Politics

• Wednesday, July 20th 2016 - 03:56 UTC

  Theresa May begins tour of European capitals: Wednesday with Merkel, Thursday with Hollande

  

  British Prime Minister Theresa May on Wednesday will take off for her first tour of European capitals visiting Germany and France where she anticipated discussions about the UK leaving the EU must be “frank and open”. The prime minister will have a working dinner with Germany's Angela Merkel on Wednesday before talks with France's Francois Hollande on Thursday.

• Wednesday, July 20th 2016 - 03:50 UTC

  Rajoy closer to forming a coalition; ally gets speaker's job defeating Socialists

  

  Lawmakers on Tuesday picked a close ally of Mariano Rajoy as parliamentary speaker as Spain's acting prime minister cast around for coalition partners following last month's inconclusive general election. Public Works Minister Anta Pastor, 58, got the speaker's job under a deal between Rajoy's conservative Popular Party (PP) and market-friendly upstarts Ciudadanos, who came in fourth in the June 26 polls.

• Wednesday, July 20th 2016 - 03:47 UTC

  García Margallo wants Gibraltar out of Brexit talks; insists on a face to face meeting with Johnson

  

  Caretaker Spanish Foreign Minister, Jose Manuel Garcia Margallo, says he will be raising Gibraltar with the UK’s new Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson when they meet in London ‘soon’. The two had a fleeting encounter at a Brussels Summit on Monday during which the Gibraltar issue was mentioned briefly.

• Tuesday, July 19th 2016 - 06:44 UTC

  Argentine Jewish community demand investigation of the “local connection” in the 1994 AMIA terrorist attack

  

  Argentine President Mauricio Macri, together with members of the government and civil organizations attended on Monday in Buenos Aires the main ceremony commemorating the attack on the headquarters of the AMIA Jewish community organization in 1994, a crime that so far has gone unpunished.

• Tuesday, July 19th 2016 - 06:40 UTC

  Uruguay could compete for another pulp mill, if it develops logistics infrastructure

  

  Finland´s UPM pulp conglomerate which already has a plant in Uruguay announced it will commence discussions with the Uruguayan government on the development of logistics infrastructure for a possible mounting of another mill. Discussions will include railroad and roads, which currently are a critical challenge to establish large scale industrial operation in the Uruguayan inland and to connect it to a deep sea port.

• Tuesday, July 19th 2016 - 05:40 UTC

  CEO denies plan to privatize Petrobras: 'Brazilian society not mature enough to discuss the issue'

  

  The Brazilian government has no plans to privatize state-run oil company Petrobras and is still deciding whether to sell its controlling share in several units to shore up its finances, the company's Chief Executive Officer Pedro Parente said in an interview with a local newspaper published on Monday.

• Tuesday, July 19th 2016 - 05:37 UTC

  Brazil tightens security at airports ahead of the Olympic Games in the aftermath of Nice

  

  Stepped-up security screenings produced long lines for travelers at Brazil’s main airports on Monday in the aftermath of the truck attack in Nice, France and weeks ahead of the Olympic Games scheduled to open next 5 August in Rio do Janeiro.

• Tuesday, July 19th 2016 - 05:11 UTC

  Falklands attending OTs and UK ministerial meeting in Turks and Caicos: Brexit in the agenda

  

  Economic, social, health and environmental issues, as well as the relationship between Overseas Territories (OT`s) and the United Kingdom, will be discussed at the upcoming Pre-Joint Ministerial conference to be held in the Caribbean Turks and Caicos islands. The Falkland Islands will be represented by MLA Roger Edwards and Gibraltar by Chief Minister Fabian Picardo.

• Monday, July 18th 2016 - 07:25 UTC

  Boris Johnson reassures Gibraltar's sovereignty and prosperity during meeting with Picardo

  

  The UK will take “whatever action is necessary” to safeguard Gibraltar’s British sovereignty and prosperity”, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has said after his first meeting with Gibraltar Chief Minister Fabian Picardo in London on Saturday, according to a release from the Foreign Office.

• Saturday, July 16th 2016 - 10:32 UTC

  Five arrests believed to be linked to the Nice killer of 84; another 52 remain in critical condition

  

  Five people believed to be linked to the man who killed 84 people in Nice are in police custody, the Paris prosecutor's office says. Three arrests were made on Saturday and two on Friday, Le Monde reported. Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel plowed with a truck through crowds marking Bastille Day on the Promenade des Anglais on Thursday before he was shot dead by police.