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  • Tuesday, August 16th 2016 - 06:29 UTC

    More French towns adopt Burkinis' ban; clashes in Corsican beaches

    Cannes and the town of Villeneuve-Loubet also recently banned the burkini. Critics say the bans are discriminatory and could worsen tensions.

    A French court has rejected a demand by a group of French Muslims in Cannes to overturn a ban on full-body, head-covering swimwear on city beaches. A lawyer for the Collective Against Islamophobia in France said after the decision Saturday by a court in nearby Nice that he would lodge an appeal with the Council of State, the highest administrative body in France.

  • Tuesday, August 16th 2016 - 06:17 UTC

    Chinese woman falls overboard from cruise vessel and is rescued 38 hours later

    Ms Fan reportedly fell from the fourth deck, the approximate height of a seven-floor building. The 31-year-old survived the ordeal with only minor injuries

    Chinese woman who fell off a cruise ship and drifted at sea for 38 hours before being rescued by fishermen has lived to tell the tale. The woman from Shanghai, known only by her surname Fan, leaned too far forward from a ship deck and fell overboard, according to Chinese media.

  • Tuesday, August 16th 2016 - 06:11 UTC

    British Airways cuts its food service on flights less than eight and a half hours

    Spaniard Alex Cruz, 50, took over as CEO and chairman of BA in April this year, having started his career with American Airlines 1995.

    British Airways has cut its food service and will no longer provide two meals to economy travelers on flights lasting less than eight-and-a-half hours. Instead of two full meals, passengers will only receive one as part of the new measures, which also apply to journeys lasting less seven hours for premium economy passengers.

  • Monday, August 15th 2016 - 13:34 UTC

    New Zealand track Rockhopper penguins 15.000 km winter journeys

    It's hoped the study will help determine why Rockhopper numbers on New Zealand's Campbell Island have plummeted.

    Two species of sub-Antarctic penguin have surprised scientists in New Zealand by travelling up to 15,000km during six months spent at sea. Researchers tagged 90 Rockhopper and Snares crested penguins to find out where they go during the southern hemisphere's winter, and were astonished by the birds' long-distance journeys, the New Zealand Herald reports.

  • Monday, August 15th 2016 - 07:09 UTC

    Mercosur-India talks expected to expand preferential trade agreement

    “We are largely interested in exporting processed foods and electronics to Mercosur”, said Sachin Chaturvedi, head at the Ministry of External Affairs

    India has begun the process of expanding its preferential trade agreement with the Mercosur trade bloc, opening its market more to South America and negotiations are expected to start in a month or two. The number of products on which tariff concessions is given is likely to increase to more than 3,000 from 450 at present with more agricultural products getting covered in the pact.

  • Monday, August 15th 2016 - 06:39 UTC

    Falklands/Malvinas: Malcorra confirms new dialogue with UK in a raft of issues

    “We have a relation with the UK that goes beyond the Malvinas issue” but also a deep disagreement and president Macri has told this to ex PM David Cameron

    Argentina is at the beginning of a new dialogue on the Malvinas issue with the current UK government and this includes air links, hydrocarbons, identifying Argentine graves remains in Falklands, a possible meeting of the two countries' leaders in China, but none of this will happen overnight or make media headlines, anticipated foreign minister Susana Malcorra.

  • Thursday, August 11th 2016 - 17:53 UTC

    Falklands discards air links with Argentina and iterates London pledge to support hydrocarbons development

    A copy of the letter sent by PM Theresa May to president Mauricio Macri as reported in the Argentine press

    The Falkland Islands government has made a public statement pointing out that the UK Government has been open and transparent with FIG about how it would like to improve the bilateral relationship with Argentina but ”has made it clear that this will not include negotiations on the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands.”

  • Thursday, August 11th 2016 - 04:52 UTC

    Falklands air links and oil talks between UK and Argentina confirmed by Malcorra

    Malcorra in a press conference confirmed that she discussed the issues of air links and oil with Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond in London

    Foreign minister Susana Malcorra confirmed on Wednesday that Argentina and the United Kingdom are holding talks, “moving to a more productive phase” which includes making progress towards new “air links between the Falkland Islands and third countries” plus the removal of “restrictive hydrocarbons measures”.

  • Wednesday, August 10th 2016 - 05:42 UTC

    Stress tests expose weakness of EU banks, particularly Deutsche Bank

    “European banks lack sufficient capital to offset the losses expected in the case of another financial crisis,” the ZEW said in a statement on Tuesday.

    Germany's Deutsche Bank had the highest potential capital shortfall, 19 billion Euros in a study of 51 European banks using U.S. Federal Reserve stress test methods, German economic research institute ZEW said.

  • Wednesday, August 10th 2016 - 03:49 UTC

    UK with a Great Pavilion will be present at Uruguay's main agriculture show

    One of the highlights of this year will be the focus on agricultural technology with a series of lectures by British and Uruguayan experts.

    With just a month to go until Uruguay's main agro show, Expo Prado, the British Embassy in Montevideo announces that for the third consecutive year it will be present with a Great Pavilion focused on business, education, culture, tourism, gastronomy and entertainment. British brands such as JCB Machinery, Polo Club clothing, FCR-DAS who specialise in quality management certification, fire extinguishers from Noblex, Brompton and other bicycles courtesy of Muvin will all be taking part.