International

• Tuesday, September 16th 2014 - 05:04 UTC

  White House says it prefers the UK to remain “strong, robust and united”

  

  The White House weighed in carefully on the Scottish independence referendum, saying Washington would respect the outcome of the vote but would prefer the United Kingdom to remain “strong, robust and united.”

• Tuesday, September 16th 2014 - 03:03 UTC

  Leading Scottish business group calls for unity the day after the referendum

  

  A leading Scottish business group has called for the country to unite “to drive Scotland forward”, whatever the result of the independence referendum. The Scottish Chambers of Commerce said the outcome would leave “a substantial number” of people disappointed.

• Tuesday, September 16th 2014 - 02:54 UTC

  Gibraltar on National Day celebration calls on QE II to again visit the Rock

  

  Sixty years after her last visit the Chief Minister has called on Queen Elizabeth II to visit Gibraltar. He did so in a dramatic call during his National day speech. Fabian Picardo was flanked on stage by Gibraltar Government Ministers, Opposition MPs and a contingent of visiting British MPs and MEPs.

• Tuesday, September 16th 2014 - 02:42 UTC

  US insists with Argentina it does not support the UN sovereign debt debate

  

  As Argentine President Cristina Fernandez readies for her annual trip to New York to speak at the United Nations General Assembly, US interim ambassador in Buenos Aires Kevin Sullivan ratified that Washington will not back the UN sovereign debt resolution sparked by Argentina’s legal battle with its holdout creditors.

• Monday, September 15th 2014 - 06:23 UTC

  Argentina confirms payment to bondholders at the end of September

  

  Argentina will pay holders of its restructured sovereign debt, thanks to a bill passed by its Congress last week despite a US court ruling, the country's economy minister told a local radio show on Sunday.

• Monday, September 15th 2014 - 04:18 UTC

  The movements the Scotland independence vote has arousen in Europe

  

  In Europe's eastern half, the disintegration of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia created many new countries. In Western Europe, however, borders of the old nation states seemed to be carved in stone and although there have been secessionist tendencies, some of them militant, they never seemed to have a shot in reality, according to a Deutsche Welle report from Berlin.

• Monday, September 15th 2014 - 04:12 UTC

  “I hope people will think very carefully about the future”, QE II tells Scotland

  

  Queen Elizabeth II has broken her silence over the Scottish independence vote, saying she hopes Scots will “think very carefully” about the future when voting in a referendum that could break up the United Kingdom.

• Monday, September 15th 2014 - 04:07 UTC

  Spanish Judge Garzon praises Argentina's sovereign payment bill and UN resolution

  

  Former Spanish Judge and Human Rights activist Baltasar Garzon praised the Sovereign Payment law approved by Argentina’s Congress last week and described the United Nation’s resolution for the creation of a multilateral legal framework for sovereign debt restructuring process as “essential.”

• Monday, September 15th 2014 - 04:00 UTC

  PM Cameron promises to hunt down IS murderers of British hostage

  

  Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron chaired a meeting of the government's emergency response committee on Sunday under growing pressure to sanction air strikes after an Islamic State video showed the beheading of a British hostage.

• Saturday, September 13th 2014 - 07:11 UTC

  World cereal production forecasted to be a record in 2014, according to FAO

  

  FAO's Food Price Index is a trade-weighted index that measures prices of five major food commodities on international markets: in addition to sub-indices for prices of cereals, it also tracks meat, dairy products, vegetable oils, and sugar.