Tag: United Kingdom

• Wednesday, November 13th 2019 - 09:26 UTC

  UK election: Labour pledges extra funding of 26bn pounds for health service

  

  Britain's opposition Labour Party will pledge on Wednesday to spend an extra 26 billion pounds on healthcare if it wins the Dec. 12 election, including recruiting thousands more staff, rebuilding facilities and providing new equipment.

• Wednesday, November 13th 2019 - 09:10 UTC

  UK unemployment at a 45-year low, but jobs' market softening

  

  British unemployment has hit a fresh 45-year low, official data showed on Tuesday in a mixed labor market snapshot before a UK general election and Brexit.

• Saturday, November 9th 2019 - 10:45 UTC

  Brexit-era paralysis: Moody's downgrades UK's debt to negative

  

  Moody's on Friday downgraded the outlook for Britain's debt, citing mounting policy challenges amid the Brexit debate. The agency cut the outlook to negative from stable but kept the debt at the investment-grade Aa2.

• Friday, November 8th 2019 - 08:39 UTC

  Argentine researcher wins the Johnstone and Florence Stoney Prize

  

  University of Dundee researcher has been presented with a prestigious science award from the British Federation of Women Graduates (BFWG). Azul Zorzoli, a PhD student from Argentina, has received the Johnstone and Florence Stoney Prize, which recognizes outstanding academic excellence in postgraduate researchers.

• Thursday, November 7th 2019 - 09:59 UTC

  Alberto Fernandez and Jeremy Corbyn talked about the Falklands/Malvinas claim

  

  Argentine president-elect Alberto Fernandez revealed that last week he received a call from UK opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn, and despite the ideological affinity, the incoming president said that Argentina under his administration would, always, claim the Falklands/Malvinas Islands sovereignty.

• Thursday, November 7th 2019 - 05:52 UTC

  Boris Johnson launches election campaign in Labour stronghold of Birmingham

  

  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday launched the Conservatives' election campaign in a traditional stronghold of the Labour opposition he hopes to win over by vowing to “get Brexit done”.

• Tuesday, November 5th 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  Malvinas “Virgin of Lujan” image finally arrives to Buenos Aires

  

  An image of Argentina Patroness, the Virgin of Lujan which was left behind by the Argentine soldiers at the end of the Falklands/Malvinas war, and was recently returned by the United Kingdom and blessed by Pope Francis in the Vatican, finally arrived in Buenos Aires early morning Monday, 37 years after the conflict was over.

• Tuesday, November 5th 2019 - 09:31 UTC

  Commons has a new Speaker, Lindsay Hoyle, who promised “the House will change for better”

  

  Long-serving Labour Party lawmaker Lindsay Hoyle was elected speaker of Britain’s House of Commons on Monday, taking up the job with a clear message: I’m not John Bercow.

• Monday, November 4th 2019 - 09:52 UTC

  Tatham Jr. optimistic about Brexit and a future UK/US trade deal

  

  The Brexit mess finally will clear, one way or the other, and when it does, big Chicago exporters such as Boeing and Abbott Labs and their peers from around the country will be able to focus on the benefits of doing business with the United Kingdom.

• Monday, November 4th 2019 - 09:20 UTC

  Eight hopefuls for Speaker of Commons Bercow chair

  

  British MPs will this Monday select the new speaker of the House of Commons, once an unremarkable event but one now charged with significance following the previous occupant's role in Brexit.