International

• Saturday, July 6th 2013 - 06:51 UTC

  Success of South Georgia’s rat eradication campaign makes BBC news

  

  The world's largest rat eradication campaign has now laid toxic bait on a further 580 sq km of South Georgia, reaching its target. These poisonous pellets have now been spread on 70% of the rat-infested island, according to a BBC report from Melissa Hogenboom.

• Friday, July 5th 2013 - 22:57 UTC

  John Paul II and John XXIII will be made saints, announced the Vatican

  

  The late Pope John Paul II will be made a saint, the Vatican said on Friday, announcing that Pope Francis had approved a second miracle attributed to the Polish pontiff, who led the Roman Catholic Church from 1978 to 2005.

• Friday, July 5th 2013 - 22:52 UTC

  Spain calls for calm over Bolivian plane incident, but anticipates ‘no apologies’

  

  Spain called for calm on Friday in a diplomatic row ignited when Bolivian President Evo Morales's plane was diverted because of suspicions that fugitive US intelligence ‘leaker’ Edward Snowden was aboard. However he anticipated there would be no apologies from Spain as South American countries are demanding.

• Friday, July 5th 2013 - 07:11 UTC

  Latam leaders in Bolivia support President Morales and blast European countries

  

  Latin American leaders gathered in Bolivia on Thursday to back President Evo Morales, fuming after some European nations temporarily refused his plane access to their airspace amid suspicions US fugitive Edward Snowden was aboard.

• Friday, July 5th 2013 - 07:07 UTC

  Ecuador asks UK to help investigate spying at its embassy in London

  

  Ecuador has asked the UK to help an investigation over alleged spying at its embassy in London where Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is living. Ecuador named a British company it claimed planted a listening device in their ambassador's office but this was denied.

• Friday, July 5th 2013 - 03:40 UTC

  Argentina contributed to Israel nuclear bomb supplying ‘yellowcake” says Foreign Policy

  

  Argentina may have sold Israel material necessary for making a nuclear bomb in the 1960s, Foreign Policy reported on Monday, citing newly declassified US archive documents. Israel has never clearly admitted to having a nuclear weapons program in the country, although it is has been estimated that the Jewish State has dozens of nuclear warheads.

• Friday, July 5th 2013 - 03:26 UTC

  Gibraltar ruling party wins by-election; vote of confidence for CM Picardo

  

  By Jim Watt - Gibraltar’s ruling GSLP candidate Albert Isola had a comfortable win in Thursday’s by-election. The election was called due to the death of the popular MP Charles Bruzon.

• Friday, July 5th 2013 - 00:50 UTC

  FIFA wants 2030 World Cup centenary jointly staged by Uruguay and Argentina

  

  FIFA wants the centenary World Cup in 2030 to be jointly staged by Uruguay and Argentina, who met in the final of the inaugural tournament, Argentine FA (AFA) president Julio Grondona said on Thursday.

• Friday, July 5th 2013 - 00:30 UTC

  Buenos Aires will host the 3rd Summer Youth Olympic Games in 2018

  

  The City of Buenos Aires will be hosting the 3rd Summer Youth Olympic Games in 2018, International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Jacques Rogge announced following a vote by the IOC members at an Extraordinary IOC Session in Lausanne.

• Wednesday, July 3rd 2013 - 11:54 UTC

  Interview with Dick Sawle, Falklands MLA

  

  The holding of a self-determination referendum in the Falklands Islands in March this year attracted media attention all over the world. Once more, British democratic culture and the concept of self-determination clashed with government by decree and the use of force to impose a certain political system. Some weeks later, with the Islands out of the limelight but while tensions remain, Help Catalonia talked to Hon. Dick Sawle, one of the members of the local Legislative Assembly.