Tag: United Kingdom

• Wednesday, August 10th 2011 - 17:43 UTC

  PM Cameron authorizes water cannons and baton rounds against rioting

  

  UK Prime Minister David Cameron on Wednesday authorized police to use water cannons after four nights of rioting, looting and arson - saying a “fight back” is under way to restore law and order to Britain's streets.

• Wednesday, August 10th 2011 - 17:39 UTC

  UK tourism authority pulls down ‘Visit Britain’ ads and videos

  

  “Visit Britain”, the UK's tourism authority, has pulled a video promoting Britain with the tag line “You're Invited” from adverts running alongside BBC iPlayer programs overseas, reports The Guardian.

• Wednesday, August 10th 2011 - 05:38 UTC

  London relatively quite with 16.000 police, but rioting extends to other cities

  

  Hundreds of people were arrested as the worst rioting in a generation spread from London to cities across the length and breadth of England.

• Monday, August 8th 2011 - 03:48 UTC

  For Argentina Falklands/Malvinas sovereignty legitimacy conditions any other negotiation

  

  Argentina is not going to make things easy for Britain in the Falkland Islands and the first discussion, before any other issues are addressed, must be the legitimacy of the Malvinas Islands sovereignty, said Argentine Defence Minister Arturo Puricelli in a Sunday interview by Carolina Barrios published in the Buenos Aires Herald.

• Thursday, July 28th 2011 - 06:15 UTC

  UK to cooperate with Bolivia in the fight against drug trafficking

  

  The British government has announced a new co-operation deal with Bolivia in the fight against drug trafficking. During a two-day visit to Bolivia, Britain's Minister for Latin America, Jeremy Browne, said the Serious Organised Crime Agency in London will join forces with the counter-narcotics police in La Paz.

• Wednesday, July 27th 2011 - 04:54 UTC

  Argentina confident negotiations on Malvinas question ‘will take place’

  

  Britain can’t go on shielding behind its membership of the UN Security Council to avoid dialogue on the Falklands/Malvinas question, but Argentina is confident “negotiations will take place” said Foreign Affairs minister Hector Timerman in Paris following a meeting with his French peer Alain Juppé.

• Tuesday, July 19th 2011 - 23:28 UTC

  UK outlines new foreign and defence policies based on ‘building stability overseas’

  

  The British Government published this week a new strategy outlining how the UK will promote stability and prosperity in countries and regions where its interests are at stake particularly though improved early warning and crisis prevention.

• Tuesday, July 19th 2011 - 05:48 UTC

  British Airways: ‘World’s favourite airline’ grows in South America

  

  Over sixty five years ago, British South American Airways (BSAA) began flying to South America. The flights, which began in March 1946, were via Lisbon, Bathurst, Natal, Rio de Janiero and Montevideo, before landing in Buenos Aires, 35 hours later. The aircraft: an Avro Lancastrian. How times have changed.

• Monday, July 18th 2011 - 10:47 UTC

  Hague announces UK will appeal EC decision on Gibraltar waters

  

  Foreign Secretary William Hague said the Government has a clear responsibility to uphold the UK's position over the waters around Gibraltar and will be appealing a European Commission decision benefiting Spain.

• Friday, July 8th 2011 - 06:00 UTC

  Bank of England leaves rates on hold at record low 0.5%

  

  The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has kept UK interest rates on hold at a record low of 0.5%. Economists had expected no move in rates because the latest data has shown the UK economic recovery remains weak.