Tag: United Kingdom

• Friday, June 16th 2023 - 10:27 UTC

  UK Parliament consulting Falklands Legislative Assembly on Overseas Territoires

  

  There is currently an inquiry by UK Parliament into the status of the Overseas Territories in the 21st Century and the Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly intend to make a submission, confirmed MLA Teslyn Barkman to Penguin News this week.

• Wednesday, June 14th 2023 - 10:00 UTC

  British Embassy in Buenos Aires has selected six “Ambassadors for a Day” 2023

  

  After a careful selection process, the British Embassy in Argentina has announced that six Argentine young women aged between 19 and 26 are the winners of the “Ambassador for a Day” competition new edition, which will give them a first-hand experience in diplomatic work and enable them to join a network of female leaders from different countries in the region.

• Friday, June 9th 2023 - 11:18 UTC

  Biden, Sunak sign “Atlantic Declaration” to address new technologies

  

  US President Joseph Biden and UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak Thursday renewed the economic alliance between the two countries by adapting it to the current world's transformations such as artificial intelligence (AI) and the climate crisis by signing the so-called Atlantic Declaration. Both leaders met at the White House to also discuss the war in Ukraine and the global economy.

• Thursday, June 8th 2023 - 16:05 UTC

  IMF suggests immigration could help UK with inflation and labor shortage

  

  Immigration that fills gaps in the domestic jobs market can help push down UK inflation, the deputy head of the International Monetary Fund has said. However British prime minister Rishi Sunak has insisted rates of legal immigration are “too high”

• Thursday, June 8th 2023 - 08:59 UTC

  UK's CBI survives, but many questions remain and members holding out

  

  The powerful lobby Confederation of British Industry, CBI has won a key confidence vote over its future after members overwhelmingly backed the lobby group following a series of scandals.

• Monday, June 5th 2023 - 13:07 UTC

  British government mulls food price cap; retailers skeptical of impact

  

  The British Government's plans to introduce a cap on the price of basic food items will not help tackle the rising cost of living, retailers have warned. The British Retail Consortium (BRC) said the measures would not make a “jot of difference” and could thwart efforts to cut inflation.

• Friday, June 2nd 2023 - 11:31 UTC

  Most Britons feel the Falkland Islands should remain with UK, YouGov poll

  

  People in Britain would be more upset to see Gibraltar or the Falkland Islands leave the UK than they would if Northern Ireland did, according to a new YouGov poll published in British media.

• Friday, June 2nd 2023 - 11:00 UTC

  RRS Sir David Attenborough back in UK; she returns to Antarctica in October

  

  The Falkland Islands' flagged RRS Sir David Attenborough has returned to the UK after a second season docked at Antarctica. The crew completed its polar science trials during what was a seven-month mission. The vessel arrived at Harwich in Essex on Tuesday.

• Wednesday, May 31st 2023 - 10:51 UTC

  Falklands and HMS Medway honor patrol vessel HMS Leeds Castle

  

  HMS Medway is carrying out patrol duties in the Falkland Islands, filling in while HMS Forth undergoes refit in Gibraltar, but her crew are leaving behind a lasting legacy, which will even be visible from space.

• Wednesday, May 31st 2023 - 10:12 UTC

  UK condemns “desecration” of maritime military graves in Malaysian waters

  

  Malaysia questioned a Chinese-registered vessel suspected of looting two British World War II shipwrecks. The ship was seized over the weekend after it anchored without a permit off Malaysia's southern Johor state, the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency chief in the region, Nurul Hizam Zakaria, said on Tuesday.