International

• Monday, October 6th 2014 - 11:45 UTC

  Euro zone, an economy struggling against multiple headwinds

  

  A survey measuring business activity in the Euro zone shows the economy remains “stuck in a rut”, according to the company behind the report. The Euro zone purchasing managers index (PMI) fell to 52 in September, down from an initial estimate of 52.3.

• Monday, October 6th 2014 - 07:33 UTC

  Italian holdouts, following on Paul Singer, present demand against Argentina

  

  Italian bondholders filed a complaint order to United States District Judge Thomas Griesa asking to be given the same benefits as Aurelius Management and NML Management, the “holdouts” that were authorized by Griesa to be paid the full debt Argentina has with them.

• Monday, October 6th 2014 - 07:07 UTC

  EU and US advance in trade talks but high barriers remain

  

  Officials from the United States and the European Union say they have made progress as they seek to sweep away trade barriers. Teams from the two sides have held a week of discussions in Chevy Chase, Maryland. If successful an agreement would create the world's biggest free trade zone.

• Monday, October 6th 2014 - 06:48 UTC

  Spanish fighter jets enter Gibraltar air space in “reckless and dangerous” stunt

  

  Spanish fighter jets illegally entered UK airspace to fly “across the bows” of a British airliner in a “reckless and dangerous” stunt over Gibraltar, according to a report in the Sunday Express.

• Monday, October 6th 2014 - 06:34 UTC

  BBC2 To Gear claims “they threw us out of Argentina for the political capital”

  

  BBC2’s Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson has said his crew did nothing wrong and affirmed “someone could have been killed”, following incidents in which a group of people in Tierra del Fuego threw stones at their cars, thinking the license plates they used for filming were directly alluding to the Falklands/Malvinas War.

• Monday, October 6th 2014 - 06:21 UTC

  Conference on Hudson, “An Argentine writer that wrote in English”

  

  Argentine ambassador to the UK Alicia Castro and Argentina's National Library head Horacio Gonzalez took part in a conference held at the British Library last Friday in London to promote “cultural cooperation and dialogue” between the two countries.

• Monday, October 6th 2014 - 05:56 UTC

  Dilma (40%) and Neves (34%) to the runoff; mathematically the opposition can win

  

  Brazil's unpredictable election took another twist Sunday, with populist President Dilma Rousseff forced into a runoff race as expected, but against a center-right challenger who only surged in the final week of the campaign.

• Sunday, October 5th 2014 - 10:05 UTC

  Huge gathering or Pacific walruses in Alaska beach because of climate change

  

  Scientists have photographed the largest gathering of Pacific walruses ever recorded, on a beach in northern Alaska, blaming climate change for the estimated 35,000 females and calves huddled beside the Chukchi Sea.

• Saturday, October 4th 2014 - 10:44 UTC

  Obama and Cameron condemn brutal murder of British captive Alan Henning

  

  President Barack Obama condemned on Friday the “brutal” murder of British captive Alan Henning on Friday, saying the United States would bring those responsible to justice.

• Saturday, October 4th 2014 - 10:38 UTC

  Investors on edge waiting for the results of Sunday's voting in Brazil

  

  Latin American currencies weakened on Friday after strong U.S. jobs data was seen as increasing the likelihood of higher interest rates in the world's largest economy, while Brazil markets fluttered in the last trading session before Oct. 5 elections.