Politics

• Tuesday, September 18th 2018 - 08:38 UTC

  Growing demand for a second referendum on Brexit, but time is running out

  

  Calls for a second referendum on Brexit are mounting as Britain approaches the last six months before leaving the EU - but the sands of time could be running out for diehard Remainers. London Mayor Sadiq Khan became the latest big name to call for a vote, joining former prime ministers Tony Blair and John Major and celebrities like football star Gary Lineker.

• Tuesday, September 18th 2018 - 08:30 UTC

  Scallop war over: French and UK fishermen reach an agreement

  

  French and British fishermen agreed Monday to end their battle over access to scallop-rich waters in the English Channel, three weeks after the long-simmering conflict flared into a high-seas confrontation. The new deal is hoped to bring to a close the years-long “Scallop Wars” over fishing the prized mollusks in the fertile waters off the Baie de Seine area of Normandy in northwest France.

• Tuesday, September 18th 2018 - 08:24 UTC

  Judge indicts ex president Cristina Fernandez and asks for her arrest

  

  An Argentine federal judge indicted former President Cristina Fernandez on Monday and asked for her arrest for allegedly heading a corruption scheme that collected bribes from business leaders in exchange for public work contracts.

• Tuesday, September 18th 2018 - 08:23 UTC

  Brazil's presidential race polarizing between Bolsonaro and Haddad, according to latest poll

  

  Brazilian far-right presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro held a solid lead ahead of the October 7 election following a near-fatal stabbing, but Workers Party (PT) candidate Fernando Haddad emerged in second place, signaling a potential polarized right-left runoff, a poll showed on Monday.

• Tuesday, September 18th 2018 - 06:56 UTC

  Argentine Peso recovers on an IMF support message and budget presentation to Congress

  

  Argentina's battered Peso currency inched higher and the risk of its bonds defaulting declined after the government unveiled its budget plan and the IMF said “important progress” had been made on revamping the country's standby loan agreement.

• Monday, September 17th 2018 - 09:13 UTC

  Bolsonaro sends message from hospital bed and accuses rival PT of willing to win through fraud

  

  Brazilian far-right presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro attacked the rival Workers Party (PT) and raised the prospect of voter fraud in an address on Sunday from his hospital bed in Sao Paulo, where he is recovering from an assassination attempt.

• Monday, September 17th 2018 - 08:30 UTC

  Welsh voters now want to remain in the EU; 44% want a say in outcome of Brexit talks

  

  Some 44% of Welsh voters want a say on the outcome of the talks, polling for the People's Vote campaign found. Welsh voters backed quitting the European Union by 53% to 47%, but now 51% would vote to remain compared to 49%, the YouGov study for the group found. The usual margin of error for polling is three per cent.

• Monday, September 17th 2018 - 08:16 UTC

  A no-deal exit from the EU would deliver a “hammer blow” to the British economy says head of CBI

  

  A no-deal exit from the European Union would deliver a “hammer blow” to the British economy, the head of the CBI has warned. The business body’s director general Carolyn Fairbairn said the country should get behind Prime Minister Theresa May’s Chequers proposals as a blueprint for a Brexit deal.

• Monday, September 17th 2018 - 08:12 UTC

  International support for Argentina's general strike against IMF austerity measures

  

  The International Trade Union Conference, ITUC’s affiliates in Argentina, CGT, CTA-A and CTA-T have announced a general strike for 24-25 September in opposition to expected sweeping austerity measures being developed by the government and the International Monetary Fund.

• Monday, September 17th 2018 - 08:07 UTC

  UK and Chile agree to mutual cooperation in cyber defense

  

  The 16th Defense Staff Talks between United Kingdom and Chile took place on 13-14 September 2018 in Santiago at the Ministry of Defense. The Talks were led by the Undersecretary of Defense, Cristian de la Maza Riquelme, representing Chile and the Minister for the Armed Forces, Mark Lancaster, representing the United Kingdom.