International

Wednesday, October 4th 2017 - 08:09 UTC
Good Friday agreement must not be damaged by Brexit, says EU parliament coordinator

European Parliament's Brexit coordinator has said he got a “shock” on his recent visit to Belfast when he saw the city's peace walls. Guy Verhofstadt described Northern Ireland as having a “frozen conflict”, and said the Good Friday Agreement must not be damaged by Brexit.
Wednesday, October 4th 2017 - 08:02 UTC
“Working class tantrum towards immigration” spurred the Leave vote and Brexit

One of the reasons for the Brexit vote was working class voters throwing “a bit of a tantrum” over immigration, UK government minister Sir Alan Duncan claimed before an audience in Chicago. He said the campaign had “stirred up a lot of sentiment” about migration among people who do not usually vote.
Wednesday, October 4th 2017 - 07:40 UTC
Boris Johnson tells Tories, “let the British lion roar” and praised Theresa May's leadership

Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has said it is time to “let the British lion roar” as he called for Brexit to be a moment of national renewal. Addressing Tory activists he said the UK “can win the future” and should stop treating the referendum result as if it were “plague of boils”.
Wednesday, October 4th 2017 - 07:02 UTC
Catalonia expected to declare independence in matter of days; King says situation is extremely serious and calls for unity

Catalonia will declare independence from Spain in a matter of days, the leader of the autonomous region has told the BBC. In his first interview since Sunday's referendum, Carles Puigdemont said his government would “act at the end of this week or the beginning of next”.
Tuesday, October 3rd 2017 - 21:31 UTC
Nobel Prize in Medicine for three US scientists work on the body's daily rhythms

Three United States scientists have won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The three were recognized for their work on the body’s daily rhythms -- the biological processes that our bodies repeat over and over again.
Tuesday, October 3rd 2017 - 07:50 UTC
Monarch collapse and ''rescuing'' 100.000 tourists will cost about £60m

Flights returning 110,000 holidaymakers from overseas after Monarch's collapse will cost about £60m, according to the UK airline regulator. Transport Secretary Chris Grayling has called the flights the UK's biggest repatriation exercise in peacetime.
Tuesday, October 3rd 2017 - 07:43 UTC
Hammond challenges Labour “dinosaurs” to a great clash of ideas over the future of capitalism

The Conservatives must take on and defeat Labour “dinosaurs” in a great “clash of ideas” over the future of capitalism, Philip Hammond has said, adding that activists must expose Jeremy Corbyn's “back to the future socialist fantasy” which was leading people “down a dangerous path”.
Monday, October 2nd 2017 - 18:28 UTC
Catalonia wants “a new understanding with the Spanish state”; EC supports Rajoy, an “internal matter”

Catalan President Carles Puigdemont has said he is not planning a “traumatic” split with Spain, after a disputed independence referendum on Sunday. He said he wanted a new understanding with the central government in Madrid.
Monday, October 2nd 2017 - 17:38 UTC
Paddock's family “completely dumbfounded”. Nevada does not require firearms owners to have licenses or register them

The suspected gunman behind the Las Vegas massacre made several large gambling transactions in recent weeks, according to law enforcement officials. The transactions by Stephen Paddock were in the tens of thousands in Las Vegas, the officials said. It was not immediately clear if those transactions were losses or wins.
Monday, October 2nd 2017 - 17:33 UTC
Madness in Las Vegas: “Lone wolf” kills and injures 580; Trump calls it “an act of pure evil”

At least 58 people have been killed and more than five hundreds injured in a mass shooting at a Las Vegas concert. A gunman, named as 64-year-old Nevada resident Stephen Paddock, opened fire from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel towards an open-air music festival attended by 22,000.