International

• Friday, November 11th 2016 - 08:57 UTC

  Seven percent more Britons traveled to Argentina this year

  

  The flow of British tourists into Argentina until August this year recorded a seven percent increase when measured against data from 2015. Ten percent rise forecast for 2017, accoring to Argentine Minister of Tourism Gustavo Santos.

• Friday, November 11th 2016 - 08:44 UTC

  Gibraltar “is part of the UK” and “we don't need any type of co-sovereignty”

  

  Gibraltar “is part of the UK” and its particular circumstances will be reflected in Britain’s exit deal from the EU, the UK’s ambassador to Spain said this week, adding that co-sovereignty was not an option. Simon Manley made the comments in a wide-ranging interview on Brexit published by La Nueva España newspaper on Wednesday.

• Friday, November 11th 2016 - 07:18 UTC

  Trump on the phone with PM May: “UK a very, very special place for me and for my country”

  

  The special relationship between the UK and the US will go from “strength to strength”, Donald Trump has told Theresa May in their first telephone call since his election. The President-elect told the Prime Minister the UK was a “very, very special place for me and for our country”. He set out his “close and personal connections with, and warmth for, the UK”, according to a Downing Street spokesman. Mrs. May stressed the importance of Britain's relationship with the US in the wake of the Brexit vote.

• Thursday, November 10th 2016 - 19:02 UTC

  UN Consensus “does not change anything about Gibraltar’s British sovereignty”

  

  The Gibraltar government has reacted to a United Nations Consensus Decision about Gibraltar agreed between the United Kingdom and Spain during the annual event claiming it “changes nothing in relation to the continued British Sovereignty over Gibraltar”.

• Thursday, November 10th 2016 - 12:08 UTC

  IMF lifts motion of censure on Argentina for manipulating data

  

  The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Wednesday lifted the censure motion that weighed on the country since 2013, when it decided to sanction Argentina because it considered that statistics at the National Census' Institute (Indec) were being manipulated.

• Thursday, November 10th 2016 - 11:20 UTC

  HMS Protector opens 2016/17 season in South Georgia surveying 160 sq miles of seabed

  

  Having spent last Antarctic summer celebrating the deeds of one British polar hero, the crew of Royal Navy icebreaker HMS Protector have opened the 2016-17 survey season honoring his rival. A century after Sir Ernest Shackleton landed at King Haakon Bay on South Georgia in a makeshift lifeboat – the James Caird – Protector entered the same fjord and sent her hi-tech survey launch – the James Caird IV – close to the identical spot.

• Thursday, November 10th 2016 - 11:04 UTC

  PM May congratulates Trump and looks forward to working with him

  

  Prime Minister Theresa May has led UK political congratulations for Donald Trump after his US election victory. The PM said Britain and the US had an “enduring and special relationship” and would remain close partners on trade, security and defense.

• Thursday, November 10th 2016 - 08:11 UTC

  Malvinas is no impediment for dealing with UK, but “Islands population can't be denied”

  

  The Malvinas sovereignty dispute should not be an impediment to advance in a pro-active agenda with the United Kingdom, and to progress in agreements to attract investors to Argentina, said foreign minister Susana Malcorra, who also admitted that it's not possible to deny the existence of the Malvinas inhabitants, “of which we have been distanced for too long”.

• Wednesday, November 9th 2016 - 17:02 UTC

  In Rome, Pepe Mujica cries “Help!” as Trump wins election

  

  The former Uruguayan President came up with “a word that says it all: Help!” during a radio interview. Tabaré Vázquez to wait for official results to be released.Former Uruguayan President Jose Mujica, in Rome to attend the third World Meeting of Popular Movements made those remarks during a radio appearance. Mujica had expressed his preference for Hillary Clinton.

• Wednesday, November 9th 2016 - 15:42 UTC

  Preconceptions, misconceptions and experts that fail to see reality

  

  Explaining the not so quite unexplainable. Donald Trump's victory by a convincing margin left all those so called analysts who had foreseen his defeat as inevitable trying to find out how they had so spectacularly misread the world. The role of mass media under fire.