International

• Wednesday, July 9th 2014 - 08:04 UTC

  Gibraltar with port fee and re-fuelling discounts to attract cruise business

  

  Neil Costa, Gibraltar Minister for Tourism, Commercial Affairs, Public Transport and the Port, has welcomed the introduction of new port fee discounts and said they will further enhance the competitiveness of the Port of Gibraltar.

• Wednesday, July 9th 2014 - 07:35 UTC

  Clean-up process and 'zero tolerance' in Vatican bank plummets profits

  

  The Vatican bank has blocked the accounts of more than 2,000 clients and ended some 3,000 “customer relationships” as part of a clean-up process that nearly wiped out its profit, its 2013 financial statement showed on Tuesday.

• Wednesday, July 9th 2014 - 07:32 UTC

  Venezuela knocks on the door of international banks and promises to respect debt payments

  

  After slamming international banks for more than a decade, the Venezuelan government met with investment bankers to try to change the perception of risk associated to the country and prepare the scenario for upcoming economic measures.

• Wednesday, July 9th 2014 - 07:16 UTC

  Brazil's KO becomes open question for Dilma's re-election and social unrest

  

  Brazilians cried, cursed their president and covered their faces in shame after their beloved football team's humiliating 7-1 thrashing by Germany in the World Cup semi-finals Tuesday. President Dilma Rousseff twitted how sad she was with defeat but called on Brazilians “we won't let ourselves stay down”.

• Wednesday, July 9th 2014 - 07:07 UTC

  Falklands experience, according to former Argentine vice-president Cobos

  

  Fresh back from the Falkland Islands where he spent a week, Argentina's former vice-president and currently lawmaker Julio Cleto Cobos calls for closer links with the Islands, and insists that the “Malvinas Experience” (“Vivir Malvinas”) challenge should not be banned to nobody, rather the contrary.

• Tuesday, July 8th 2014 - 12:30 UTC

  IDB names Gustavo De Rosa Finance Manager and Chief Financial Officer

  

  The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) announced the appointment of Gustavo De Rosa as Finance Manager and Chief Financial Officer, effective November 1, 2014.

• Tuesday, July 8th 2014 - 08:33 UTC

  EU holders of restructured Argentine bonds begin court actions in Belgium

  

  Holders of restructured Argentine bonds took to Belgian courts against Euroclear and the Bank of New York last week over their failure to pay out Argentina’s deposit, newspaper Tiempo Argentino (*) reported, citing court documents signed by the funds’ legal counsel.

• Tuesday, July 8th 2014 - 07:44 UTC

  World Cup cleared of doping after more than 1.000 negative tests

  

  Every player tested for drugs at the World Cup in Brazil has been cleared of doping after more than 1,000 tests came back negative, FIFA's medical committee announced on Monday.

• Tuesday, July 8th 2014 - 07:35 UTC

  FIFA will take no disciplinary action against player who injured Neymar

  

  FIFA will not take action against the Colombia player who injured Neymar and ended the Brazil star's World Cup. FIFA said its disciplinary panel “cannot consider this matter” under the rules because the match referee saw the challenge by Camilo Zuniga and judged it at the time.

• Tuesday, July 8th 2014 - 07:25 UTC

  “Without Chile's help, we would have lost the Falklands”, says former RAF intelligence

  

  Chile's support for Britain during the Falklands War has been revealed for the first time by the man who was dispatched, with only hours notice, to secure a South American ally, according to an article in the Daily Telegraph credited to Harriet Alexander.