International

• Wednesday, October 16th 2013 - 08:18 UTC

  Hedge funds request US Appeals court to lift hold on a ruling to repay holders

  

  US hedge funds fighting Argentina for repayment on defaulted debt asked a US appeals court on Tuesday to lift its hold on a ruling that ordered Argentina to repay the holders.

• Wednesday, October 16th 2013 - 00:33 UTC

  Premier Oil, with Falklands’ interests buys into exploration project in Kenya

  

  Premier Oil, which has a farm in agreement with Falkland Islands Rockhopper Exploration, is buying into an exploration project in Kenya, by farming into onshore Block 2B.

• Tuesday, October 15th 2013 - 23:19 UTC

  Spain says Andalucia must have equal status to Gibraltar in any ad hoc UK/Madrid talks

  

  The Junta de Andalucia must have an equal status to Gibraltar in any UK/Spain talks in which the British Overseas Territory participates, Spain’s Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia Margallo declared at a press conference following a meeting with Junta president Susana Diaz.

• Tuesday, October 15th 2013 - 23:13 UTC

  Argentine dictatorship human rights case involving Mercedes Benz reaches US Supreme Court

  

  Disappearances allegedly perpetrated during the last Argentine dictatorship by automaker Mercedes Benz will be discussed at the US Supreme Court as part of a civil suit launched by victims and relatives against the subsidiary of Germany’s Daimler.

• Tuesday, October 15th 2013 - 23:09 UTC

  Chevron/Ecuadorean villagers case in new chapter before a US Judge

  

  Chevron Corp will try to convince a US judge that a group of Ecuadorean villagers and their US lawyer used bribery to win a 18 billion dollars judgment against Chevron from a court in Ecuador, in the latest chapter in a long-running fight over pollution in the Amazon jungle.

• Tuesday, October 15th 2013 - 18:15 UTC

  HMS Protector leaves for Antarctica from Portsmouth but will return to Davenport

  

  Royal Navy’s newest ice patrol ship HMS Protector leaves Portsmouth this week on deployment to Antarctica, but she will be returning to Davenport, where she is to be based in the future.

• Tuesday, October 15th 2013 - 14:28 UTC

  St Vincent and Grenadines reiterates relations and political support for Taiwan

  

  St. Vincent and the Grenadines has reiterated its support for Taiwan to be recognized by various international agencies saying the Asian country has done much to improve the socio-economic well being of people in developing countries.

• Tuesday, October 15th 2013 - 12:41 UTC

  “Chinese Taipei” represented at ICAO for the first time in four decades

  

  Taiwan was represented at an International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Assembly for the first time in over four decades when a Taiwanese delegation was present at the opening session of this year's meeting in Montreal last month.

• Tuesday, October 15th 2013 - 08:11 UTC

  Release of Margaret Thatcher personal papers of 1983

  

  Former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's 1983 papers were opened at the Churchill College Archives Centre (Cambridge) and online on the website of the Margaret Thatcher Foundation in October 2013.

• Tuesday, October 15th 2013 - 07:59 UTC

  Confidence China is coming off its worst annual economic performance

  

  China, a major driver of the global economy, is coming off its worst annual economic performance since 1999 after GDP managed an expansion of just 7.7% last year. Authorities, however, say weaker growth is in line with their desire to shift the country's economic growth model toward what they see as slower and more sustainable private-led demand rather than previously popular credit-fuelled state-driven investment projects.