Politics

• Friday, September 27th 2019 - 09:51 UTC

  Twenty countries sign an agreement to stop spread of fake news

  

  Twenty countries, including France, Britain, and India, signed an agreement at the UN on Thursday that aims to stop the spread of fake news online. The signatories, which also included South Africa and Canada, committed to promoting “independently reported, diverse and reliable” information on the internet, under an accord initiated by Reporters Without Borders (RSF), a press freedom watchdog.

• Friday, September 27th 2019 - 09:48 UTC

  LGBT themed stage show fear subtle censorship of the Bolsonaro administration

  

  After a state-run theater in Brazil suddenly dropped his LGBT-themed stage show “Gritos,” Artur Ribeiro began to worry it was curtains for his company under President Jair Bolsonaro. Ribeiro said the Caixa Cultural theater in the capital of Brasilia last week canceled the show, in which he plays a transgender character.

• Friday, September 27th 2019 - 09:38 UTC

  Falkland’s delegates successful round of contacts at Labour Party conference

  

  A delegation of Falkland Islands' lawmakers and staff are attending the annual round of UK political parties’ conferences. This week was the turn of the Labour Party which met at Brighton

• Friday, September 27th 2019 - 09:24 UTC

  France comes together to pay tribute to ex president Jacques Chirac

  

  Former French president Jacques Chirac, a colossal figure in France's politics for three decades, has died at the age of 86, his family said on Thursday. He was 86. The centre-right Chirac rose to prominence as mayor of Paris before becoming prime minister and then serving as head of state from 1995-2007.

• Friday, September 27th 2019 - 08:53 UTC

  Falklands' port facilities reopen following incident with trawler

  

  Falkland Islands main sea terminal, FIPASS, (Falklands Interim Port and Storage System) this week resumed normal activity after the incident in which the trawler Pesca Vaqueiro collided with the dock on September 5.

• Friday, September 27th 2019 - 08:52 UTC

  Even Tories tell Johnson to be “mild in language”; stepped security for several threatened MPs

  

  UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson faced an angry backlash on Thursday over his quip about a murdered MP during a raucous parliamentary debate on Brexit. Johnson went on the offensive when MPs returned to work Wednesday following a Supreme Court ruling calling the chamber's suspension in the run-up to Brexit unlawful.

• Friday, September 27th 2019 - 08:46 UTC

  PM Johnson collects a seventh setback in Parliament, but insists with his Brexit strategy

  

  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson suffered yet another setback on Thursday after MPs rejected a request to briefly suspend business for his party's conference, highlighting the hostility he faces in parliament just weeks before Brexit. In his seventh successive defeat in parliament, MPs voted to reject his call for three days off next week to hold his Conservative party's annual conference in Manchester.

• Thursday, September 26th 2019 - 21:24 UTC

  Chilean helicopter rescues Polish scientists stranded in a Zodiac

  

  What was to be a simple shift of scientists from the Polish station Henryk Arcotowski in the Antarctica Peninsula turned out into a dramatic rescue operation, involving the Chilean Air Force, after the three were stranded in a Zodiac for over three hours five miles offshore surrounded by ice and freezing winds.

• Thursday, September 26th 2019 - 13:35 UTC

  What is the economic fallout from the Saudi Arabia oil facility attack?

  

  A violent attack on Saudi Arabia’s oil infrastructure was carried out earlier this month. Some 18 drones and seven cruise missiles were reportedly fired in the direction of several oil facilities in the region. The Abqaiq facility was the primary location of attack, while cruise missiles struck an oilfield in Khurais, just east of the city of Riyadh.

• Thursday, September 26th 2019 - 09:57 UTC

  UN apocalyptic report on global warming devastating consequences for oceans and frozen spaces

  

  Two days after a climate summit failed to deliver game-changing pledges to slash carbon emissions, the United Nations warned on Wednesday that global warming is devastating oceans and Earth's frozen spaces in ways that directly threaten a large slice of humanity.