Tag: United Kingdom

• Wednesday, November 19th 2014 - 04:18 UTC

  Bird flu highly contagious H5N8 strain in England, Netherlands and Germany

  

  Bird flu on a duck farm in northern England is the highly contagious H5N8 strain, the same form of the virus already discovered in Germany and the Netherlands, Britain's farm ministry confirmed on Tuesday.

• Wednesday, November 19th 2014 - 04:07 UTC

  E-cigarettes make “Vape” word of the year, says Oxford English Dictionary

  

  Oxford English Dictionary named “vape” - the word used for drawing on an electronic cigarette instead of a burning stick of tobacco – as its 2014 word of the year.“You are thirty times more likely to come across the word 'vape' than you were two years ago, and usage has more than doubled in the past year,” staff editors have said.

• Tuesday, November 18th 2014 - 06:52 UTC

  David Cameron: Red lights are flashing on the global economy (*)

  

  The G20 meeting in Brisbane made it clearer than ever to me that we in Britain must stick to our long-term economic plan. Six years on from the financial crash that brought the world to its knees, red warning lights are once again flashing on the dashboard of the global economy

• Monday, November 17th 2014 - 06:06 UTC

  UK will not support World Bank loans to Argentina; British public opinion against such aid

  

  The United Kingdom contributions mostly through World Bank loans and aid to Argentina have again been questioned in Britain with demands on Prime Minister David Cameron to block British taxpayers cash going to the country which has 'precarious finances' and a long standing demand over the Falkland Islands sovereignty.

• Monday, November 17th 2014 - 06:01 UTC

  Thousands march in Buenos Aires marathon in support for Falklands' dialogue

  

  Thousands of people participated Sunday in a race organized by Argentina's government to press for a dialogue with Britain over the Falkland Islands, officials said.“#YoCorroPorMalvinas was a success! More than 10 thousand people came out today to say Yes to a dialogue for the Malvinas,” Malvinas Islands Affairs Secretary Daniel Filmus said in a Twitter post.

• Saturday, November 15th 2014 - 05:24 UTC

  Falklands' naval exercises: “regular routine training”, says Ministry of Defense

  

  UK described recent combined military exercises in and around the Falkland Islands as part of regular routine training. The statement follows on Thursday's strong Argentine protest, (which claims sovereignty over the (Malvinas) Islands), and called the military exercises a “new provocation”.

• Saturday, November 15th 2014 - 01:13 UTC

  Parlasur dialogue with Kelpers: a great opportunity lost

  

  By Jaime Trobo (*) - Parlasur, acronym for Mercosur Parliament, decided to approve a declaration relative to the Malvinas Islands situation, and more specifically on the sovereignty conflict between the Argentine Republic and Great Britain, which has been ongoing for over 180 years with no reasonable accord.

• Friday, November 14th 2014 - 07:46 UTC

  UK ratifies position on new Security Council permanent members but wants to limit veto right

  

  The UK supports new permanent seats for Brazil, Germany, India, Japan and an African representation as part of the reforms to the United Nations Security Council, said Ambassador Sir Mark Lyall Grant of the UK Mission to the UN, during a debate at the General Assembly.

• Wednesday, November 12th 2014 - 03:19 UTC

  “Falklands/Malvinas current policy is a losing option and leads nowhere”

  

  Argentina's current policy on the Falklands/Malvinas Islands sovereignty is a losing option because it is a 'maximalist' attitude with the purpose of ‘full recovery' of the disputed islands, said Argentine political scientist and writer Carlos Escudé.

• Tuesday, November 11th 2014 - 04:34 UTC

  Minister Swire underlines business opportunities for UK companies in Paraguay

  

  UK Minister for Latin America, Hugo Swire, spoke of the growing presence of UK in Latin America and more specifically on the expanding links with Paraguay. Minister Swire said UK was determined to deepen its commercial ties with a rising Latin America and described Paraguay as a perfect trade and investment partner for UK, particularly since British oil industry has struck oil in the Chaco region.