International

• Monday, July 8th 2013 - 23:57 UTC

  FAO and WHO agree on new Alimentarius Codex with stricter standards for healthier diets

  

  The UN food standards body Codex Alimentarius has agreed on new standards to protect the health of consumers worldwide. These include standards on fruit, vegetables, fish and fishery products and animal feed.

• Monday, July 8th 2013 - 06:29 UTC

  Argentine training frigate ARA Libertad at last moment suspends annual trip

  

  Argentina’s flagship the tall mast frigate ARA Libertad which last year was retained in Ghana for 77 days, unexpectedly suspended until 2014 the beginning of its annual instruction trip which was scheduled to leave Buenos Aires this weekend.

• Monday, July 8th 2013 - 06:16 UTC

  Argentina blocks prosecutor from informing US congress on Iran ‘infiltration’

  

  Argentina’s Prosecutor General Alejandra Gils Carbo has prevented AMIA case Special Prosecutor Alberto Nisman from attending the US Congress. Nisman was expected to expose the 500-page indictment accusing Iran of allegedly “infiltrating” Latin America to establish “intelligence networks”.

• Saturday, July 6th 2013 - 12:20 UTC

  Gibraltar calls on London to complain about Spanish 'buzzing' jets

  

  Britain and Spain faced another round of diplomatic tension on Wednesday night after four Spanish jets “buzzed” over the BOT Gibraltar, causing delay to a commercial flight. Reports collected by the Gibraltar Chronicle indicate eyewitnesses said the Matador jets flew in from behind Los Barrios and very close to the north end of the Rock.

• Saturday, July 6th 2013 - 07:09 UTC

  Piscator incident: Spain says fishing vessel was operating eight miles outside Argentina’s EEZ

  

  The Spanish government believes an “error of appreciation” was committed in the incident involving the Galician trawler “Piscator” captured this week in the South Atlantic allegedly operating in Argentine waters. Spain is hopeful that the situation will be resolved in “coming hours”.

• 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.