Politics

• Friday, January 4th 2019 - 02:52 UTC

  Relations with Falklands could improve if Argentina behaves as a good neighbour rather than a greedy colonial power

  

  Martin Ezequiel Dinatale, a member of Argentine news agency Infobae staff, sent Falklands' lawmaker MLA Roger Spinks a questionnaire on current and future relations between the peoples of Argentina and the Falklands, particularly since the announced latest agreement for a second commercial air link this time between the Islands and Brazil with a stopover at Cordoba, second largest Argentine city.

• Thursday, January 3rd 2019 - 08:46 UTC

  Illegal migrants: UK redeploys patrol vessels from Mediterranean to the Channel

  

  An Iranian national and a British man have been arrested on suspicion of arranging the “illegal movement of migrants” across the English Channel. The National Crime Agency said the 33-year-old Iranian and 24-year-old Briton were held in Manchester. It comes after the government redeployed patrol vessels from the Mediterranean amid concerns over a rising number of crossings.

• Thursday, January 3rd 2019 - 07:29 UTC

  Bolsonaro effect on Brazilian markets and currency

  

  A record high for Brazil shares and a more than 2% gain in the Real, spurred by positive policy moves by the country's new government, helped Latin American markets make a strong start to the New Year and buck gloom in global markets on Wednesday.

• Thursday, January 3rd 2019 - 07:09 UTC

  Macri and Cristina Fernandez, most influential Argentines during 2018

  

  Who have been the most influential Argentines during 2018, is a traditional public opinion survey which Consultants Giacobbe & Associates have been releasing annually uninterruptedly since 1995. And this last year there were no big surprises: the main characters have been president Mauricio Macri and ex-president Cristina Fernandez.

• Wednesday, January 2nd 2019 - 08:50 UTC

  Trump's ambassador in London questions Mrs. May Brexit deal and leadership

  

  Donald Trump's offer of a “quick, massive, bilateral trade deal” will not be possible if Theresa May's EU withdrawal agreement is approved, the US ambassador to the UK has warned. President Trump had previously said her Brexit proposal sounded like a “great deal for the EU” Woody Johnson told the BBC the UK was “in need of leadership” over Brexit.

• Wednesday, January 2nd 2019 - 08:43 UTC

  PM May says UK can “turn a corner and put differences aside” if Parliament backs her Brexit deal

  

  The United Kingdom can “turn a corner” and start to “put its differences aside” if Parliament backs the proposed Brexit deal Prime minister Theresa May said in her New Year message.

• Wednesday, January 2nd 2019 - 08:39 UTC

  Germany makes intersex people legally identified in their documents

  

  Intersex people in Germany can now legally identify themselves as such under a new law adopted in December. People who do not fit the biological definition of male or female can now choose the category “diverse” on official documents.

• Wednesday, January 2nd 2019 - 08:30 UTC

  UK fishing industry questions new impractical EU rules on quotas and discards

  

  New European Union rules on fishing quotas could have a “grave” impact on the UK's fishing industry, a House of Lords committee has said - just a day before the new policy is introduced. Under previous rules, crews often discarded, into the sea, fish that took them over their quota for that species. But under the new policy, fishers must bring the full haul back to shore. This change is to stop fish being wasted.

• Wednesday, January 2nd 2019 - 08:19 UTC

  UK has plans to establish military bases in the Caribbean and Far East after Brexit

  

  The Defense Secretary has said the UK could establish new military bases in the Caribbean and the Far East. Gavin Williamson has told the Sunday Telegraph it would allow Britain to become a “true global player” following Brexit.

• Wednesday, January 2nd 2019 - 07:14 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez ex foreign minister, Hector Timerman, dies 65

  

  Hector Timerman, a former Argentine foreign minister who was charged with treason in 2013 for his role in negotiating an agreement with Iran relating to the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, died Sunday at his home here. He was 65. His lawyer, Graciana Peñafort, said the cause was respiratory failure. Timerman had been under treatment for liver cancer, she said.