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  • Thursday, November 3rd 2016 - 17:52 UTC

    Remembrance Day in Uruguay on Friday 11 November

    Remembrance Day is observed on 11 November to recall the end of hostilities of World War I on that date in 1918, “at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month”

    Friday November 11 is Remembrance Day (Poppy Day) and the event will be recalled in Uruguay with a brief service at the British Cemetery, November 11th, at 11:00 am, and a Remembrance Sunday Service will take place on Sunday 13 November at 10:30 am, at the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity (Templo Inglés).

  • Thursday, November 3rd 2016 - 17:27 UTC

    England and Scotland players defy FIFA and will wear poppies on black armbands

    “The FA intend to pay appropriate tribute to those who have made the ultimate sacrifice by having the England team wear black armbands bearing poppies in our fixture on Armistice Day.”

    England and Scotland's footballers will defy the sport's global governing body and wear black armbands bearing poppies in their 11 November match. The FA and SFA have rejected FIFA's ban on poppies being displayed on the pitch for the World Cup Armistice Day qualifier. The ruling by football's world governing body was earlier described by the Prime Minister as “utterly outrageous”.

  • Thursday, November 3rd 2016 - 17:19 UTC

    Blow for PM May: High Court rules Parliament must approve Brexit process

    Calling the case “a pure question of law”, Lord Thomas said: “The court is not concerned with and does not express any view about the merits of leaving the European Union: that is a political issue.”

    British government’s plan for leaving the European Union was thrown into uncertainty on Thursday after the High Court ruled that Parliament must give its approval before the process can begin. The court’s decision seemed likely to slow — but not halt — the British withdrawal from the bloc, a step approved by nearly 52% of voters in a June referendum.

  • Thursday, November 3rd 2016 - 10:20 UTC

    Big Danger at the Lower Bound

    Fed chair Janet Yellen tried to reassure markets but most economists are skeptical that the Fed’s unconventional policy tools are nearly so effective.

    By Kenneth Rogoff

    Markets nowadays are fixated on how high the US Federal Reserve will raise interest rates in the next 12 months. This is dangerously shortsighted: the real concern ought to be how far it could cut rates in the next deep recession. Given that the Fed may struggle just to get its base interest rate up to 2% over the coming year, there will be very little room to cut if a recession hits.

  • Thursday, November 3rd 2016 - 08:21 UTC

    Identification of Argentine soldiers' remains in Falklands: Geneva meeting in December

    There is a consensus among the Falklands, London and Buenos Aires that the best time for the forensic identification are the coming summer austral months

    Argentine and British diplomats will be meeting next 10 December in Geneva with the Red Cross to advance in the identification of the remains of 123 Argentine combatants buried at Darwin cemetery in the Falkland islands since 1982.

  • Thursday, November 3rd 2016 - 08:05 UTC

    European lawmakers in Argentina to boost EU/Mercosur trade talks

    “We will never reach any trade accord, unless we are not willing to face the domestic resistances, be it in Europe or in Mercosur”, said MEP Assis

    A European Union parliament delegation of fourteen lawmakers is in Buenos Aires to prop Mercosur/EU trade talks, and even admitting there has been advances, and prospects are encouraging, they also acknowledged that many objections from both sides persist.

  • Wednesday, November 2nd 2016 - 19:46 UTC

    Prefecture of the Falklands has new Apostolic Administrator, Fr. Hugh Allan

    The new Abbot Allan will support Fr John Wisdom o.praem, the priest who has ministered to the 230 Catholics on the Falklands since August 2015

    The Prefect for the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, Cardinal Fernando Filoni, has appointed Fr Hugh Allan OPraem, Prior of Norbertine Community of St Philip's Priory, Chelmsford, as the new Apostolic Administrator of the Prefecture of the Falkland Islands and Ecclesiastical Superior of the Missions sui iuris of the islands of Ascension, St Helena and Tristan da Cunha ad quinquennium (for a period of five years).

  • Wednesday, November 2nd 2016 - 19:27 UTC

    As expected Fed leaves rates unchanged, but the real game begins in December

    Fed chairwoman Janet Yellen has been repeatedly criticized by Republican candidate Donald Trump

    The Federal Reserve, on Wednesday following a two-day meeting, and with two members dissenting, left interest rates unchanged but anticipated the FOMC “judges that the case for an increase in the federal funds rate has continued to strengthen, but decided, for the time being, to wait for some further evidence of continued progress toward its objectives”.

  • Wednesday, November 2nd 2016 - 14:19 UTC

    EU and Canada sign free trade accord, but has to clear 40 European parliaments

    Canadian PM Justin Trudeau signed the treaty along with heads of EU institutions, a step that should enable a provisional implementation of the pact early in 2017.

    The European Union and Canada signed a free trade agreement on Sunday that aims to generate jobs and growth though it must still clear some 40 national and regional parliaments in Europe in the coming years to enter fully into force.

  • Wednesday, November 2nd 2016 - 11:05 UTC

    Portugal pledges in Brazil to promote Mercosur/EU trade agreement

    “Portugal can become another strong voice in the EU to help make possible this trade agreement the soonest possible”, said Temer

    Brazilian president Michel Temer said that Portugal and Spain are determined to help speed trade negotiations between Mercosur and the European Union. Temer made the announcement on hosting Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa who was on a brief visit to Brazil for the Community of Portuguese Language Countries summit in Brasilia.