International

• 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.

• 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.

• Friday, October 9th 2015 - 07:39 UTC

  Eirik Raude oil rig operating in Falklands, faces scrapping after contract ends January 2016

  

  Ocean Rig, the Greek offshore drilling contractor has highlighted in its latest fleet update two rigs coming out of employment shortly with no immediate prospects. Both rigs have little or no “further prospects of employment” according to Ocean Rig and will be cold stacked while disposing of or scrapping the rigs is considered.