The Spanish Senate has agreed to establish a permanent base for some 2,200 Marines who can react swiftly to crises in Africa.
The base at Morón de la Frontera, about 60 kms south-east of Seville, already serves approximately 800 US rapid reaction troops who were deployed on a temporary basis following an attack in 2012 on a US mission in Benghazi, Libya.
Although collectively in agreement, each overseas BES depositor ripped off by Ricardo Salgado’s last-ditch attempt to save Grupo Espírito Santo, is to mount an individual court action.
Hundreds of overseas customers that ended up with their savings invested in risky commercial paper instead of BES deposits will go to court to demand the annulment of the investment and for their money back.
After a two month period of downtime, the SEF will be working with new Golden Visa rules as from Thursday 3rd September.
The Foreigners and Borders Service (SEF) suspended the Golden Visa programme on July 1st as there had been a distinct lack of joined up thinking when the old legal framework was upgraded.
The budget airline says that passenger numbers amounted to 10.4 million in August, another record for the company.
The August figures are 10% greater than they were in the same month last year and flights this August were reported to be 95% full.
The focus in Portugal’s justice system have been on the poor performance of the CITIUS computer programme which was meant to bit chunks from the backlog of cases.
Launched a year ago, and re-launched six weeks later after ‘teething troubles’ the new system seems to work in part but the caseload piling up at the country’s courts is more to do with a lack of people than the system, especially as many current cases have been filed under pending and others simply have disappeared.
The UK’s next £20 note is to be printed on plastic, according to the Bank of England which says the use of the polymer was favoured by 87% of the respondents in a 10-week consultation.
This is the third bank note which is to be converted to polymer. In December 2013, the Bank announced that the ne next £5 and £10 banknotes will be on the plastic.
The government of Nepal has not spent anything on reconstruction after its deadly earthquake four months ago nor has it even made any arrangements to receive the $4.1 billion promised by international aid organisations and governments.
An estimated 10% of the population is still in need of food, shelter and basic medical care, according to the UN, which believes that nearly three million survivors require help. Many of them live in remote mountain villages which are difficult to reach.
With the publication in the official gazette, the plan officially started on September 1st with the council announcing "this was the culmination of a process that existed 13 years ago, when the city of Lagos saw its municipal master plan annulled."
The last plan was suspended due to a 1996 wrangle over some land which led to the plan for the entire municipality being suspended until now.
The new municipal plan was started 12 years ago and the final version was approved at a council assembly in June.
