International

• Friday, September 11th 2015 - 06:45 UTC

  UN Assembly overwhelmingly supports Argentina in the sovereign debt debate

  

  The United Nations General Assembly has approved a resolution put forward by Argentina regarding sovereign debt restructuring, which seeks to limit the movement of speculative funds in influencing such actions.

• Thursday, September 10th 2015 - 08:25 UTC

  Queen Elizabeth thanks well-wishers for their 'touching messages of kindness'

  

  Queen Elizabeth has thanked well-wishers in the UK and overseas for their “touching messages of kindness” as she becomes Britain's longest-reigning monarch. Speaking in the Scottish Borders, the 89-year-old monarch said the title was “not one to which I have ever aspired”.

• Thursday, September 10th 2015 - 08:14 UTC

  Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein makes official his bid to head FIFA and slams Platini

  

  Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein of Jordan wastes no time in slamming Michel Platini as he announces his bid to succeed Sepp Blatter as head of world football's governing body. After hinting at a second run for the FIFA presidency at the Soccerex Global Convention in Manchester on Monday, the Jordanian officially launched his campaign on Wednesday in Amman.

• Thursday, September 10th 2015 - 07:52 UTC

  Brazil loses investment-grade credit rating, with outlook remaining negative

  

  Standard & Poor's has stripped Brazil of its investment-grade credit rating, further hampering President Dilma Rousseff's efforts to regain market trust and pull Latin America's largest economy out of recession.

• Thursday, September 10th 2015 - 07:35 UTC

  Economists' open letter to UN: political power must be preeminent in handling economic policy

  

  European countries must support the United Nations’ proposals for sovereign debt restructuring! – Open letter to the UN by 19 economists.On Thursday September 10, the United Nations General Assembly will vote on nine principles concerning the restructuring of sovereign debts.

• Thursday, September 10th 2015 - 06:32 UTC

  Lula da Silva pictured with the Pope's Malvinas-dialogue poster

  

  Brazil's former president Lula da Silva was pictured holding Pope Francis' poster calling for dialogue in the 'Malvinas issue'.

• Wednesday, September 9th 2015 - 13:56 UTC

  Pope Francis makes substantial changes to marriage annulment procedures

  

  Pope Francis, making the most substantial changes to Catholic marriage annulment procedures in centuries, on Tuesday radically simplified them and said bishops should give greater help to divorced couples.

• Wednesday, September 9th 2015 - 13:10 UTC

  A forest area equivalent to South Africa has been lost since 1990, says FAO

  

  The world's forests continue to shrink as populations increase and forest land is converted to agriculture and other uses, but over the past 25 years the rate of net global deforestation has slowed down by more than 50%, FAO said in a report published on Tuesday.

• Wednesday, September 9th 2015 - 08:23 UTC

  Germany willing to take half a million refugees annually over several years

  

  Germany said it could take half a million refugees annually over several years as Greek islands struggled on Tuesday to process a huge backlog of migrants desperate to travel to western Europe. Reflecting deepening concern, the European Union's president warned the EU faced a years-long refugee crisis, while the UN urged countries worldwide to help tackle the problem.

• Wednesday, September 9th 2015 - 07:45 UTC

  World Bank calls on the Fed to delay raising rates fearing 'panic and turmoil' in emerging markets

  

  The international economics establishment has stepped up pressure on the Federal Reserve to delay raising interest rates, with the World Bank the latest institution to warn that the US central bank risks sparking “panic and turmoil” in emerging markets if it increases rates next week.