International

• Saturday, October 19th 2013 - 15:36 UTC

  Italy tax collectors formally notified Maradona of his debt: 39 million Euro

  

  Italy’s tax collection agency says it has formally notified Diego Maradona that it will begin procedures to freeze his assets in Italy to pay off his tax debt of 39 million Euros or 53 million dollars.

• Thursday, October 17th 2013 - 20:12 UTC

  Russia making inroads as defence and technology supplier to Brazil

  

  Brazil is pushing ahead with a planned one billion dollars purchase of anti-aircraft missile batteries from Russia in a deal that will cement a strategic defence partnership between the two BRICS nations, the Brazilian Defence Ministry said.

• Thursday, October 17th 2013 - 19:49 UTC

  UK sets out its Arctic policy with “legitimate interests in the region” and priorities

  

  The United Kingdom government set out its approach and policy on the Arctic in a paper released on Thursday and titled: Arctic Policy Framework - Adapting To Change: UK policy towards the Arctic.

• Wednesday, October 16th 2013 - 08:29 UTC

  Spain will not seek support on Gibraltar from the coming Ibero-American summit

  

  Spain will not seek support from the Ibero-American summit to call on the UK to resume the bilateral dialogue on Gibraltar’s sovereignty as Argentina has done traditionally with the Falklands/Malvinas issue, according to Spanish diplomatic sources reported in the Madrid media.

• 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.