Politics

Monday, July 1st 2019 - 09:26 UTC
Russian military intelligence allegedly behind the Salisbury chemical attack

An open-source investigation has found that a top Russian military intelligence officer coordinated last year's Salisbury chemical attack from a London hideout using his phone and a few messaging apps.
Monday, July 1st 2019 - 08:54 UTC
EU leaders can´t agree on the European Commission's top jobs

EU leaders are meeting in Brussels in a new effort to decide who should get the EU's top jobs, including a successor to Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker. Centre-right leaders from the EU's biggest political group played down the chances of agreement on Sunday on a new Commission president.
Monday, July 1st 2019 - 07:20 UTC
Johnson and Hunt promise to spend billions as they pitch for Theresa May's job

Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt vowed to spend billions of pounds on public services, infrastructure and tax cuts on Sunday as the two men battling to become prime minister pitched themselves as the best candidate to take on the opposition Labour Party.
Saturday, June 29th 2019 - 09:56 UTC
“Now I only have to recover Malvinas” says Argentine foreign minister after the milestone Mercosur/EU accord

“Now I only have to recover the Malvinas Islands” said Argentine foreign minister Jorge Faurie, following the trade and association agreement reached on Friday in Brussels between Mercosur and the European Union.
Saturday, June 29th 2019 - 09:55 UTC
EU and Mercosur reach historic agreement creating a 780 million people market

The European Union and Mercosur reached on Friday a political agreement for an ambitious, balanced and comprehensive trade agreement. The EU is the first major partner to strike a trade pact with Mercosur, a bloc comprising Argentina, Brazil Paraguay and Uruguay.
Saturday, June 29th 2019 - 09:50 UTC
OAS General Assembly after two days of debate remains divided on Venezuela

Members of the Organization of American States (OAS) ended two days of meetings on Friday without a clear plan for increasing pressure on embattled Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, despite a majority vote to recognize a representative from the country's opposition.
Saturday, June 29th 2019 - 09:07 UTC
The US Treasury lists the son of Nicolas Maduro in the “corrupt boys club”

The United States on Friday imposed sanctions on the son of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro for serving in his father's “illegitimate regime”. The action freezes any assets Nicolas Ernesto Maduro Guerra has in the United States and bars American individuals or institutions from doing business with the 29-year-old.
Saturday, June 29th 2019 - 08:46 UTC
US/China trade talks back on track, announces Trump. New tariffs on hold

United States president Donald Trump said trade negotiations with China were “back on track” after “excellent” talks on Saturday with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in which Washington reportedly agreed to hold off on new tariffs.
Saturday, June 29th 2019 - 05:44 UTC
Uruguay withdraws from OAS assembly to protest the incorporation of a Guaido representative

Uruguay on Thursday withdrew from the annual meeting of the Organization of American States (OAS) Assembly being held in Medellin, Colombia, in protest of the presence of what it said was an illegitimate delegation from Venezuela.
Friday, June 28th 2019 - 21:07 UTC
Falklands: UK, Argentina and Red Cross discussing further remains identifications

Argentina, United Kingdom and the International Committee of the Red Cross are advancing in negotiations to extend the current agreement for the identification of Argentine combatants fallen during the South Atlantic conflict and buried in the Falkland Islands at the Argentine military cemetery in Darwin.