Politics

• Friday, July 28th 2017 - 11:30 UTC

  May's loses another member of her inner circle; Johnson says “people want government to get on with its job”

  

  British Prime Minister Theresa May has lost another member of her inner circle after her strategy director and chief speechwriter Chris Wilkins quit. Wilkins follows the prime minister’s Joint Chiefs of Staff Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill, and policy chiefs John Godfrey and Will Tanner, who also resigned after the disastrous snap general election in June, which led to the Conservatives losing their majority in the House of Commons.

• Friday, July 28th 2017 - 06:17 UTC

  Falklands' winds and flight delays could reduce attractiveness of additional services

  

  Too many documented delays to flights might reduce the attractiveness of the Falklands in terms of an airline considering providing an additional service to the Islands, acknowledged Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) Gavin Short this week.

• Thursday, July 27th 2017 - 16:58 UTC

  Argentina and Uruguay plan to make a joint bid to host the 2030 World Cup

  

  Argentina and Uruguay are going ahead with plans to make a joint bid to host the 2030 World Cup despite expected competition from China and others .The South American neighbors are counting on sentimental support with Uruguay hosting the first World Cup in 1930.

• Thursday, July 27th 2017 - 16:41 UTC

  Trump's economic advisor Gary Cohn considered as possible next Fed chair

  

  United States President Donald Trump named two possible candidates to run the Federal Reserve over the next few years: current Fed Chair Janet Yellen and Trump's economic adviser Gary Cohn, according to an interview with The Wall Street Journal.

• Thursday, July 27th 2017 - 16:34 UTC

  Fed leaves rate unchanged but will begin selling assets “relatively soon”

  

  Leaders of the U.S. central bank said Wednesday that they were holding their benchmark lending rate at a low level — in a range between 1 and 1.25% — for the time being. Federal Reserve officials said in a report issued after their two-day policy meeting that the world's largest economy was growing at a “moderate” pace and the job market was improving, but that inflation remained a bit low.

• Thursday, July 27th 2017 - 15:53 UTC

  Falklands' issues Crown coin on 35th anniversary of Liberation Day

  

  The government and Treasury of the Falkland Islands have issued (11th July) a new crown coin which remembers the 35th anniversary of the day the Islands were officially and wholly liberated from invading Argentine military forces.

• Thursday, July 27th 2017 - 14:54 UTC

  Brazil central bank lowers basic rate to 9.25%; expected to reach 8% by end of 2017

  

  Brazil's central bank cut interest rates below 10% for the first time in nearly four years on Wednesday, keeping a fast pace of monetary easing as plunging inflation gave it leeway to aid an incipient recovery.The bank's nine-member monetary policy committee, known as Copom, cut its benchmark Selic rate by 100 basis points for the third straight time to 9.25%.

• Thursday, July 27th 2017 - 11:40 UTC

  British forces commanders oppose any ban on transgender serving in the military

  

  Commanders from British armed forces have opposed any ban on transgender people serving in the military. It comes after Donald Trump said that transgender people would not be allowed in the US military due to “tremendous” medical costs and disruption.

• Thursday, July 27th 2017 - 10:29 UTC

  UK expands 0.3% in second quarter, but it is a “notable slowdown” from last year

  

  United Kingdom economic growth edged slightly higher in the three months to June, as a stronger service sector offset weaker manufacturing and construction. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said the economy expanded by 0.3% in the quarter, up from 0.2% in the previous three months, but added there had been a “notable slowdown” from last year.

• Thursday, July 27th 2017 - 10:13 UTC

  ARA Libertad docks in Southampton: Open Day on Friday and Saturday

  

  Argentina´s navy frigate and tall ship ARA Libertad dropped anchor in Southampton on Wednesday as part of 46th midshipman promotion world tour which left Buenos Aires last March. Ambassador Carlos Sersale di Cerisano received the flagship of the Argentine Navy, while the whole operation was transmitted live from the embassy in London.