International

• Tuesday, July 5th 2016 - 07:21 UTC

  OECD-FAO forecasts agriculture prices will remain relatively flat overall in next decade

  

  The recent period of high agricultural commodity prices is most likely over, say the OECD and FAO in their latest 10-year Outlook. But the two organizations warn of the need to be vigilant as the probability of a major price swing remains high.

• Tuesday, July 5th 2016 - 06:54 UTC

  Macri begins official visit to Germany looking for trade and investment

  

  Argentine president Mauricio Macri arrived in Berlin on Monday, in his first official trip to the country and as part of an European tour aimed at strengthening Argentina’s ties with the European Union. Macri arrived from Brussels where he met EU authorities and the day before, was in Paris with president Francois Hollande.

• Tuesday, July 5th 2016 - 06:34 UTC

  Macri insists in Brussels: “Brexit or not, our Malvinas claim will never change”

  

  Argentine president Mauricio Macri said on Monday that his country's claim to the Falkland Islands remained unchanged following Britain's vote to leave the EU. “Brexit or not, our claim will never change,” Macri told reporters in Brussels after talks with European Union leaders.

• Monday, July 4th 2016 - 10:05 UTC

  Czech president referendum proposal on EU and NATO, rattles Brussels

  

  The Czech government has no intention of holding any referendum on European Union or NATO membership, Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka's office said in a statement, a week after Britain's surprise vote to leave the bloc.

• Monday, July 4th 2016 - 09:35 UTC

  Austrian Euro-skeptic presidential candidate has a chance to turn narrow defeat into victory

  

  In a move that could turn into the next blow to the EU after Britain’s exit vote, Austria’s highest court ordered a rerun of the country’s presidential election. The landmark decision gives a right-wing candidate the chance to turn his narrow defeat into victory.

• Monday, July 4th 2016 - 09:20 UTC

  Pope Francis at peace with Macri: denies any problems, “he's a noble person”

  

  Pope Francis said he has no problems with Argentine president Mauricio Macri, whom he described as a well born, noble person, revealing that in the past, as mayor and archbishop of Buenos Aires, they had differences but always addressed them in private and positively.

• Monday, July 4th 2016 - 04:51 UTC

  Spain insists with joint sovereignty for Gibraltar, if it wants to remain in the EU

  

  Spain has said it will formally propose to the European Union that the question of Gibraltar be treated separately when it negotiates Britain’s exit. The acting Foreign Minister, José Manuel García-Margallo reminded journalists in Spain that when Britain leaves all EU treaties will stop applying to the Rock.

• Monday, July 4th 2016 - 04:27 UTC

  Chagos Islanders, forcibly removed 40 years ago, lose legal challenge to return

  

  The former residents of the Chagos Islands who were forcibly removed from their homeland more than 40 years ago have lost their legal challenge to return. Families left the Indian Ocean islands in the 1960s and 70s to make way for a US Air Force base on Diego Garcia, the largest of the group of islands.

• Saturday, July 2nd 2016 - 09:20 UTC

  Antarctic ozone hole is finally starting to heal according to study published in Science

  

  Nearly thirty years after an international treaty banned the use of chlorofluorocarbons, the Antarctic ozone hole is finally starting to heal. By mid to late century, it should be fully recovered.

• Friday, July 1st 2016 - 13:22 UTC

  UK and France mark centenary of start of the Battle of Somme, WW1 bloodiest

  

  Commemorations are being held in the UK and France to mark the centenary of the start of the Battle of the Somme. Britain fell silent to mark the moment on 1 July 1916 when the battle began and the start of the bloodiest day in British military history.