International

• Sunday, February 26th 2017 - 09:19 UTC

  Argentine-Chilean Antarctic inspectors check BAS Rothera base

  

  A team or Argentine and Chilean experts have visited Czech and British bases in Antarctica as part of the routine inspection of environment and security operations, in the framework of the Antarctic Treaty. The Argentine foreign ministry reported that the inspections took place for the second consecutive year between 19 January and 25 February.

• Saturday, February 25th 2017 - 11:30 UTC

  Pope Francis defends indigenous peoples' rights to their ancestral lands

  

  Pope Francis insisted that indigenous groups must give prior consent to any economic activity affecting their ancestral lands, a view that conflict with the Trump administration, which is pushing to build a US$3.8bn oil pipeline over opposition from American Indians.

• Saturday, February 25th 2017 - 11:23 UTC

  Cuba denies visas to OAS chief, ex Mexican president and ex Chilean minister

  

  The Organization of American States Secretary-General Luis Almagro said Wednesday that the Cuban government denied him permission to enter the island to receive a human rights prize created to honor late dissident Oswaldo Paya. Mexican ex-President Felipe Calderon and former Chilean Education Minister Maria Aylwin were denied entry to the island the day before.

• Saturday, February 25th 2017 - 10:52 UTC

  Futuristic €450 million yacht freed from arrest in Gibraltar; heads for Cartagena

  

  The futuristic €450 million yacht at the centre of a €15.3m legal wrangle has been freed from admiralty arrest and sailed from Gibraltar early Wednesday morning. Sailing Yacht A weighed anchor at around 8.30am and sailed from the Bay of Gibraltar in rough seas bound for the Mediterranean, reports the Gibraltar Chronicle.

• Saturday, February 25th 2017 - 10:32 UTC

  EC president Juncker remembers UK's Brexit includes a “very salty” exit bill

  

  A future relationship between Britain and the European Union will take years to negotiate and the UK can expect a hefty bill as the price of exit, European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker has warned. Mr. Juncker said Britain must understand that it will not be able to negotiate a “cut-price or zero-cost” exit from the EU, but will have to settle the bill for commitments which it entered into as a member.

• Friday, February 24th 2017 - 15:51 UTC

  Falklands and Brexit, subjects raised by visiting MPs to the Islands

  

  The impact of Brexit on the Falkland Islands and the economy in general were subjects raised with visiting Members of Parliament this week. The delegation of four made a flying visit to the Falkland Islands last weekend accompanied by FI Representative in London Sukey Cameron.

• Thursday, February 23rd 2017 - 10:31 UTC

  Rosario and Liverpool mayors sign human rights enhancement agreement

  

  Mayors of Rosario, Argentina and Liverpool, Monica Fein and Joseph Anderson signed a human rights cooperation agreement on Wednesday in Liverpool, the first of its kind between Argentine and British cities since the 1982 conflict.

• Thursday, February 23rd 2017 - 10:20 UTC

  Argentina's Macri in state visit to Spain to attract investors

  

  Argentine president Mauricio Macri started an official state visit to Spain on Wednesday and was received with a display of full military honors of the Royal Household at the Royal Palace. Following a meeting with King Felipe, the president left for Congress where he addressed the full house.

• Wednesday, February 22nd 2017 - 19:14 UTC

  Ex Royal Marines and Falklands veterans announce dates for historic kayak adventure around the Islands

  

  After months of serious preparation we can now announce that the dates for the Cockleshell Endeavour’s Falkland Islands kayak have been set. On 12th March two former Royal Marines and Falkland’s veterans, Mick Dawson, 50, and Steve Grenham, 51, will leave the UK to embark on a historic adventure which will see them kayak around part of the Falkland Islands, visiting key military sites en route to mark 35 years since the conflict.

• Wednesday, February 22nd 2017 - 18:36 UTC

  Trump toughens immigration policy: millions could be targeted for deportation

  

  Millions of people living in the United States illegally could be targeted for deportation — including people simply arrested for traffic violations — under a sweeping rewrite of immigration enforcement policies announced Tuesday by the Trump administration.