Politics

• Monday, May 29th 2017 - 08:56 UTC

  Falklands Darwin cemetery: Red Cross identification mission begins round of talks in Argentina

  

  A delegation from the International Committee of the Red Cross is scheduled to begin this Monday a round of contacts in Buenos Aires related to the Humanitarian Project Plan for the identification of unknown Argentine combatants buried at the Darwin cemetery in the Falkland Islands.

• Monday, May 29th 2017 - 08:35 UTC

  British Airways disruption as it tries to overcome impact of worldwide computer system crash

  

  British Airways passengers were facing on Sunday a third day of disruption at Heathrow as the airline deals with the impact of a worldwide computer system crash. BA says it aims to operate a full long-haul schedule and a “high proportion” of short-haul services after the outage caused by a power failure.

• Monday, May 29th 2017 - 08:28 UTC

  Merkel calls on Europe “to fight for its own destiny”, forget US and UK

  

  Europe can no longer “completely depend” on the US and UK following the election of President Trump and Brexit, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said. Mrs. Merkel said she wanted friendly relations with both countries as well as Russia but Europe now had to “fight for its own destiny”.

• Monday, May 29th 2017 - 08:21 UTC

  Manchester, security and patriotism take center stage of UK election

  

  British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn attempted to head off potential Conservative attacks on his patriotism as he promised to be “strong against terrorism and strong against the causes of terrorism” after the Manchester attack. Corbyn said Monday’s suicide bombing cannot be ignored as General Election campaigning resumes but called for “quality” debate “without impugning anyone’s patriotism”.

• Saturday, May 27th 2017 - 13:53 UTC

  Armed police patrolling UK trains and rail network

  

  Armed police officers are patrolling on board trains in the United Kingdom for the first time. British Transport Police (BTP) announced the measure in a bid to “disrupt and deter criminal activity” on the rail network after the UK terror threat level rose to critical in the wake of the Manchester attack.

• Saturday, May 27th 2017 - 08:32 UTC

  Moody's lowers Brazil's credit outlook; Meirelles confident the reform agenda will be approved

  

  Brazil's economy is clearly growing again after a severe recession and will be shielded from a political crisis by widespread support for the government's reform agenda, Finance Minister Henrique Meirelles said, despite the fact Moody's on Friday announced it was lowering the country's credit outlook.

• Friday, May 26th 2017 - 10:26 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez prepared to run for Congress to put a break to Macri's policies

  

  Argentine ex president Cristina Fernandez said on Thursday she is open to the possibility of running for a seat in Congress in the October midterm elections, since she considers essential to put a stop to the policies implemented by her successor, president Mauricio Macri.

• Friday, May 26th 2017 - 10:20 UTC

  Argentina honors Spanish fisherman who spied on the Task Force during the Falklands war

  

  The Argentine embassy in Madrid honored a Spanish fisherman from Galicia, Fernando Otero, as a Malvinas Veteran for services accomplished during the 1982 Falklands war, spying on the British Task Force as she approached the South Atlantic. The event took place on Argentina's National Day, May 25th.

• Friday, May 26th 2017 - 08:02 UTC

  UK economy losing momentum as Brexit impact begins to be felt

  

  Britain's economy slowed more sharply than first thought in early 2017 as consumers felt the hit from the rise in inflation that followed the Brexit vote and exporters struggled to benefit from the weak pound. Thursday's downbeat official data - which contrasts with signs of acceleration in many other economies - comes two weeks before Britons vote in a national election.

• Friday, May 26th 2017 - 07:49 UTC

  Falklands/UK airbridge has reduced flight time with re-route via Cape Verde

  

  The United Kingdom MoD (Ministry of Defense) announced on Thursday that plans were in place to trial the Falkland Islands Airbridge flight via Sal, Cape Verde, on a temporary basis which would result in a shorter overall flight time and improved passenger experience.