Tag: United Kingdom

• Tuesday, March 28th 2017 - 08:27 UTC

  PM May announces major counter terrorism training exercise in Scotland

  

  British Prime Minister announced on Monday a major counter-terrorism training exercise will take place in Scotland later this year to test multi-agency response that would come into force in the event of a terror attack.

• Monday, March 27th 2017 - 11:38 UTC

  UK calls on companies to stop offering a “secret place for terrorists to communicate”

  

  Companies must cooperate more with law enforcement agencies and should stop offering a “secret place for terrorists to communicate” using encrypted messages, British interior minister Amber Rudd said on Sunday.

• Monday, March 27th 2017 - 11:13 UTC

  PM Theresa May travels to Scotland to pledge for “a more united nation”

  

  Prime Minister Theresa May will meet Nicola Sturgeon in Scotland later on Monday for the first time since the SNP announced their proposals for a second independence referendum. At the beginning of a week that will see Article 50 triggered on Wednesday, the PM will say she wants to “build a more united nation”.

• Monday, March 27th 2017 - 08:08 UTC

  Argentina's naval trainee tall ship “Libertad” scheduled to call at Portsmouth

  

  Argentina's Navy school vessel, tall ship Libertad left Buenos Aires on Saturday for its 46th training world tour, scheduled to last six months calling in thirteen different ports, including Portsmouth, announced the ministry of Defense.

• Saturday, March 25th 2017 - 10:20 UTC

  Falklands' Government sends Letter of Condolences to London

  

  The Falkland Islands Government has sent a letter of condolences to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, expressing sympathy and support from all members of the Falkland Islands community following the Wednesday attack at Westminster bridge and attempt to break into Parliament.

• Saturday, March 25th 2017 - 10:09 UTC

  Lord Heseltine claims Brexit delivers Europe to Germany; “Berlin lost the war and won peace”

  

  The UK is handing control of Europe's destiny to Germany by leaving the EU, Lord Heseltine has claimed. The Tory peer, sacked as a government adviser after defying the whip over Brexit, said the Germans had lost World War Two but the UK was now giving them the “opportunity to win the peace”.

• Friday, March 24th 2017 - 11:43 UTC

  Falklands should be left to develop and establish links with other regional countries

  

  UK ambassador in Argentina Mark Kent reiterated Falkland Islands sovereignty was not in the bilateral agenda, although the two countries can cooperate in other areas of mutual interest, letting the Islanders to develop and establish links with other South American countries.

• Friday, March 24th 2017 - 10:45 UTC

  British people carrying on with their lives as normal: “terrorists will not defeat us”

  

  British people have shown terrorists they “will not defeat us” by carrying on with their lives as normal after the “sickening” Westminster attack, Theresa May told the House of Commons on Thursday. The Prime Minister said Parliament was sending out the message following Wednesday’s attack by a knife-wielding terrorist that “we will never waver in the face of terrorism”.

• Thursday, March 23rd 2017 - 13:43 UTC

  The Muslim Council of Britain condemned the attack

  

  The Muslim Council of Britain has condemned the terror attack which struck the heart of London. Religious leaders said it was too early to speculate on the attackers' motives but offered “thoughts and prayers” to the victims.

• Thursday, March 23rd 2017 - 13:32 UTC

  Macri administration reiterates defense of Malvinas sovereignty before Congress

  

  Argentina's chief of staff Marcos Peña defended the current administration's policy towards the Falklands/Malvinas question arguing that dialogue is the path, not speeches with no content or results, and pledged “we will stand by Argentine sovereignty of the Malvinas Islands”.