International

• Tuesday, October 13th 2015 - 07:38 UTC

  Cash strapped London police lifts standing watch for Assange at Ecuadorian embassy

  

  London's cash-strapped police will no longer keep officers stationed outside the Ecuadorean embassy to catch WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has been holed up inside for over three years, the force said.

• Tuesday, October 13th 2015 - 07:26 UTC

  The 'big three' credit rating agencies questioned by UN for their 'subjectivity'

  

  Credit ratings agencies have been questioned by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), who says they favor countries with a certain ideological bent.

• Monday, October 12th 2015 - 09:32 UTC

  Standard Chartered bank plans to cut 1.000 senior jobs

  

  Standard Chartered bank, a London-based lender that makes most of its profit in Asia, could cut up to 1,000 senior jobs, according to an internal memo sent to staff. The move from chief executive Bill Winters is meant to cut costs.

• Monday, October 12th 2015 - 09:18 UTC

  Lagarde blasts US Congress for blocking reforms: “they jeopardize IMF's credibility”

  

  Washington's use of its de facto veto at the International Monetary Fund to block reforms giving emerging countries a greater say is jeopardizing the IMF's credibility, complained Managing Director Christine Lagarde.

• Monday, October 12th 2015 - 06:22 UTC

  Scioli leads presidential race in Argentina but still a puff short to avoid runoff

  

  Argentine ruling party's candidate Daniel Scioli maintains a commanding lead in the presidential race but still lacks enough voter support to win outright in the first round, an opinion poll by the Poliarquia consultancy showed on Sunday.

• Monday, October 12th 2015 - 06:19 UTC

  “Under no condition, I might resign” says Brazil's Lower House speaker

  

  The speaker of Brazil's lower house of Congress ruled out resigning in response to pressure from colleagues over allegations that he took bribes and stashed the money in Swiss bank accounts.

• Monday, October 12th 2015 - 06:16 UTC

  Petrobras corruption scandal could reach US$ 5.3bn: “we've only seen the tip of the iceberg”

  

  Damage from the gargantuan corruption scandal centered on Brazilian state oil company Petrobras could amount to as much as 20 billion Reais ($5.3 billion), a lead prosecutor revealed last week.

• 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.