Politics

• Friday, May 17th 2019 - 09:57 UTC

  Falkland Islands Land Mines, how they are cleared and blown up

  

  British Forces Network reports how a specialist de-mining team is clearing and exploding a hoard of land mines from the Falkland Islands landscape – out of more than 30,000 laid the Argentine forces during the 1982 conflict.

• Friday, May 17th 2019 - 09:56 UTC

  Bolsonaro defends his accused son and tells prosecutors and the media to go after him

  

  President Jair Bolsonaro on Thursday accused Brazilian prosecutors and the media of targeting his son in a corruption probe as an attempt to damage his administration, challenging critics to ”come at me.''

• Friday, May 17th 2019 - 09:42 UTC

  China not interested in trade talks; Beijing rekindles nationalist resilience during Korean War

  

  China may have no interest in continuing trade negotiations with the United States now, as it sees little “sincerity” in US President Donald Trump's recent approach, according to commentaries run by state media outlets on Friday.

• Friday, May 17th 2019 - 09:29 UTC

  Beijing cancels major pork order from the US; China a leading market for US hog industry

  

  The same week United States President Donald Trump announced sweeping increases on tariffs against Chinese goods, Chinese buyers dropped orders for 3,247 metric tons of US pork - the biggest cancellation in more than a year, according to US Department of Agriculture data released on Thursday.

• Friday, May 17th 2019 - 09:16 UTC

  Trump's administration makes official Huawei's blacklisting further escalating trade dispute with China

  

  The Trump administration on Thursday officially added China's Huawei Technologies to a trade blacklist, immediately enacting restrictions that will make it extremely difficult for the telecom giant to do business with U.S. companies.

• Friday, May 17th 2019 - 08:55 UTC

  Theresa May agrees to step down in early June, says chair of the 1922 Committee

  

  British Prime Minister Theresa May will set out a timetable for her departure in early June after the latest attempt to get her Brexit deal approved by parliament, the chairman of a powerful Conservative committee said on Thursday.

• Friday, May 17th 2019 - 08:41 UTC

  “Of course I'm going for it...” for Tory leadership, pledges Boris Johnson

  

  Boris Johnson, the face of the campaign for Britain to leave the European Union, said on Thursday he will be standing as a candidate to replace Prime Minister Theresa May as Conservative leader.

• Friday, May 17th 2019 - 08:14 UTC

  EC fines five leading global banks €1.07bn for rigging foreign exchange markets

  

  Five banks have been fined €1.07bn (£935m) by the European Commission after traders clubbed together to rig the foreign exchange market. Four banks in the “Banana Split” cartel - Barclays, RBS, Citigroup and JP Morgan - were fined €811m in all.

• Thursday, May 16th 2019 - 14:58 UTC

  Argentina does not recognize UK as a coastal state but will jointly address high seas catches in the South Atlantic

  

  Foreign minister Jorge Faurie strongly denied in Congress on Wednesday that the Argentine government was ready to “handover” the disputed Malvinas Islands to the British, and likewise defended the current proximity policy of president Mauricio Macri administration towards the South Atlantic issue.

• Thursday, May 16th 2019 - 09:59 UTC

  Norway, the seat for discussions between Venezuelan officials and opposition?

  

  Representatives of Venezuela's government and the opposition have traveled to Norway to discuss potential options following a failed uprising against President Nicolas Maduro, according to four opposition sources.