International

• Tuesday, March 18th 2014 - 00:13 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez holds two-hour private meeting with the Pope and then flies to France

  

  President Cristina Fernández (with a sprained ankle in a boot) and Pope Francis shared on Monday a lunch which lasted two hours and a half at Santa Marta residence in the Vatican. It's the third time the Argentine head of state and Francis meet since he was elected pontiff one year ago.

• Monday, March 17th 2014 - 15:56 UTC

  FIFA top committee to address Qatar (Cup 2022) labor working conditions

  

  A new report from the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) exposes how far Qatar will go to deny workers their rights, ahead of a critical FIFA Executive Committee meeting on Thursday 20th March in Zurich.

• Monday, March 17th 2014 - 15:46 UTC

  PM Cameron suggests more devolution in fiscal matters if Scotland votes NO

  

  The Scottish Parliament could gain more power over tax if voters reject independence, said British Prime Minister. A No vote on September 18 is “not the end of line” for devolution, David Cameron told the Scottish Conservative party conference in Edinburgh.

• Saturday, March 15th 2014 - 08:06 UTC

  UN draft resolution states Crimea's Sunday referendum 'has no validity'

  

  A draft UN Security Council resolution declares that Sunday's planned referendum on Crimea's status “can have no validity” and urges nations and international organizations not to recognize it, according to a copy obtained by Reuters.

• Saturday, March 15th 2014 - 07:55 UTC

  Argentina will be present with a pavilion at the Boston Seafood Expo

  

  Argentina will be present at the Boston Seafood Expo North America, which is considered the most important of the United States and is scheduled for March 16/18, announced the Argentine Foreign ministry indicating it was part of the government's campaign to increase and diversify foreign trade and exports.

• Saturday, March 15th 2014 - 04:58 UTC

  Argentine government picks on Swire interview to attack opposition leaders

  

  Argentine cabinet chief Jorge Capitanich claimed that UK's preference to talk about the Falklands/Malvinas dispute with opposition presidential hopefuls, clearly means that “these leaders are willing to a greater flexibility regarding foreign interests in the dispute”.

• Saturday, March 15th 2014 - 04:51 UTC

  Creditor nations Paris Club and Argentina will begin debt discussions in May

  

  The Argentine government confirmed on Friday that the Paris Club of creditor nations have invited the country to start formal negotiations towards the end of May, apparently following on the proposal made by the Cristina Fernandez administration last January.

• Saturday, March 15th 2014 - 04:37 UTC

  The Crimean oblast at the heart of a dispute that goes deep into Russian history

  

  On February 27, 1954 Pravda published a short announcement on its front page that the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR had decreed on February 19 the transfer of the Crimean oblast' from the RSFSR to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.

• Saturday, March 15th 2014 - 04:12 UTC

  “Crimea means more to Russia than the Falklands to Britain”

  

  Crimea means more to Russia than the Falklands mean to Britain, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday after holding last-ditch talks on the region with his U.S. counterpart John Kerry.

• Friday, March 14th 2014 - 10:15 UTC

  Falklands' referendum a year ago remembered at the Australian parliament

  

  One year on from the Falkland Islands' referendum and public diplomacy efforts are paying dividends according to Members of Legislative Assembly Mike Summers and Michael Poole, reports the latest edition of the Penguin News.