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Politics

  • Tuesday, July 10th 2018 - 07:20 UTC

    Quick review of Brexit events and possible outcomes

    May came to power shortly after the Brexit vote, promising to be a steady hand in the negotiations.

    A huge political fight has erupted in the UK government over Brexit, Britain’s controversial decision to break away from the European Union, and it could bring down Prime Minister Theresa May. In the last 24 hours, three members of May's cabinet — Foreign Minister Boris Johnson, Brexit Minister David Davis, and the minister for the Department for Exiting the EU, Steve Baker — quit the government in protest over May’s handling of negotiations with the European Union.

  • Tuesday, July 10th 2018 - 07:15 UTC

    Trump picks strong business-friendly candidate to the Supreme Court

    The nomination of Kavanaugh to replace the retiring Anthony Kennedy is another win for corporate America.

    President Donald Trump on Monday night picked Brett Kavanaugh to fill an open seat on the Supreme Court, potentially creating the most business-friendly high court since before the New Deal in the 1930s. The nomination of Kavanaugh to replace the retiring Anthony Kennedy is another win for corporate America.

  • Tuesday, July 10th 2018 - 06:38 UTC

    May reshuffles cabinet and warns that a divided Tory party could lead to a Corbyn government

    Mrs May was forced to carry out a reshuffle of her top team after Boris Johnson and David Davis both quit.

    Theresa May will chair her new-look cabinet on Tuesday morning after a string of resignations over her Brexit strategy left her government in crisis. Mrs. May was forced to carry out a reshuffle of her top team after Boris Johnson and David Davis both quit.

  • Monday, July 9th 2018 - 08:20 UTC

    UK woman dies after exposed to never agent Novichok; her partner in critical condition

    Mother-of-three Dawn Sturgess, died at Salisbury Hospital, Scotland Yard said. She was admitted to hospital after falling ill at her partner's home in Amesbury

    UK police have launched a murder inquiry after a woman who was exposed to the nerve agent novichok died in hospital on Sunday evening. Mother-of-three Dawn Sturgess, 44, died at Salisbury District Hospital, Scotland Yard said.

  • Monday, July 9th 2018 - 07:43 UTC

    Argentina's austere Independence Day celebration in Tucuman, with no military parade

    Contrary to other years there will be no military parade in Tucuman or Buenos Aires, as a result of the strict austerity measures imposed by Macri administration.

    President Mauricio Macri and his cabinet will be celebrating Argentina's Independence Day, Monday 9 July at the Historic House in the northern province of Tucuman, where the declaration was first announced 202 years ago. Contrary to other years there will be no military parade in Tucuman or Buenos Aires, allegedly as a consequence of the strict austerity measures imposed by the Macri administration.

  • Monday, July 9th 2018 - 07:24 UTC

    Lula loses another legal battle: appeals court blocks his release from jail

    Polls suggest the leftist icon, who is in prison for bribery, could win a third term if he entered the race

    The chief justice of a Brazilian appeals court blocked another judge’s efforts to release imprisoned former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Sunday, in a legal battle over the country’s most popular politician ahead of an October election.

  • Monday, July 9th 2018 - 07:08 UTC

    “Argentina on the rocky road to recession”, anticipates The Economist

    Frustratingly for president Macri, Argentina’s travails are, in part, a consequence of his efforts to put the economy on a firmer footing.

    On a residential street corner in Buenos Aires, Van Koning Market sells imported beers to the city’s well-heeled. Since it opened in June last year costs have soared. The peso has plummeted, meaning wholesale prices have shot up. Inflation is running at 26%; the reduction of government subsidies means the monthly electricity bill has risen from 700 pesos to 4,000 pesos (US$ 142).

  • Monday, July 9th 2018 - 06:46 UTC

    Brexit team resigns over Chequers' 'soft' plan: decisive debate this Monday in Parliament

    In his letter, Mr. Davis said “the current trend of policy and tactics” was making it “look less and less likely” UK would leave the customs union and single market.

    Brexit Secretary David Davis has resigned from the UK government. His resignation comes days after Theresa May secured the cabinet's backing for her Brexit plan despite claims from critics that it was “soft”. Mr. Davis was appointed to the post in 2016 and was responsible for negotiating the UK's EU withdrawal. Junior minister S.Baker quit shortly after Mr. Davis - as Mrs. May prepares to face MPs and peers this Monday.

  • Saturday, July 7th 2018 - 07:21 UTC

    May announces cabinet has reached a “collective agreement” on post Brexit

    Mrs. May has “picked a side” by opting for a closer relationship with the EU than any colleagues desired, and now has to sell it to her party and European leaders (Pic Joel Rouse/Crown Copyright/PA)

    The cabinet has reached a “collective” agreement on the basis of the UK's future relationship with the EU after Brexit, Theresa May has said. Ministers have signed up to a plan to create a free trade area for industrial and agricultural goods with the bloc, based on a “common rule book”.

  • Saturday, July 7th 2018 - 07:06 UTC

    Scotland says people 'require' a vote on the final outcome of Brexit

    Russell stressed that there would need to be clarity on what would happen if Scotland again voted against Brexit and the UK voted for it.

    Voters must be given a say on the final outcome of Brexit talks between Britain and the rest of the European Union, a senior member of the Scottish Government has said. Mike Russell, the Constitutional Relations Secretary in Nicola Sturgeon’s cabinet, said that people “require” such a ballot.