International

• Monday, November 18th 2019 - 09:12 UTC

  Fifteen countries including Brazil, asking for trade compensations from UK/EU Brexit disruption

  

  Countries including Australia have asked for trade compensation from the UK and the EU over Brexit disruption. Fifteen countries, including the US, India and New Zealand, have been setting out Brexit concerns at a World Trade Organization (WTO) meeting in Geneva.

• Monday, November 18th 2019 - 09:08 UTC

  Third tidal “tsunami” keeps Venice under water; incessant rain also threatens Pisa and Florence

  

  Venice's St Mark's Square was closed on Sunday as the historic city suffered its third major flooding in less than a week, while rain lashing the rest of Italy prompted warnings in Florence and Pisa.

• Sunday, November 17th 2019 - 07:52 UTC

  Repression, use of force risk worsening Bolivia crisis: UN human rights chief

  

  The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights is urging authorities in Bolivia to ensure security forces comply with international standards on the use of force following the deaths of at least five protestors on Friday.

• Saturday, November 16th 2019 - 09:56 UTC

  Air links between Falklands and the continent have been operating since 1999

  

  The head of Argentina's Civil Aviation Administration, ANAC, said the office will “collaborate with Justice in all necessary aspects referred to the coming weekly flight between Malvinas Islands and Brazil, with a stopover at Cordoba, once a month”.

• Saturday, November 16th 2019 - 09:51 UTC

  Falklands' seabed mapping surveys undertaken by UK Hydrographic Office

  

  This month the UK Hydrographic Office will be conducting seabed mapping surveys to support safe maritime trade and the development of a sustainable blue economy.

• Saturday, November 16th 2019 - 08:34 UTC

  First Falklands' fishing company signs the 51% Joint Venture shareholding under the new ITQ criteria

  

  Ahead of the Falkland Islands Government Executive Committee decision recently setting out new criteria for Individual Transferable Quota (ITQ) extensions from 2021 to 2046 Beauchene Fishing Co Ltd and Copemar S.A signed a new Joint Venture agreement to commence from 2021.

• Friday, November 15th 2019 - 09:48 UTC

  Bolsonaro: Brazil trades with all the world and will stay out of the US/China dispute

  

  Brazil will not get involved in a trade war, President Jair Bolsonaro said on Thursday, after US-foes China and Russia criticized growing protectionism as the global economy slows. Bolsonaro, who has been walking a diplomatic tightrope at the BRICS summit in Brazil this week as he seeks to strengthen ties with China without upsetting key ally Donald Trump, said Brazil “trades with the entire world.”

• Friday, November 15th 2019 - 09:45 UTC

  Germany and Brazil renew nuclear cooperation agreement; third nuclear plant to be built by 2026

  

  Germany's parliament, the Bundestag, on Thursday ignored pleas from the Green party to scrap a nuclear agreement with Brazil. “Our cooperation in this area has worked well for decades,” Parliamentary State Secretary for the Environment Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter of the center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) said. “There are currently no plans to cancel the agreement.”

• Friday, November 15th 2019 - 09:42 UTC

  BRICS summit condemns protectionism and pledges to overcome challenges faced by multilateralism

  

  Five of the biggest emerging economies railed against protectionism on Thursday as they vowed to overcome “significant challenges” facing multilateralism, in a swipe at US tariffs and unilateral action.

• Friday, November 15th 2019 - 09:30 UTC

  UN chief Guterres sends Personal Envoy Jean Arnault to Bolivia

  

  United Nations chief Antonio Guterres announced on Thursday that he ha appointed a Personal Envoy who would be travelling to Bolivia to offer support to national leaders, following the departure of former president Evo Morales.