Tag: United Kingdom

• Thursday, November 16th 2023 - 07:27 UTC

  King's Coronation Food Project to help 14 million people facing food insecurity in UK

  

  Tuesday November 14th was the 75th birthday of King Charless III, and the first time the event was celebrated by the ruling monarch as head of state. It was an opportunity for the King, very much aware of present and future generations challenges, to work and announce one of his many projects related to food and the environment, seeking to bridge the gap between food waste and food need across UK.

• Tuesday, November 14th 2023 - 10:12 UTC

  Sergio Massa: “For me Thatcher is an enemy of the Argentine people”

  

  In a heated debate that unfolded on Sunday, Libertarian Congressman Javier Milei found himself at odds with Economy Minister Sergio Massa. The confrontation reached a boiling point as Milei accused Massa of employing the “falacia ad populum” strategy, dismissing technical discussions as if they were only meant for a select few, rather than the millions of voters they both aimed to represent.

• Tuesday, November 14th 2023 - 09:10 UTC

  Former PM Cameron becomes UK's new Foreign Secretary

  

  British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak shook front pages worldwide Monday by appointing his predecessor David Cameron (2010-2016) as the United Kingdom's new Foreign Secretary in a cabinet reshuffle sparked by the dismissal of Suella Braverman from Home Affairs and her subsequent replacement by James Cleverly. Braverman was sacked after dubbing pro-Palestinian protests in London as “hate marches.”

• Saturday, November 11th 2023 - 11:55 UTC

  Tuesday, King's birthday, public holiday in Falklands; Charles will launch the Coronation Food Project

  

  The Falkland Islands Government has notified that Tuesday 14th November will be a Public Holiday for His Majesty the King’s Birthday. All Government Departments (other than those providing essential services) will be closed.

• Friday, November 10th 2023 - 10:35 UTC

  UK “must expand the Blue Belt” in Overseas Territories to shield the Antarctic from Chinese industrial fishing

  

  By Sir Oliver Heald (*) The UK’s Blue Belt Programme for ocean conservation in our Overseas Territories is one of the Conservative Party’s biggest environmental achievements of the past thirteen years.

• Thursday, October 26th 2023 - 09:56 UTC

  UN Security Council rejects US draft resolution

  

  Russia and China exercised their veto power on Wednesday and therefore the United Nations (UN) Security Council rejected a proposed resolution by the United States on the conflict between Israel and the Islamist group Hamas. The document had received the nod from ten countries while chairing Brazil abstained, Agencia Brasil reported.

• Thursday, October 19th 2023 - 08:55 UTC

  Argentine spy granted war veteran status after long legal battle

  

  A 65-year-old Argentine woman known by the initials A.C., who claimed to have performed intelligence duties during the 1982 South Atlantic conflict against the United Kingdom, has been granted war veteran status after a legal process that lasted several years because navy records showed she was assigned other duties, Mar del Plata's La Capital reported this week.

• Saturday, October 7th 2023 - 07:38 UTC

  Scotland by election confirms Labour's strong comeback; SNP promises to bounce back

  

  UK Labour “blew the doors off” to take the Rutherglen and Hamilton West seat back from the SNP, leader Keir Starmer has said. Speaking at a victory rally, he said it was “the first step on a very important journey” in Scotland and the UK.

• Tuesday, October 3rd 2023 - 09:55 UTC

  Buenos Aires says Cleverly's trip to Falkland Islands is an “unnecessary provocation”

  

  After British Secretary James Cleverly announced Sunday that he would be traveling to the Falklands to show his support for the Islanders' self-determination, the Argentine government replied that it was an “unnecessary provocation.”

• Monday, October 2nd 2023 - 09:07 UTC

  British national living wage is set to increase to £11 an hour from next April, Chancellor Hunt

  

  The British national living wage is set to increase to at least £11 an hour from next April, Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt is expected to confirm this Monday in a speech to the Conservative Party conference. The move will benefit two million of the lowest-paid workers, according to an advance of the speech shown to BBC.