International

• Thursday, June 6th 2013 - 23:12 UTC

  Dragui forecasts Euro-area return to growth by end of 2013

  

  European Central Bank President Mario Draghi said on Thursday that the Euro-area economy will return to growth by the end of the year, handing policy makers a reason to hold back fresh stimulus. Draghi spoke after the ECB Governing Council in Frankfurt left its main refinancing rate at 0.5% after reducing it by a quarter points last month.

• Thursday, June 6th 2013 - 06:38 UTC

  OAS assembly adopts convention against racism and all forms of intolerance

  

  The General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS), meeting in Guatemala adopted the Inter-American Convention against Racism, Racial Discrimination, and Related Forms of Intolerance and the Inter-American Convention against All Forms of Discrimination and Intolerance and opened them for signature.

• Thursday, June 6th 2013 - 06:33 UTC

  Throwing away food is like stealing from the poor, Francis tells followers

  

  Francis has denounced what he called a “culture of waste” in an increasingly consumerist world and said throwing away good food was like stealing from poor people.

• Wednesday, June 5th 2013 - 21:08 UTC

  Russia temporary bans beef and poultry imports from three Brazil Marfrig plants

  

  The Russian veterinary and phytosanitary service, Rosselkhoznadzor, temporarily suspended imports from two Brazilian beef slaughterhouses and one poultry processing facility on May 17, citing detection of listeria in shipments, according to processors involved.

• Wednesday, June 5th 2013 - 18:50 UTC

  Airline profits 20% higher than expected this year, anticipates IATA

  

  Airline profits will be 20% higher than expected this year despite razor-thin margins, according to the industry's main representative body. The International Air Transport Association (IATA) said increased demand was helping pack planes to record levels.

• Wednesday, June 5th 2013 - 08:29 UTC

  Prosecutor Nisman ready to quit if accused Iranian officials surrender to face trial

  

  Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman responsible for the investigation into the 1994 bombing of a Jewish institution in Buenos Aires that killed 85 people and which points as culprits to several Iranian officials said he will step down if those Iranians named in the report “surrender to face trial”.

• Wednesday, June 5th 2013 - 08:19 UTC

  Argentina first of 66 countries to sign UN Arms Trade Treaty; US on hold

  

  Representatives of sixty six countries lined up at U.N. headquarters in New York to sign the first international treaty to regulate the 85 billion dollars global conventional arms trade, a landmark event. However doubts exist about whether the treaty will work.

• Wednesday, June 5th 2013 - 07:52 UTC

  Record death of whales and calves in Patagonia; scientists investigating

  

  Southern Right Whales are dying off at a record rate in Argentina's Patagonia region, a conservation group warned.

• Wednesday, June 5th 2013 - 07:40 UTC

  Delta CEO appointed new IATTA chairman; top of the agenda environment

  

  The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced that Richard H. Anderson, CEO of Delta Air Lines, has assumed his duties as Chairman of the IATA Board of Governors.

• Wednesday, June 5th 2013 - 07:35 UTC

  A new interaction emerging between US and the region, says panel of experts

  

  The Organization of American States (OAS) hosted its 51st Policy Roundtable on the theme “Power Shifts in Latin America: Current Trends” at the headquarters of the organization in Washington, DC. Most experts coincided in a new interaction between the US and the region despite ideology still plays a role, but overall the old elites are being eclipse.