International

• Tuesday, November 10th 2015 - 05:56 UTC

  Rajoy says “Catalonia is not going anywhere, nothing is going to break”

  

  Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy announced on Monday his government would file an appeal with the Constitutional Court to ensure that an independence declaration backed by the Catalan regional parliament has “no consequences”, he told a news conference.

• Monday, November 9th 2015 - 08:38 UTC

  Major exhibition of the Antarctic legacy of Sir Ernest Shackleton and Frank Hurley at the RGS

  

  A major new exhibition on Shackleton’s Endurance Expedition will open at the Royal Geographical Society (RGS), London, on 21 November, with an off-shoot exhibition coming to South Georgia early in 2016. The exhibitions are inspired by the glass plate negatives taken by Endurance expedition photographer Frank Hurley, according to the latest edition of the South Georgia Newsletter

• Monday, November 9th 2015 - 08:15 UTC

  Border conflict erupts between Chile and Peru over a 10 acre wedge of land

  

  The fragile relations between neighboring Chile and Peru appeared to unwind further Saturday, after Peruvian President Ollanta Humala officially recognized an administrative district in a disputed border area. The Chilean government promptly sent a protest note to Peru “strongly” rejecting the law because it concerns “unquestionably” Chilean territory.

• Saturday, November 7th 2015 - 08:36 UTC

  Falkland Islanders attended the Commonwealth Youth Parliament in Australia

  

  Young Falkland Islanders, Ulia Sytchova and Vicky Collier recently represented the Falkland Islands at the 7th Commonwealth Youth Parliament (CYP) in Darwin, Australia from November first to five.

• Saturday, November 7th 2015 - 07:08 UTC

  Falklands/Malvinas soldiers' remains: Argentine delegation meets Red Cross chief

  

  Argentina's Foreign Ministry Secretary for Malvinas affairs Ambassador Daniel Filmus, and Argentine ambassador before international organizations in Geneva, Alberto D'Alotto, met on Thursday with the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Peter Maurer, to address the issue of identifying the remains of 123 soldiers Argentine fallen during the South Atlantic conflict in 1982 and buried in the Argentine cemetery at Darwin, in the Falkland Islands.

• Friday, November 6th 2015 - 18:56 UTC

  Falklands' maps and 'The Times' report manipulated in Argentine embassy pamphlets

  

  By Justin A Kuntz - There are many examples of the power of social media to quickly form and mould world opinion. One recent example is that of Dr Tim Hunt, a Nobel Prize winner, whose professional reputation was utterly destroyed on Twitter whilst airborne during a return flight from Korea. Increasingly social media is also seen as a crucial communication tool for politicians and opinion makers to master.

• Friday, November 6th 2015 - 14:54 UTC

  Why America invented Ahmad Chalabi

  

  The following piece by Gideon Rose (*) was published in The New York Times Opinion page and helps to understand much about the Iraq war and ongoing instability.

• Friday, November 6th 2015 - 08:57 UTC

  Two British bankers convicted in the US for manipulation of the Libor rate

  

  Two British bankers have been convicted by a New York jury of manipulating inter-bank lending rates. Anthony Allen and Anthony Conti were charged with conspiracy to commit wire and bank fraud and committing wire fraud, by misreporting the London interbank offered rate (Libor) as it related to the US dollar. Both worked for Dutch lender Rabobank.

• Friday, November 6th 2015 - 08:23 UTC

  Recovery at “a modest pace” in the EU and Euro-zone next year

  

  The economic recovery within the European Union and the eurozone should continue at “a modest pace” next year, the EU has forecast. The economy of the 28-nation EU is set to grow by 1.9% this year, 2.0% in 2016 and by 2.1% the year after.

• Friday, November 6th 2015 - 08:05 UTC

  The ambitious TPP trade deal full text of 6.000 pages released to the public

  

  The long-awaited text of the landmark trade deal called the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has been released to the public for the first time. The text still has to be translated into the languages of the signatories. The TPP is one of the world's most extensive trade agreements, bringing together 12 Pacific rim countries, including the US and Japan.