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AS I SEE IT

Politics is getting nastier almost everywhere

28-09-2019 04:19 Decorum is an increasingly rare political phenomenon.

by James Neilson

DIPLOMACY

Alberto Fernández renews contact with key foreign embassiess

17-09-2019 17:30 Frente de Todos presidential frontrunner and his team of advisers look to renew contact with key foreign embassies and diplomats, including the United States, the United Kingdom and members of the European Union.

by Aurelio Tomás

BREXIT

UK PM Johnson weakened by Tory party defections over Brexit

03-09-2019 15:35 MPs returned from their summer recess to confront PM over his insistence that the United Kingdom leave the European Union on October 31, even without a withdrawal agreement to cushion the economic blow.

BREXIT

UK election threat looms as Johnson fights Tory Brexit rebels

02-09-2019 12:32 Allies of Prime Minister Boris Johnson are considering a snap poll as he battles his opponents in Parliament who are trying to stop him taking the UK out of the EU without a deal on October 31.

EUROPEAN POLITICS

Curtains for Italy's first post-war populist government

29-08-2019 12:56 The end of Italy's first post-war government experiment with far-right populists marks a stunning defeat for League leader Matteo Salvini, but his political career is far from over.

BREXIT

UK PM Johnson triggers outrage with move to suspend Parliament

28-08-2019 09:01 Angry opponents brand move by Brexit-favouring PM Boris Johnson as a "coup," a "declaration of war," and an "offence against democracy."

AMAZON IN FLAMES

Global outrage forces Bolsonaro to act, sending Army to contain Amazon fires

23-08-2019 16:01 Under increasing international pressure to contain record numbers of fires in the Amazon, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said Friday he might send the military to battle the massive blazes.

EUROPE

Italian PM Conte to resign after League party pulls backing

20-08-2019 13:15 Conte's decided to step down after a potential no-confidence sought by far-right Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini.

ARGENTINES IN EUROPE

Resurgent Lo Celso ready to shine at Tottenham

10-08-2019 13:01 Giovani Lo Celso, the “little monkey” to his team-mates and once the “ruby of Argentine football,” has become the next great hope for Tottenham Hotspur and Mauricio Pochettino.

Pumas

Imhoff overlooked as Pumas name foreign-based players for All Blacks clash

15-07-2019 17:14 Argentina included five European-based players for next weekend's Rugby Championship match against New Zealand.

EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK

EU leaders nominate IMF chief Christine Lagarde to be the new president of ECB

02-07-2019 16:37 Lagarde has resigned from her duties as Managing Director of the IMF during the nomination period. At the IMF, Lagarde helped negotiate the fund’s biggest ever bailout when it handed more aid last year to Argentina.

CHAMPIONS LEAGUE

Red is the colour of my true love’s shirt, even if in Poch’s Argentina I often walk alone

01-06-2019 09:12 By amazing coincidence, the Times small staff includes lifelong fans of both Champions League finalists. Honorary Editor Michael Soltys explains why red is the colour of his true love’s shirt, even if in Pochettino’s Argentina he often walks alone.

by Michael Soltys

ON BREXIT

The Brexit clock is ticking, but nothing seems to be happening – yet

13-10-2018 09:49 People avoid talking about Brexit in the knowledge that there is nothing much to talk about. There is no certainty in any of the government announcements and even less in the political commitments.

by Andrew Graham-Yooll

EUROPEAN EUPHORIA

South American sorrow as Brazil and Uruguay crash out of World Cup

07-07-2018 08:19 Belgium and France progress to semi-finals, two from Croatia, England, Russia and Sweden will join them in last four.

AS I SEE IT

The clock is ticking for the European Union

23-06-2018 13:18 The euro was a tragic mistake; a generation of Greeks, Italians and Spaniards has been sacrificed on the altar of the single currency.

by James Neilson

WASHINGTON GOES IT ALONE

Trump’s tariffs leave allies seeking new friends

02-06-2018 09:26 UY president undermines longstanding alliances by slapping key allies and trading partners — Canada, Mexico and the EU — with tariffs on steel and aluminum. All vow to retaliate by penalising US products in response.

40 years after dictator's death

Spain starts work to exhume bodies from Franco-era monument

24-04-2018 13:59 Experts begin inspections of vast mausoleum where dictator is buried along with thousands of victims of Spain's civil war, in preparation for potential exhumations.

RACISM AND XENOPHOBIA

Far-right views go mainstream in Central Europe

05-04-2018 12:20 On a recent visit to Argentina, Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic thanked the country for providing post-war refuge to Croats who had belonged to the Ustasha regime. Such rhetoric is illustrative of how views once seen as taboo and confined to the far-right are moving into the mainstream.

MEDELLÍN BIODIVERSITY MEETING

Report: Humanity imperiled by global abuse of natural resources

23-03-2018 14:17 Human activity has driven animals and plants into decline in every region of the world, putting our own well-being at risk by over-harvesting and polluting, a comprehensive species survey warned Friday.