Politics

• Tuesday, January 22nd 2019 - 10:11 UTC

  Brazilian government trying to recover control over its overloaded prison system

  

  Police and soldiers are being deployed in large numbers to Brazil's northeast to fight a wave of gang violence fueled by the overloaded, collapsing prison system. More than 400 elite federal troops have been sent to the city of Fortaleza and the rest of Ceara state to reinforce overwhelmed local cops, who face a dramatic rash of attacks on government buildings, buses, police stations, banks and bridges by well-armed gang members.

• Tuesday, January 22nd 2019 - 10:06 UTC

  Beware EU consumers: scheme to sell horse meat lasagna

  

  Four people are going on trial in Paris over an alleged scheme that fed consumers across Europe frozen foods containing cheap horse meat fraudulently labelled as pricier beef.

• Tuesday, January 22nd 2019 - 09:59 UTC

  French data regulator fines Google 50 million Euros for “lack of transparency”

  

  Google has been fined 50 million Euros by the French data regulator CNIL, for a breach of the EU's data protection rules. CNIL said it had levied the record fine for “lack of transparency, inadequate information and lack of valid consent regarding ads personalisation”.

• Tuesday, January 22nd 2019 - 09:56 UTC

  Falkland Islands Government appoints new Head of Finance

  

  The Falkland Islands Government announced the appointment of Debbie Ferriby as Head of Finance. Debbie is an experienced and qualified accountant, and is currently the Chief Finance Officer at Sure South Atlantic, based in Stanley.

• Tuesday, January 22nd 2019 - 09:51 UTC

  Cameron was warned about the referendum by EU leaders: “get real” over “this stupid referendum”

  

  The European Council President Donald Tusk told David Cameron to “get real” over his “stupid referendum” before the 2016 Brexit vote, a BBC documentary reveals. Mr Tusk tells the three-part show that he warned the then prime minister there was no “appetite for revolution in Europe” and he “could lose everything”.

• Tuesday, January 22nd 2019 - 08:37 UTC

  Venezuela foils uprising by National Guardsmen; massive protest march announced for Wednesday

  

  Venezuela plunged deeper into turmoil Monday as security forces put down a pre-dawn uprising by National Guardsmen that triggered violent street protests, and the Supreme Court moved to undercut the opposition-controlled congress' defiant new leadership. Socialist party chief Diosdado Cabello said 27 guardsmen were arrested and more could be detained as the investigation unfolds.

• Tuesday, January 22nd 2019 - 08:28 UTC

  Second humanitarian visit to Falklands confirmed by Buenos Aires and UK ambassador

  

  The Argentine government has confirmed that in coming days it will be meeting with Malvinas families and UK authorities to organize another humanitarian trip to the Falkland Islands so that the next of kin of the 18 recently identified Argentine soldiers can visit, honor and pray at their graves in the Argentine military cemetery near Darwin.

• Tuesday, January 22nd 2019 - 08:07 UTC

  Brexit: PM May pledges a more flexible, open, inclusive approach involving Parliament

  

  Theresa May has promised to take a more “flexible, open and inclusive” approach to involve Parliament in negotiating a future relationship with the EU as she seeks to revive her Withdrawal Agreement.

• Monday, January 21st 2019 - 19:58 UTC

  Submariners celebrate 50 years of the Royal Navy's nuclear deterrent patrols

  

  Events across the UK will celebrate the 50 years of dedication of submariners on the longest operation ever carried out by British armed forces. No mission has been longer – or more important – than the nuclear deterrent patrols performed around the clock by the Royal Navy over the past half-century.

• Monday, January 21st 2019 - 09:24 UTC

  Spain and EU working to minimize a no-deal Brexit impact on fisheries

  

  Spain's minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Luis Planas, said he was confident that if no agreement is reached regarding Brexit, both the European Union (EU) and Spain will be prepared. During an informative breakfast, minister Planas stressed that the government of Spain is working to ensure citizens and is prepared to minimize the impact of “Brexit” on the agri-food and fisheries sector.