International

• Thursday, July 21st 2016 - 07:29 UTC

  Brazil leaves rate unchanged at 14.25%; stubborn inflation despite recession

  

  Brazil's central bank, with its recently appointed president, kept interest rates on hold for the eighth consecutive meeting on Wednesday as expected, despite a deep recession, as the new board cited concern about stubbornly high inflation and uncertainty surrounding economic reforms.

• Thursday, July 21st 2016 - 07:20 UTC

  Gibraltar begins domestic round of assessment to determine impact of no access to EU membership

  

  The Gibraltar government has started an assessment to determine the impact of not having access to membership of the European Union and of the consequences of an exit. The assessment will look at every area of government business with Chief Minister Fabian Picardo asking all ministers to look at every sphere of their ministerial responsibilities and report back to him and to the Deputy Chief Minister by the end of August.

• Thursday, July 21st 2016 - 07:12 UTC

  UK pledges a consultative process on Brexit between London and BOTs

  

  Leaders from the British Overseas Territories meeting in the Turks and Caicos Islands, TCI, this week heard that the UK will not forget them once it begins its negotiations to exit the European Union, according to the Caribbean media.

• Thursday, July 21st 2016 - 07:09 UTC

  Baroness Anelay new Foreign Office minister for Overseas Territories

  

  Baroness Joyce Anne Anelay is the new Foreign and Commonwealth Office Minister for the British Overseas Territories. On 19 July the UK Government announced Baroness Anelay’s appointment in the Theresa May-led administration. She replaces James Duddridge.

• Wednesday, July 20th 2016 - 05:25 UTC

  Falklands must be involved in a tripartite dialogue, if Argentina's new policy is to be positive

  

  Argentina's collaboration strategy towards the UK and the Falkland Islands, if it means integrating the Islanders in any discussions relative to their lives and future, which is only of their concern, “this is positive”, according to Gibraltar Chief Minister Fabian Picardo, interviewed by Argentina's official news agency Telam.

• Wednesday, July 20th 2016 - 03:56 UTC

  Theresa May begins tour of European capitals: Wednesday with Merkel, Thursday with Hollande

  

  British Prime Minister Theresa May on Wednesday will take off for her first tour of European capitals visiting Germany and France where she anticipated discussions about the UK leaving the EU must be “frank and open”. The prime minister will have a working dinner with Germany's Angela Merkel on Wednesday before talks with France's Francois Hollande on Thursday.

• Wednesday, July 20th 2016 - 03:50 UTC

  Rajoy closer to forming a coalition; ally gets speaker's job defeating Socialists

  

  Lawmakers on Tuesday picked a close ally of Mariano Rajoy as parliamentary speaker as Spain's acting prime minister cast around for coalition partners following last month's inconclusive general election. Public Works Minister Anta Pastor, 58, got the speaker's job under a deal between Rajoy's conservative Popular Party (PP) and market-friendly upstarts Ciudadanos, who came in fourth in the June 26 polls.

• Wednesday, July 20th 2016 - 03:47 UTC

  García Margallo wants Gibraltar out of Brexit talks; insists on a face to face meeting with Johnson

  

  Caretaker Spanish Foreign Minister, Jose Manuel Garcia Margallo, says he will be raising Gibraltar with the UK’s new Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson when they meet in London ‘soon’. The two had a fleeting encounter at a Brussels Summit on Monday during which the Gibraltar issue was mentioned briefly.

• Tuesday, July 19th 2016 - 06:44 UTC

  Argentine Jewish community demand investigation of the “local connection” in the 1994 AMIA terrorist attack

  

  Argentine President Mauricio Macri, together with members of the government and civil organizations attended on Monday in Buenos Aires the main ceremony commemorating the attack on the headquarters of the AMIA Jewish community organization in 1994, a crime that so far has gone unpunished.

• Tuesday, July 19th 2016 - 06:40 UTC

  Uruguay could compete for another pulp mill, if it develops logistics infrastructure

  

  Finland´s UPM pulp conglomerate which already has a plant in Uruguay announced it will commence discussions with the Uruguayan government on the development of logistics infrastructure for a possible mounting of another mill. Discussions will include railroad and roads, which currently are a critical challenge to establish large scale industrial operation in the Uruguayan inland and to connect it to a deep sea port.