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EU agrees increases in fishing quotas

Brussels - Arab Today

The EU agreed new fishing quotas for the North Sea and the Atlantic for 2018 after all-night talks Wednesday, the last limits before Britain and its large fleet leave the bloc. The number of species fished to their "maximum sustainable" levels will increase next year to 53, nine more than in 2017, ministers agreed in Brussels. But additional limits willRead more

Expansion of tuna quotas 'step backward' for conservation

Paris - Arab Today

The 51-nation tuna fisheries body for the Atlantic and Mediterranean boosted quotas for highly prized bluefin despite scientific findings that doing so could threaten the species' recovery, delegates and observers at a key meeting said Tuesday. Country quotas for eastern bluefin tuna are to increase 50 percent, by increments, to 36,000 tonnes in 2020, sources told AFP at the conclusionRead more

Missouri problem mirrors woes

San Francisco - Arab Today

As an aggressive antitrust investigation plays out in Europe against Google, its practices have drawn comparatively little scrutiny from regulators on the US side of the Atlantic. But the midwest state of Missouri wants to change that. The state's Attorney General Josh Hawley has launched an investigation which appears to mirror the probe by EU authorities, demanding information on howRead more

EU-Mercosur free-trade pact supporters push for deal

Paris - Arab Today

Supporters of a free trade pact between the EU and the Mercosur states in South America, under negotiation for nearly 20 years, are seeking to swim against the current and secure a deal by the end of the year. "At a moment when the Anglo-Saxon world is in retreat on both sides of the Atlantic ... we should take advantageRead more

IMF warns against protectionism as Trump, Brexit loom

Washington - Arab Today

The International Monetary Fund renewed its warnings against protectionism on Thursday as nationalist political trends threaten trade integration on both sides of the Atlantic. As the IMF and World Bank kicked off what are normally staid meetings, with central bankers and finance ministers from 189 member countries gathering in Washington, anti-free trade rhetoric in the United States and Europe createdRead more

Hunting grounds

BONAVISTA - Arab Today

Shannon Mouland steadied himself in an aluminium boat, shotgun raised, as a thick-billed murre skittered above the slate-grey waters of the North Atlantic. Boom! And the bird cartwheeled into the sea. It’s “turr” season on The Rock, as this massive inkblot of an island is affectionately known. Turr is the local name for the murre, which looks something like aRead more

Girl, 10, dies after falling ill on Toronto-to-London flight

Toronto - ArabToday

A 10-year-old girl has died after falling ill aboard a trans-Atlantic Air Canada flight. The airline says Toronto-to-London flight AC868 diverted to Shannon, Ireland, on Saturday after the child suffered a medical problem. Air Canada says a doctor and a nurse were on board the plane and helped the flight crew to assist the child. Emergency crews met the aircraftRead more

Obama moves to tie Trump's hands

Washington - Arab Today

The White House blocked new leases for oil and gas drilling in sections of the Arctic and Atlantic Tuesday, a high-stakes bid to forestall exploration and tie Donald Trump's hands. With Trump is bringing a strident pro-oil stance to the White House, the outgoing administration has launched a rearguard action. President Barack Obama announced he was placing swaths of theRead more

5.1-magnitude quake hits Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge -- USGS

New York - XINHUA

An earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale jolted Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge at 17:49:31 GMT on Friday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The epicenter, with a depth of 9.79 km, was initially determined to be at 14.5919 degrees north latitude and 45.116 degrees west longitude. Source : XINHUARead more

Solar plane powers on over Atlantic after turbulence

Madrid - AFP

The Solar Impulse 2 plane went through "a long night of turbulence" over the Atlantic, its weary pilot said Wednesday as he continued on the challenging leg of its sun-powered trip around the world. The experimental plane, which took off from New York's John F. Kennedy airport on Monday, is flying over the Atlantic at the hands of Swiss adventurerRead more