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International

  • Thursday, January 30th 2020 - 11:30 UTC

    Brexit approved: What about travel to the UK?

    The travel and tourism industry in the UK and the rest of the European Union has been bracing for this moment. The UK formally will leave the European Union (EU) at 23:00 on Friday, 31 January. However, the UK will immediately enter an 11-month transition period. Flights, boats and trains will operate as usual.

  • Thursday, January 30th 2020 - 08:59 UTC

    Argentina/Falklands fisheries talks: what happened and what can be expected

    On Monday 20 January, the South Atlantic Scientific Committee was scheduled to meet in Buenos Aires, one of the regular meetings agreed

    Last week there was intense diplomatic activity regarding the Falkland Islands: the meeting of the Fisheries Subcommittee to be held in Buenos Aires on Monday 20 was suspended; the ambassadors before Great Britain and before the international organizations in Geneva, Renato Sersale di Cerisano and Carlos Foradori, were displaced and the secretary of Matters Related to the Falkland Islands, Daniel Filmus, made his presentation in New York in the Decolonization Committee, urging that a negotiation instance be promoted from the UN.

  • Thursday, January 30th 2020 - 08:45 UTC

    UK plans to end automatic rights for EU vessels to fish in British waters

    The new Fisheries Bill will enable UK to create a sustainable, profitable fishing industry for ”our coastal communities, whilst securing the long term health of British fisheries,” Environment Secreta

    Boris Johnson's government plans to reclaim control over British fisheries with a law allowing the U.K. to decide who can fish in its waters and on what terms. The legislation to be published this week will end current automatic rights for European Union vessels to fish in British waters, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said in an emailed statement.

  • Thursday, January 30th 2020 - 08:44 UTC

    Margaret Thatcher’s secret dealings with the Argentine military junta that invaded the Falklands

    Both Thatcher’s government and the Labour governments of Harold Wilson and James Callaghan (1974-79) sold arms to the Argentine dictatorship.

    By Grace Livingstone (*) – Former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher is often lauded in the UK for standing up to the Argentine military junta during the Falklands War, but declassified British documents show that her government had far more cordial relations with this regime than her wartime rhetoric suggests. The following article was published by Daily Maverick, a South African online newspaper.

  • Thursday, January 30th 2020 - 08:35 UTC

    EU Parliament approves UK departure in an emotional session

    Some UK representatives, directly elected by voters who increasingly fell out of love with Europe, hailed their moment of freedom, waved the Union Flag and cheered

    Squeezed between an argument over what to call its transport strategy and a debate on the coronavirus, the European Parliament voted overwhelmingly in favor of Britain's orderly departure from the European Union. It was an anti-climactic way to issue the UK's last rites.

  • Thursday, January 30th 2020 - 08:33 UTC

    Scientists surprised at unusual temperature at the base of huge glacier in Antarctica

    The researchers, working on the Thwaites Glacier, recorded water temperatures at the base of the ice of more than 2 deg C, above the normal freezing point.

    Scientists in Antarctica have recorded, for the first time, unusually warm water beneath a glacier the size of Florida that is already melting and contributing to a rise in sea levels. The researchers, working on the Thwaites Glacier, recorded water temperatures at the base of the ice of more than 2 deg C, above the normal freezing point.

  • Thursday, January 30th 2020 - 08:24 UTC

    IMF positively cautious about Argentina's public policies prospects

    Dealings with the IMF are key as Argentina hopes to avoid a default amid a currency crash, steep inflation and a contracting economy

    Greater certainty around Argentina’s public policies could help reactivate growth and investments in the recession-hit country, the International Monetary Fund said on Wednesday.

  • Thursday, January 30th 2020 - 08:19 UTC

    Falklands hosting Red Ensign Group Conference in February

    The event is being supported by the Falkland Islands Government, and the Red Ensign will fly at Victory Green during the Conference.

    More than 50 maritime professionals from across the Overseas Territories, Crown Dependencies and the UK are coming to the Falkland Islands for the Red Ensign Group Conference.

  • Thursday, January 30th 2020 - 08:09 UTC

    The political responsibility of Beijing in the spread of the coronavirus

    Health authorities in Wuhan, the city of 11 million where the virus first appeared, spotted it Dec. 31, when only a few dozen cases had come to their attention

    By Gwynne Dyer – In an emergency, the good thing about a dictatorship is it can respond very fast. The bad thing is it won’t respond at all until the dictator-in-chief says it should. All the little dictators who flourish in this sort of system won’t risk their positions by passing bad news up the line until the risk of being blamed for delay outweighs the risk of being blamed for the emergency in the first place.

  • Thursday, January 30th 2020 - 08:05 UTC

    BBC announces drastic cut in news division staff and new “story led” model

    “We need to reshape BBC News for the next decade in a way which saves substantial amounts of money,” said Fran Unsworth, director of news

    The BBC said on Wednesday it will cut around 450 jobs from its news division as part of an £80 million (US$103 million) savings drive and modernization program. The corporation said it would reorganize its newsroom along a “story-led” model where staff will be assigned to stories and not attached to individual programs.