Politics

• Wednesday, March 29th 2017 - 10:15 UTC

  It's official: 12.7 million Argentines live in poverty, 30.3% of the population

  

  Argentina's official poverty index in the second half of 2016 dropped to 30.3%, an estimated 12.7 million people, from 32.2% in the first half according to the country's stats office Indec. The 30.3% index includes 6.1% of indigence, which is also below the 6.3% of the first half. The drop means that 800.000 people are no longer in the poverty category index.

• Wednesday, March 29th 2017 - 07:59 UTC

  Netherlands prepared to help with Falklands' dialogue, once UK leaves the EU

  

  Holland is prepared to contribute to the Falklands/Malvinas dialogue between Argentina and UK, once Britain has definitively left the European Union, said on Tuesday foreign minister Susana Malcorra who is part of the official delegation of president Mauricio Macri state visit to the Netherlands.

• Wednesday, March 29th 2017 - 07:23 UTC

  Scottish parliament voted to seek a new independence referendum

  

  Scotland's Parliament voted on Tuesday to seek a new referendum on independence from Britain, clearing the way for the country's first minister to ask the British government to approve such a vote. The legislature in Edinburgh voted 69-59 to seek Britain's parliamentary endorsement, which is required, for a referendum that First Minister Nicola Sturgeon wants to hold within two years, before Britain has completed its departure from the 28-nation European Union.

• Tuesday, March 28th 2017 - 08:51 UTC

  Trump's son in law to testify in Congress on alleged contacts with Russian officials and bankers

  

  Russian bank under Western economic sanctions over Russia's incursion into Ukraine disclosed on Monday that its executives had met Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump's son-in-law and a top White House adviser, during the 2016 election campaign.

• Tuesday, March 28th 2017 - 08:36 UTC

  May and Sturgeon unable to find common ground; Scottish parliament will vote on independence referendum

  

  Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and British Prime Minister Theresa May were unable to find common ground during a meeting in Scotland, just a day before the Scottish parliament is set to sanction another independence referendum.

• Tuesday, March 28th 2017 - 08:27 UTC

  PM May announces major counter terrorism training exercise in Scotland

  

  British Prime Minister announced on Monday a major counter-terrorism training exercise will take place in Scotland later this year to test multi-agency response that would come into force in the event of a terror attack.

• Tuesday, March 28th 2017 - 08:24 UTC

  Argentine government offices can't stop calling the Islands... Falklands

  

  Argentine government offices and dependencies don't seem to be able to get things right. When they publish maps of Argentina including the disputed South Atlantic Islands, on several occasions they have identified them as the Falkland Islands, and when not simply forgot to include them.

• Tuesday, March 28th 2017 - 08:12 UTC

  Argentina defines continental shelf limits with the exception of the Falklands and Antarctica areas

  

  Argentine foreign minister Susana Malcorra has announced that Argentina has definitive international support for its defined continental shelf limits, with the exception of the Falklands/Malvinas, South Georgia, in dispute with the UK, and those covered by the Antarctic Treaty, which are not considered by the UN because of a sovereignty litigation or an international treaty.

• Monday, March 27th 2017 - 11:38 UTC

  UK calls on companies to stop offering a “secret place for terrorists to communicate”

  

  Companies must cooperate more with law enforcement agencies and should stop offering a “secret place for terrorists to communicate” using encrypted messages, British interior minister Amber Rudd said on Sunday.

• Monday, March 27th 2017 - 11:20 UTC

  Merkel's party sprints ahead in first regional election leading to September

  

  Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) has won state elections in the small western state of Saarland on Sunday by significantly increasing its vote share. . Led by premier Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, the most popular politician in the region, CDU has won 40.1% of the vote, increasing its share by 4.9 percentage votes compared with 2012, according to the projections based on exit polls and broadcasted by the public television ARD.