Politics

• Tuesday, January 3rd 2017 - 06:56 UTC

  New Year greetings to Falkland Islanders from Tierra del Fuego governor, “your governor”

  

  Rosana Bertone, governor of Argentina's extreme south province, officially Tierra del Fuego, Antarctica and South Atlantic Islands, which obviously includes the Falklands, included in her New Year greetings a message to the Islanders calling for peace and understanding leaving aside fear and mistrust.

• Tuesday, January 3rd 2017 - 06:41 UTC

  Malvinas: Argentina calls on UK for dialogue and sovereignty discussions

  

  Argentina has invited the United Kingdom to advance with the dialogue initiated last year to resume negotiations to enable in the shortest time possible, to find a peaceful and definitive solution to the sovereignty dispute over the Malvinas Islands, abiding the iterative calls from the international community, according to a release from the Argentine foreign ministry.

• Monday, January 2nd 2017 - 12:47 UTC

  Queen Elizabeth “still recuperating”, but feeling “better”

  

  The Queen is feeling “better” despite missing a New Year's Day church service at Sandringham, her daughter the Princess Royal has said. Princess Anne spoke to well-wishers outside the church after attending the service with her father Prince Philip, brother Prince Edward and other royals.

• Monday, January 2nd 2017 - 12:41 UTC

  Castro condemns “obsolete mentality” against foreign capital, as economy contracts

  

  In spite the significant surge in tourism set off by the detente with the United States, Cuba’s economy shrank in 2016 for the first time in nearly a quarter century with the main culprit: a plunge in aid from crisis-stricken Venezuela. President Raul Castro called on the Cuban people to overcome the obsolete mentality against foreign capital.

• Monday, January 2nd 2017 - 12:27 UTC

  Italy will eventually want to quit the Euro, forecasts top German economist

  

  The head of Germany's Ifo economic institute believes Italians will eventually want to quit the euro currency area if their standard of living does not improve, he told German daily Tagesspiegel.

• Monday, January 2nd 2017 - 12:14 UTC

  African migrant’s storm wire border fence trying to enter Spanish territory

  

  More than 1,000 illegal African migrants tried to enter Spanish territory by scaling a 6 meters wire border fence on New Year's Day. Fifty Moroccan and five Spanish officers were injured as they clashed with armed men carrying metal bars and rocks trying to break through the gates to access the border fences of Ceuta and Melilla.

• Monday, January 2nd 2017 - 08:58 UTC

  Don't trust computers, important stuff write it and have it delivered by courier, recommends Trump

  

  President-elect Donald J. Trump, expressing skepticism about intelligence assessments of Russian interference in the US election, said that he knew “things that other people don’t know” about the hacking, and that the information would be revealed “Tuesday or Wednesday.” He also underlined that no computer is safe and recommended sending important information the old fashion way, write it out and have it delivered by courier.

• Monday, January 2nd 2017 - 07:13 UTC

  Guterres new UN chief call to make 2017 a Year for Peace

  

  In his first day at the helm of the United Nations, Secretary General António Guterres today pledged to make 2017 a year for peace.“On this New Year's Day, I ask all of you to join me in making one shared New Year's resolution: Let us resolve to put peace first,” said Mr. Guterres in an appeal for peace. He said one question weighs heavy on his heart. “That is: how can we help the millions of people caught up in conflict, suffering massively in wars with no end in sight?”

• Monday, January 2nd 2017 - 05:45 UTC

  Argentina's new economic team aims to fight budget deficit and reform the tax code

  

  In his first public comments since his appointment, Argentine Economy minister Nicolas Dujovne told a press conference that his main objective would be to continue with center-right President Mauricio Macri's economic policies.

• Saturday, December 31st 2016 - 16:16 UTC

  PM May plans to pull out from European Court, sponsors British Bill of Rights

  

  UK Prime Minister Theresa May is considering making plans to pull out of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), a cornerstone of the Conservatives next general election campaign, it has been reported. The Prime Minister is said to have accepted proposals for a British Bill of Rights – originally announced by David Cameron – which will have to be put on hold while the Government deals with Brexit.