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Politics

  • Monday, October 23rd 2017 - 07:45 UTC

    UK's biggest business lobbies calling for urgent Brexit transition deal

    MP May has suggested a period of about two years, with UK and EU trading on broadly similar terms to now plus payments to Brussels

    Britain's five biggest business lobby groups are calling for an urgent Brexit transition deal, or they warn the UK risks losing jobs and investment. In a joint letter being sent to Brexit Secretary David Davis, the groups, including the Institute of Directors and CBI, will say time is running out.

  • Monday, October 23rd 2017 - 07:40 UTC

    Staunch Remainer convinced there's no way to prevent UK leaving the EU

    Mr Clarke told an audience at the Scottish Parliament’s Festival of Politics that a “no deal” scenario with the UK crashing out of the EU was “very unlikely”.

    The conservative former chancellor Ken Clarke has said he believes there is now no way to prevent the UK leaving the EU. The staunch Remainer said there was “little doubt” that Brexit would take place and argued a second referendum on any deal would be “folly”.

  • Monday, October 23rd 2017 - 07:25 UTC

    UN Human Rights High Commissioner visits Peru and Uruguay

    Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein visit to Uruguay includes meetings with President Vázquez, cabinet ministers, the presidents of Congress and the judiciary

    UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein will visit Peru and Uruguay this week to discuss progress and challenges concerning human rights in these countries. He will also launch a joint plan of action by the UN Human Rights Office and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to address the protection of human rights defenders in the Americas.

  • Monday, October 23rd 2017 - 06:25 UTC

    Sweeping victory for Macri consolidating his reform plans and 2019 reelection bid

    With 98% of ballots counted, Macri’s former education minister, Esteban Bullrich, had 41.34% versus 37.27% for Cristina Fernandez in Buenos Aires province

    Candidates allied with Argentine President Mauricio Macri enjoyed sweeping victories in Sunday’s mid-term election, strengthening his position in Congress while dimming prospects for a political comeback by his predecessor Cristina Fernandez. free-spending populist who nearly bankrupted the country during her 2007-2015 rule.

  • Monday, October 23rd 2017 - 05:29 UTC

    WHO Director General rescinds Goodwill Ambassador appointment

    “I have listened carefully to all who have expressed their concerns, and heard the different issues that they have raised”

    World Health Organization, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has announced that after much listening and reflection, he has decided to rescind the appointment of Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe as a WHO Goodwill Ambassador for NCDs in Africa.

  • Monday, October 23rd 2017 - 05:05 UTC

    Catalonia parties meet to decide how to react to Rajoy's announced measures

    As nearly half a million separatists took to the streets of Barcelona, Puigdemont declared Rajoy guilty of “the worst attack on institutions and Catalan people”

    Catalonia’s separatists weighed their options Sunday ahead of a week that will see Spain take the drastic step of sacking the region’s government as well as calling fresh elections to try and stop the country breaking up.

  • Sunday, October 22nd 2017 - 01:45 UTC

    Uruguay's football caught between a rock and a hard place

    Uruguayan striking players in a street demonstration

    Soccer passionate Uruguay is again with no matches this weekend in the local major leagues and could be for several weeks, because of a conflict between professional players demanding to remove the authorities of their association and a call for fresh elections. A request supported by six hundred signatures, and until complied there will be no games. The measure has been supported by the referees association.

  • Sunday, October 22nd 2017 - 00:38 UTC

    Major scandal after Mugabe was appointed as “WHO goodwill ambassador”

    With Mugabe on hand, Tedros announced the appointment at a conference in Uruguay this week on non-communicable diseases.

    In a tweet, WHO director-general Tedros Ghebreyesus said: “I'm listening. I hear your concerns. Rethinking the approach in light of WHO values. I will issue a statement as soon as possible.” Mugabe, 93, the world's oldest head of state, has long been criticized at home for going overseas for medical treatment as Zimbabwe's once-prosperous economy falls apart.

  • Saturday, October 21st 2017 - 18:32 UTC

    Rajoy asks Senate to remove Catalonia leadership and call regional elections

    “There is no country in the world ready to allow this kind of situation within its borders, it is my wish to call elections as soon as normality is restored” Rajoy said

    The Spanish government moved decisively Saturday to use a previously untapped constitutional power so it can take control of Catalonia and derail the independence movement led by separatist politicians in the prosperous industrial region.

  • Saturday, October 21st 2017 - 18:00 UTC

    Autopsy shows body found is missing Santiago Maldonado and has no signs of violence

    “We could look at body and recognize tattoos of Santiago. We are convinced that it is Santiago”, declared his elder brother, Sergio.

    The corpse found in Chubut River, in Argentine Patagonia, is Santiago Maldonado, it was confirmed late Friday by family members who recognized his body tattoos. Santiago lived in El Bolsón, a paradise for hippies in middle of Patagonia, precisely tattooing or living of small handicrafts in close contact with the Mapuche indigenous people who are in conflict with landowners and in recurrent clashes with security forces.