International

• Monday, September 16th 2013 - 01:26 UTC

  Colombia/Nicaragua maritime dispute reignites, despite International Court ruling

  

  President Juan Manuel Santos presented before Colombia’s constitutional court a demand against the Pact of Bogotá arguing that a recent ruling from the International Court of Justice on a maritime dispute with Nicaragua does not comply with the Colombian constitution.

• Sunday, September 15th 2013 - 20:18 UTC

  Summers pulls out of the race to succeed Bernanke at the Federal Reserve

  

  Lawrence “Larry” Summers, the former Treasury Secretary who served Presidents Clinton and Obama, called President Barack Obama on Sunday to say he is pulling out of the race to succeed Ben Bernanke as chairman of the Federal Reserve.

• Sunday, September 15th 2013 - 20:16 UTC

  Pope’s meets with the father of liberation theology; Vatican media praises the Peruvian priest

  

  Pope Francis' September 11 meeting with Dominican Father Gustavo Gutierrez was an informal one, held in the in the pope's residence, the Domus Sanctae Marthae, and not listed on his official schedule., reports the Catholic News Service. However the news that Pope Francis had received the 85-year old Peruvian priest, who is widely considered the father of liberation theology, has excited interest far beyond the Vatican's walls.

• Sunday, September 15th 2013 - 19:18 UTC

  RFA Wave Knight in major seizure of drugs in the Caribbean

  

  Royal Fleet Auxiliary support ship Wave Knight has helped seize an estimated £6.5 million worth of drugs from traffickers in the Caribbean. In a multi-agency operation involving UK and US assets, the fishing vessel Miss Tiffany was detected and one of Wave Knight’s boats was launched to investigate.

• Sunday, September 15th 2013 - 19:15 UTC

  Latam’s cash transfer programs have proven more effective in combating poverty

  

  Latin America’s cash transfer programs are a more effective weapon against poverty and social inequality than economic growth alone, according to a study by two local economists.

• Sunday, September 15th 2013 - 18:37 UTC

  OAS chief and Pope Francis talk drugs, Chile’s coup and Latam’s coming challenges

  

  The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, was received in a private audience by Pope Francis in Vatican City and by the President of Italy, Giorgio Napolitano, in the framework of a visit to Rome at the invitation of the Italianaeuropei to give a lecture during the commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the military coup in Chile.

• Sunday, September 15th 2013 - 18:11 UTC

  Merkel coalition leads a week ahead of national elections in Germany

  

  The opposition Social Democrats has gained slightly in the last pre-election opinion poll by German public broadcaster ARD. Their candidate, Peer Steinbrück has raised some eyebrows by raising one of his own digits in a weekly newspaper supplement.

• Sunday, September 15th 2013 - 18:10 UTC

  China in ‘crucial’ restructuring stage, ‘much needed to sustain economic growth’

  

  China's economy is going through a “crucial” stage of restructuring, says the country's Premier, Li Keqiang. Speaking at the World Economic Forum in the Chinese port city of Dalian, Mr Li pledged to improve relations with foreign firms.

• Sunday, September 15th 2013 - 18:03 UTC

  Spain’s public debt hits a record high in June equal to 92.2% of GDP

  

  Spain's public debt reached a record high in June, the country's central bank said. The figure has risen to 942.8bn Euros, equal to 92.2% of the country's entire economic output, the bank said. This is nearly 15% higher than the same period last year and above the Spanish government's target limit of 91.4%, despite severe public spending cuts.

• Sunday, September 15th 2013 - 18:01 UTC

  Twitter has decided to go public; private investors estimates: over 10bn dollars

  

  Twitter has decided to go public. The company aptly announced on its short messaging service Friday afternoon that it has filed documents for an initial public offering of stock. San Francisco based Twitter Inc. posted on its official Twitter account that it has “confidentially submitted an S-1 to the SEC for a planned IPO.”