International

• Sunday, October 23rd 2016 - 06:31 UTC

  Hackers' coordinated 'attacks' leave major websites inaccessible in the US

  

  Major websites were inaccessible to people across wide swaths of the United States on Friday after a company that manages crucial parts of the internet’s infrastructure said it was under attack. Users reported sporadic problems reaching several websites, including Twitter, Netfix, Spotify, Airbnb, Reddit, Etsy, SoundCloud and The New York Times.

• Saturday, October 22nd 2016 - 10:20 UTC

  Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Voyages will be operating from Miami by 2020

  

  Sir Richard Branson’s new Caribbean cruise line is moving forward, and it’s got a new name. At a press conference in Miami on Tuesday, the new cruise line announced that it will now operate under the name Virgin Voyages.

• Saturday, October 22nd 2016 - 09:33 UTC

  US receives Monday OAS Electoral observation mission ahead of 8 November vote

  

  Next Monday, October 24th, the Chief of the Organization of American States Electoral Observation Mission (OAS/EOM) to the United States, former Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla, will begin a preliminary visit to the United States during which she will hold meetings with key authorities and stakeholders of the electoral process in the states of Georgia and Pennsylvania, as well as the District of Columbia.

• Friday, October 21st 2016 - 08:25 UTC

  UK is still a full member of the EU and will attend all meetings, PM May tells Europe

  

  Prime Minister Theresa May told EU leaders that Britain would not just rubber-stamp agreements made between the other member states when they meet as 27. In her first European Council, she said that as long as the UK was a full member of the EU, it wanted a seat at the table for discussions over the bloc’s future.

• Friday, October 21st 2016 - 08:15 UTC

  Euro central bank leaves rates and stimulus program unchanged

  

  The European Central Bank left its key interest rates and its bond-buying stimulus program unchanged on Thursday as it seeks more data on the strength of Europe’s modest economic recovery. The decision came at a meeting of the bank’s 25 member governing council at its headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany.

• Friday, October 21st 2016 - 08:06 UTC

  García-Margallo claims “confidential” talks on co-sovereignty with Gibraltar personalities

  

  Spain’s caretaker Minister for Foreign Affairs, José Manuel García-Margallo, claimed that he had held “confidential” talks on co-sovereignty with “personalities” in Gibraltar. However the minister gave no indication as to who he had spoken to, according to Spanish press reports.

• Friday, October 21st 2016 - 07:29 UTC

  Falklands' military exercises trigger protests in Buenos Aires against Macri and UK embassy

  

  Extreme left wing organizations protested on Thursday outside Britain's embassy in Buenos Aires against UK military exercises which are being carried out in the disputed Falkland Islands. The groups also slammed the Argentine government's pursuit of closer ties with the United Kingdom.

• Friday, October 21st 2016 - 02:56 UTC

  Brazilian central bank lowers basic rate 0.25 points on more optimistic recovery data

  

  Brazil's central bank cut its key interest rate for the first time in more than three years on Wednesday as a new center-right government's reforms fuel hopes of a recovery in Latin America's largest economy. The bank lowered the benchmark Selic rate by 0.25 points, to 14%, still one of the world's highest, and cited a dip in inflation and forecasts that a long recession -- Brazil's worst in a century -- is nearing its end.

• Thursday, October 20th 2016 - 20:31 UTC

  Argentine navy admits testing refurbished Exocet missiles and torpedoes last February

  

  The Argentine ministry of Defense has confirmed that the Navy was involved in military exercises in the high seas last February including firing an upgraded version of MM38 Exocet missiles and trials with a refurbished torpedo from a submarine, reports the Buenos Aires media.

• Thursday, October 20th 2016 - 12:50 UTC

  Strong reactions from Andalucía and London to Garcia Margallo Gibraltar shared sovereignty rhetoric

  

  The Junta de Andalucia has distanced itself from Spanish foreign minister Jose Manuel García Margallo’s joint sovereignty proposal for Gibraltar. Miguel Angel Vasquez says now is not the time to use inflammatory rhetoric or to talk about joint sovereignty.