Politics

• Tuesday, April 10th 2018 - 09:09 UTC

  Sharing cash for farmers, one of the biggest post Brexit challenge, say experts

  

  Quitting the European Union means the UK will have to go back to the drawing board over devolution, constitutional experts have warned. Wrangles over sharing out cash for farmers will be one of the biggest challenges ministers face, according to the Institute for Government (IfG).

• Tuesday, April 10th 2018 - 08:55 UTC

  Temer names trusted official a Mines and Energy minister, ahead of decisive privatizations

  

  Brazil’s President Michel Temer named Wellington Moreira Franco to take over the Mines and Energy Ministry, a key portfolio that includes overseeing the proposed privatization of Centrais Eletricas Brasileiras SA (Eletrobras).

• Tuesday, April 10th 2018 - 08:49 UTC

  FBI raids offices and home of Trump's personal lawyer; president calls it a “witch hunt”

  

  The Federal Bureau of Investigation on Monday raided the offices and home of U.S. President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen, law enforcement sources said, in a dramatic new development in a series of probes involving close Trump associates. Cohen’s lawyer, Stephen M. Ryan, said that U.S. prosecutors conducted a search that was partly a referral by the Office of Special Counsel, Robert Mueller.

• Tuesday, April 10th 2018 - 08:44 UTC

  FARC leader arrested in Bogotá on a US request for drug trafficking

  

  One of the top leaders of Colombia's former rebel group, FARC, has been arrested in Bogota following a request from the United States. Jesus Santrich, a former peace negotiator, is accused of drug trafficking by a court in New York.

• Tuesday, April 10th 2018 - 08:28 UTC

  Facebook's Zuckerberg again apologizes ahead of congressional hearings

  

  On the eve of an expected grilling by U.S. lawmakers, Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg once again apologized for inadequately protecting the data of millions of social media platform users and highlighted steps the firm is taking to prevent a repeat.

• Tuesday, April 10th 2018 - 08:08 UTC

  Falklands' parade on 21st April to celebrate Queen's birthday

  

  The Falkland Islands will be holding a parade to celebrate the birthday of the Queen at Victory Green on Saturday 21st April 2018. The parade will form up at Victory Green at 10.20 hours and Governor Nigel Phillips CBE will arrive at 10.30 hours.

• Tuesday, April 10th 2018 - 07:27 UTC

  HMS Protector expected in Buenos Aires

  

  The United Kingdom Ice Patrol HMS Protector is expected this week in Buenos Aires on her return trip from the Antarctica season. The visit is seen as evidence of the renewed and improved UK/Argentina bilateral relations, both politically and in defense issues.

• Monday, April 9th 2018 - 12:19 UTC

  Falkland Islands joins RAF centenary celebrations

  

  The Falkland Islands also joined Royal Air Force centenary celebrations. Despite poor weather the hangar event held at Mount Pleasant Complex, MPC, to celebrate RAF 100 the Royal Air Force Centenary (April 1) “went off perfectly,” according to spokesperson for the event.

• Monday, April 9th 2018 - 09:08 UTC

  Italy's right wing parties say they are ready to form a new government

  

  Italy’s three main rightist parties on Sunday vowed to present a united front in a fresh round of talks on forming a new government next week, defying attempts by the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement to divide them in coalition negotiations.

• Monday, April 9th 2018 - 08:58 UTC

  Re-elected thorn for the European Union: landslide victory for Hungary's Orban

  

  Hungary's all-powerful premier Viktor Orban, his party victorious in elections Sunday, is the self-styled defender of Christian Europe against the “poison” of immigration, an admirer of “illiberal democracy” and a thorn in the European Union's side.