Tag: United Kingdom

Tuesday, March 23rd 2021 - 09:49 UTC
Andy Keeling: New Chief Executive to arrive in the Falklands next week

Andy Keeling, the new Chief Executive for the Falkland Islands Government is due to arrive in the Islands next week to start the transition of power following a month-long handover with current Chief Executive Barry Rowland. Mr. Keeling will undertake two weeks of quarantine before start working with Mr. Rowland, the Falkland Islands Government announced on Monday.
Saturday, March 20th 2021 - 08:44 UTC
G7 finance ministers agree on “a new and sizeable” increase in IMF capital; US demands transparency

REUTERS – The world's seven largest advanced economies have agreed to support the first expansion of the International Monetary Fund's reserves since 2009, a step meant to help developing countries cope with the coronavirus pandemic, Britain announced on Friday.
Saturday, March 20th 2021 - 08:44 UTC
Boris Johnson received the first dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine, “I did not feel a thing”

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson received his first dose of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine on Friday and urged the public to do the same, saying “he did not feel a thing.”
Thursday, March 18th 2021 - 20:28 UTC
UK, Argentina and the Falklands signed an agreement for the second phase to identify soldiers fallen in 1982

The governments of the United Kingdom, the Falkland Islands and Argentina agreed on Thursday to carry out a new stage of the Humanitarian Project Plan that began in 2017 and has allowed the identification of 115 Argentine soldiers fallen during the 1982 armed conflict. The agreement was signed at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Geneva, Switzerland and the Plan will be resumed in August, as confirmed by the British Embassy in Buenos Aires.
Wednesday, March 17th 2021 - 08:55 UTC
UK's overhaul of foreign and defense policy: Democracy is in retreat around the world, Minister Raab

Democracy is in retreat around the world, British foreign minister Dominic Raab will warn on Wednesday in a speech setting out the danger that autocratic regimes pose to global stability and prosperity.
Wednesday, March 17th 2021 - 08:39 UTC
Regular booster vaccines will be needed against Covid-19, because of mutations

Regular booster vaccines against the coronavirus will be needed because of mutations that make it more transmissible and better able to evade human immunity, the head of Britain's effort to sequence the virus' genomes said.
Tuesday, March 16th 2021 - 09:14 UTC
EU launches legal action against Britain over Northern Ireland and alleged Brexit accord breach

The European Union launched legal action against Britain on Monday for unilaterally changing trading arrangements for Northern Ireland that Brussels says breach the Brexit divorce deal agreed with London last year.
Tuesday, March 16th 2021 - 08:40 UTC
Britain's Johnson to announce review of defense and foreign policy: more nukes and military presence worldwide

Britain is to announce an increase to its nuclear weapons stockpile as part of a wide-ranging review of security, defense, and foreign policy, two newspapers anticipated on Monday. The Guardian and The Sun said in their online editions that the UK would look to raise the number of warheads from 180 to 260 by the middle of the decade.
Monday, March 15th 2021 - 08:53 UTC
UK, Gibraltar/Spain international agreement of Taxation has entered into force

The UK has ratified the International Agreement on Taxation and the Protection of Financial Interests between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Kingdom of Spain regarding Gibraltar.
Wednesday, March 10th 2021 - 09:30 UTC
UK/EU controversy over “vaccine nationalism” and exports bans

European Council President Charles Michel on Tuesday rejected charges of “vaccine nationalism” leveled against the EU, saying that while Britain and the United States have outright bans on exports of COVID-19 shots, the EU had not stopped exporting.