International

• Thursday, August 15th 2019 - 06:10 UTC

  Gibraltar ready to release Iranian oil tanker seized in July

  

  The British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar will on Thursday release an Iranian oil tanker seized by Royal Marines in the Mediterranean in July, the Sun newspaper reported, citing sources close to Gibraltar Chief Minister Fabian Picardo.

• Thursday, August 15th 2019 - 05:14 UTC

  Falklands/UK airbridge will continue via Cape Verde; Ascension runway may not be repaired until 2022

  

  The contract to repair the 3,000-meter runway at RAF Ascension Island has yet to be awarded, and work may not be complete until 2022. It has been partially closed since April 2017. This means the Falkland Islands/Brize Norton airbridge will continue to operate through Cape Verde.

• Wednesday, August 14th 2019 - 19:15 UTC

  US tech companies seek protection from French government services tax

  

  Alphabet Inc's Google unit, Facebook Inc and Amazon.com Inc are among the companies that will testify at a U.S. government hearing on the French government's digital services tax.

• Wednesday, August 14th 2019 - 09:40 UTC

  French farmers protest trade deals with Canada and Mercosur

  

  French anti-government protesters put up a large poster of Jean-Baptiste Moreau, one of President Emmanuel Macron's farming experts, with the word “Wanted” on it outside a local government building on Tuesday, as anger over recent trade deals escalates.

• Wednesday, August 14th 2019 - 09:39 UTC

  Trump threatens to pull the US out of WTO: “they have been screwing us for years”

  

  President Donald Trump threatened on Tuesday to pull the United States out of the World Trade Organization (WTO) if conditions are not improved. “We will leave if we have to,” Trump told a cheering audience of workers at a Shell chemical plant in Pennsylvania.

• Wednesday, August 14th 2019 - 08:49 UTC

  FBI seeks to question Al-Qaeda suspect living in Brazil as legal resident

  

  The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is seeking to question an alleged Egyptian Al-Qaeda operative believed to be living in Brazil, and the South American country has pledged to cooperate with the United States in any way it can.

• Tuesday, August 13th 2019 - 07:16 UTC

  Brazil does not need German funds to sustain Amazon forests, claims Bolsonaro

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro dismissed the importance of Germany's funding of sustainability projects in the country's forests, as the European nation weighed withdrawing from the region.

• Tuesday, August 13th 2019 - 07:11 UTC

  China anticipates less corn imports because of outbreaks of African swine fever

  

  China's agriculture ministry said it was lowering its forecast for corn consumption in the 2019/20 crop year amid outbreaks of African swine fever across the country.

• Tuesday, August 13th 2019 - 06:30 UTC

  US/China trade war and the Argentine situation impacts on Brazil's central bank policy of lower interest rates

  

  Brazil’s central bank will have to weigh potential price pressures from the U.S.-China trade war against prospects of a disappointing recovery when determining how long its easing cycle will last.

• Monday, August 12th 2019 - 07:35 UTC

  Fierce leopard seals pack to feast on King penguins (*)

  

  Some people don’t like sharing their food – we all have a friend who gets cranky when you steal a chip from their plate. For wild animals, this makes sense, because any food shared is energy lost that could otherwise have been used to pursue more food.