International

• Thursday, June 23rd 2016 - 08:09 UTC

  Colombia and FARC are to sign bilateral and definitive ceasefire 23 June in Havana

  

  Colombia and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) reached an agreement on a bilateral and definitive ceasefire that will pave the way for a referendum on a peace deal between the warring parties, a senior FARC negotiator said on Wednesday.

• Thursday, June 23rd 2016 - 07:50 UTC

  Brexit referendum: race too close to call, say pollsters

  

  Minister David Cameron invoked Britain's wartime spirit in a last-ditch bid to win votes on Wednesday on the eve of a knife-edge referendum on European Union membership that has put the continent on alert.

• Thursday, June 23rd 2016 - 07:35 UTC

  Britons going to the polls for a historic referendum; results by Friday breakfast

  

  UK is set to go to the polls in a historic referendum on whether the country should remain a member of the European Union or leave. Polling stations are open between 07:00 BST and 22:00 BST. An estimated 46,499,537 people are entitled to take part in the vote - a record number for a UK poll.

• Thursday, June 23rd 2016 - 02:56 UTC

  Renewables the focus of EU Energy Week in the Falklands

  

  The Power & Electrical Department hosted an open day last week at their Sand Bay Wind Farm to showcase the work being undertaken by the Falkland Island’s Government (FIG) to utilise and promote renewable energy sources. The open day, which included guided tours and demonstrations, formed part of wider initiatives recently undertaken by FIG to address issues surrounding climate change.

• Wednesday, June 22nd 2016 - 11:36 UTC

  Gibraltar court will decide on a man who unfurled a Spanish flag in the Rock

  

  A man was arrested in connection with the unfurling of a Spanish flag in Gibraltar. The man remains in Police custody and will be appearing before the Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday morning.

• Wednesday, June 22nd 2016 - 05:40 UTC

  British Antarctic Territory marks Mid-Winter's Day

  

  The flag of the British Antarctic Territory was flying over the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on Tuesday,. 21st June to mark mid point of Antarctic winter. 21st June is Mid-Winter’s Day in the British Antarctic Territory.

• Wednesday, June 22nd 2016 - 05:20 UTC

  Swire and Ecuadorean foreign minister discuss Julian Assange's case in London

  

  UK Minister for the Americas Hugo Swire MP, met with the new Ecuadorean Foreign Minister, Guillaume Long, in London on Monday to discuss assistance in the aftermath of the deadly earthquake that struck the Andean country in April.

• Wednesday, June 22nd 2016 - 04:59 UTC

  Brexit: Investor Soros anticipates sterling would “decline precipitously”

  

  Legendary investor George Soros has warned of “serious consequences” for British jobs and finances if the country leaves the EU. Writing in The Guardian, he said sterling would “decline precipitously” if the Leave camp won Thursday's vote.

• Wednesday, June 22nd 2016 - 04:33 UTC

  Brexit: The apocalypse

  

  By Gwynne Dyer - How’s this for apocalyptic? “As a historian I fear Brexit [a British vote to leave the European Union in the referendum on June 23] could be the beginning of the destruction of not only the EU but also Western political civilization in its entirety,” said Donald Tusk, the president of the European Union, in an interview published on Monday in the German newspaper Bild.

• Tuesday, June 21st 2016 - 16:28 UTC

  Iran ready to sign US$ 17bn deal with Boeing for 100 passenger planes

  

  United States based giant aviation corporation Boeing has reached an agreement with Iran to sell the country 100 passenger planes, Iran’s aviation authority announced on Sunday.