Stories for October 2015

Saturday, October 10th 2015 - 07:24 UTC
Rousseff fears “Paraguay-style democratic coup” to remove her from office

President Dilma Rousseff said in a closed-door meeting that Brazil is experiencing a “Paraguayan-style democratic coup,” alluding to the 2012 removal of Paraguay's then-head of state, the Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper reported Friday.
Saturday, October 10th 2015 - 07:11 UTC
Opposition will push for impeachment proceedings against Rousseff next week

Brazil opposition lawmakers will push for impeachment proceedings to begin next week against embattled President Dilma Rousseff, local media reported Friday. It comes after the country’s top audit court, the TCU, ruled that the government’s 2014 accounts had been manipulated in the run-up to last year’s presidential elections to give a better impression of the economy and sustain spending on social programs.
Saturday, October 10th 2015 - 06:52 UTC
Nobel Peace Prize to only surviving member of the 'Arab spring”

The 2015 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to Tunisia's National Dialogue Quartet for its efforts to bring democracy to the country, where the political upheaval in 2011 sparked pro-democracy movements throughout the Arab world.
Saturday, October 10th 2015 - 06:37 UTC
Nobel literature for lady in love with kind Russia, “not that of Stalin or Putin”

Belarusian writer and dissident Svetlana Alexievich won the 2015 Nobel Literature Prize on Thursday for her work chronicling the horrors of war and life under the repressive Soviet regime.
Saturday, October 10th 2015 - 06:27 UTC
Global Unions call on IMF and World Bank should take recession threats seriously

Given the Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank taking place in Lima, Peru, the International Trade Union Conference, ITUC, and its Global Unions partners call on the international financial institutions to adopt policies that counter the global economic slowdown.
Saturday, October 10th 2015 - 06:11 UTC
The Pope’s Subversive Message

The following piece by Arthur C. Brooks (*) was published in The New York Times opinion page. It is a strong view on Francis's visit significance for US Catholicism.
Saturday, October 10th 2015 - 02:56 UTC
FIFA in turmoil: Blatter appeals suspension; emergency meeting 20 October

FIFA president Sepp Blatter has appealed against the 90-day ban that forced him out of office, as world football's sleaze-tainted governing body headed into months of turmoil over how to find a new leader.
Saturday, October 10th 2015 - 02:38 UTC
“Enough is enough”, FIFA needs 'credible external presidential candidate', says IOC head

International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach has issued his strongest critique of FIFA and urged the scandal-tainted federation to seek a “credible external presidential candidate” to regain credibility.
Saturday, October 10th 2015 - 02:20 UTC
Gibraltar invited to high level security briefing at Ministry of Defense in London

Gibraltar's Chief Minister Fabian Picardo has been invited to attend a high level security briefing at the Ministry of Defense in London next week, part of a drive by the British Government to foster closer links with the Government of Gibraltar.
Friday, October 9th 2015 - 10:20 UTC
Corriere Della Sera apologizes to Cristina Fernandez for publishing 'false news on her shopping'

A Roman appeals court has confirmed a ruling against Italy’s Corriere Della Sera newspaper for a defamatory piece on Argentine president Cristina Fernández.