International

Friday, September 13th 2013 - 20:50 UTC
Argentina formally requests US Supreme Court to review Appeals court favoring holdout hedge funds

Argentina’s legal representation in Washington DC yesterday sent a petition for a writ of certiorari to the United States’ Supreme Court, requesting Justices to accept its appeal against the Second Circuit Court of Appeal’s ruling in favour of holdout hedge funds, which are demanding full repayment for bonds left unpaid by Argentina’s record-breaking 2002 default.
Friday, September 13th 2013 - 20:40 UTC
Canada, Israel, Japan with the most educated status in the world, says OECD

With spiking tuition costs, insurmountable loan balances, and the unemployment rate for recent college graduates at double digit it’s clear that a university education doesn’t receive the best of praise, particularly in developed countries.
Friday, September 13th 2013 - 20:36 UTC
Falklands: despite MPs criticisms, “UK government wants full bilateral relationship with Argentina”

A British Conservative Member of Parliament Henry Smith labeled Argentine president Cristina Fernandez as ‘disgraceful’ for how she has treated the people of the Falkland Islands and also claimed she stopped an Argentine prosecutor from testifying before the US congress on the Buenos Aires 1994 bombing of an Israelite mutual association in order to protect a growing alliance with Iran.
Friday, September 13th 2013 - 02:26 UTC
Dow Jones industrial average revamped: Alcoa, BofA out, Nike, Visa, Goldman Sachs

The Dow Jones industrial average, one of the world's best known measures of stock market performance, is having a revamp. Alcoa, Bank of America and Hewlett-Packard are being dropped from the index of the top 30 US companies. From 23 September they will be replaced by Goldman Sachs, Nike and Visa.
Friday, September 13th 2013 - 02:16 UTC
Argentina confirms that the Malvinas question has become a Latinamerican strategy issue

Javier Figueroa head of the Malvinas Desk at the Argentine Foreign ministry said that it is strategic to make the “Malvinas question” a Latinamerican issue. Figueroa made the statement during a meeting of Central America and Caribbean Malvinas Solidarity groups which opened Thursday in Havana.
Friday, September 13th 2013 - 01:20 UTC
Spain now disputes Portugal’s Savage Islands EEZ before the UN

Spain has quietly lodged an official request with the United Nations to have Portugal’s southern-most territory, the Savage Islands, declared as rocks and not as islands, according to a report from the Gibraltar Chronicle.
Friday, September 13th 2013 - 00:58 UTC
Gibraltar launches three gold commemorative coins to celebrate coronation

The Government of Gibraltar has launched three “extremely limited edition” Gibraltar gold commemorative coins to celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.
Friday, September 13th 2013 - 00:52 UTC
Uruguay and UK sign agreement for Chevening-ANII scholarships

The British Ambassador in Montevideo, Ben Lyster-Binns, and the President of Uruguay’s National Research and Innovation Agency (ANII) Omar Macadar, signed this week an agreement to create the Chevening-ANII scholarships.
Friday, September 13th 2013 - 00:39 UTC
Celibacy ‘is not Church dogma’ and ‘can be discussed’, says Vatican’s number two

The Vatican’s new secretary of state has surprised many in the Catholic Church, after saying in an interview with a Venezuelan newspaper that the issue of priests remaining celibate is up for discussion.
Thursday, September 12th 2013 - 05:14 UTC
Mega-regional accords could lead “to redefinition of world trade rules by 2020”

One of the main features emerging with the current international economic situation is mega-regional negotiations linking the main world production networks: Europe, North America and Asia and sometimes skirting WTO, according to the latest report on the Latinamerican and Caribbean economy from Eclac (UN Economic commission for Latam and the Caribbean).