International

• Tuesday, June 28th 2016 - 06:13 UTC

  Suspended sentence for campaigner who unfurled a Spanish flag in Gibraltar

  

  The right-wing campaigner who helped unfurl a giant Spanish flag on the Upper Rock of Gibraltar has been released from custody after being handed a suspended sentence. Juan Ignacio Mínguez Martinez, 53, from Madrid, had admitted participating in the ‘politically motivated’ stunt and pleaded guilty last Wednesday to a charge of conduct likely to cause a breach of the peace.

• Monday, June 27th 2016 - 10:06 UTC

  UK ready to face the future from a position of strength, says Chancellor Osborne

  

  Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne has said the UK is ready to face the future “from a position of strength” and indicated there will be no immediate emergency Budget. However he admitted there would still need to be an “adjustment” in the UK economy, and it was “perfectly sensible to wait for a new prime minister” before taking any such action.

• Monday, June 27th 2016 - 08:07 UTC

  Berlin and Paris in “full agreement”; Merkel aide says politicians in London should take time to reconsider Brexit

  

  German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande said on Sunday they are in “full agreement” on how to handle the fallout from the UK's decision to leave the European Union. Hollande warned that “separated, we run the risk of divisions, dissension and quarrels”.

• Monday, June 27th 2016 - 06:38 UTC

  UK Labour party in disarray: fears or a party divide and great losses in the event of a snap election

  

  United Kingdom Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has said he will stand in any new leadership election following the resignations of a string of shadow cabinet colleagues. Shadow Commons leader Chris Bryant was the latest person to resign in protest at Corbyn's leadership over the EU referendum - and more are expected.

• Monday, June 27th 2016 - 06:27 UTC

  Rajoy wins Sunday elections, but Spain remains blocked; coalition talks begin Monday

  

  The conservative Popular Party of Mariano Rajoy, Spain's caretaker prime minister, won the most votes in Spain’s repeat national elections on Sunday, while the Socialists held off a challenge from the Podemos Party to remain the largest left-wing formation. The fragmented result, however, did not settle who will form the country’s next government.

• Saturday, June 25th 2016 - 21:29 UTC

  Picasso's seminal cubist “Femme Assise” auctioned at £ 43.2 million in London

  

  “Femme Assise” (1909), one of Pablo Picasso's earliest Cubist paintings, has sold for £43.2 million (US$63.4 million) at a Sotheby's London auction. Described by Sotheby's as “the greatest Cubist painting to come to the market in decades,” it has broken the record for the highest price for a cubist work at any auction.

• Saturday, June 25th 2016 - 20:30 UTC

  Beijing sinking because of excessive pumping of groundwater: 11cms per year

  

  China’s capital is known for its horrendous smog and occasional sandstorms. Yet one of its major environmental threats lies underground: Beijing is sinking. Excessive pumping of groundwater is causing the geology under the city to collapse, according to a new study using satellite imagery that reveals parts of Beijing – particularly its central business district – are subsiding each year by as much as 11 centimeters.

• Saturday, June 25th 2016 - 11:59 UTC

  Corbyn's leadership questioned: Labour MPs submit no confidence motion

  

  A motion of no confidence in Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has been submitted by two Labour MPs. Dame Margaret Hodge has submitted a motion - seconded by backbencher Ann Coffey - to the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP), her office said.

• Saturday, June 25th 2016 - 11:52 UTC

  Northern Ireland calls for a referendum on a united Ireland

  

  Northern Ireland’s Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness called for a referendum on a united Ireland shortly after the UK voted to leave the European Union.

• Saturday, June 25th 2016 - 11:34 UTC

  Ambassador Lyster-Binns confident the UK economy is large and strong

  

  United Kingdom´s Leave victory did not come as a great surprise, since the race was too tight, but that was the decision of the people and the economy is large and strong, admitted British ambassador in Uruguay, Ben Lyster-Binns, in a television interview.