International

• Thursday, September 13th 2012 - 06:12 UTC

  Ecuador and UK to retake Assange case during the coming UN General Assembly

  

  Ecuador and UK will resume talks on Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks, during the coming session period of the UN General Assembly, said Ecuadorean Vice-president Lenin Moreno who anticipated a solution in accordance with “sovereignty and the law”.

• Thursday, September 13th 2012 - 06:10 UTC

  Pro-Europe parties winning in tight Dutch election

  

  Exit polls in the latest Dutch elections show Prime Minister Mark Rutte's ruling Liberal party leading by one seat. They also predict a massive loss of seats for the far-right PVV party. An exit poll by the Dutch broadcaster NOS/RTL showed the two pro-European parties, Liberal and Labour, had 41 and 40 seats respectively.

• Thursday, September 13th 2012 - 01:53 UTC

  Chile can’t forget Pinochet’s coup: a Carabinero killed, hundreds of protestors injured and arrested

  

  A Carabinero was shot dead, scores of people were injured and 255 others arrested in violent protests marking the 39th anniversary of the military coup that toppled Chilean elected Socialist president Salvador Allende in 1973, reported the Ministry of Interior on Wednesday.

• Thursday, September 13th 2012 - 01:49 UTC

  Arctic conquest: Russia building the world’s biggest nuclear powered icebreaker

  

  Russia's plans to build the world's biggest nuclear-powered icebreaker could attract more trade to the country, says a leading UK analyst. The new ship is meant to be more efficient at breaking ice and able to navigate in deep Arctic waters as well as shallow Siberian rivers.

• Wednesday, September 12th 2012 - 14:44 UTC

  Whistleblower in tax-fraud case against UBS receives 104 million dollars rewards from US

  

  The whistleblower in a breakthrough tax fraud case against Swiss bank UBS AG has won a record-setting 104 million dollars reward from the US Internal Revenue Service, a handsome payout that could entice more informants to come forward.

• Wednesday, September 12th 2012 - 14:39 UTC

  German high court says yes to Euro bail-out plan but on tough conditions

  

  Germany's Constitutional Court gave a green light for the country to ratify the Euro zone's new bailout fund and budget pact, but insisted the German parliament have veto powers over any future increases in the size of the fund.

• Wednesday, September 12th 2012 - 02:01 UTC

  Wind could meet world power demand by 2013, say Stanford researchers

  

  By Andrew Myers (*) Adapting a sophisticated climate model, researchers show that there is plenty of wind available to supply half to several times the world's total energy needs within the next two decades.

• Wednesday, September 12th 2012 - 01:58 UTC

  Plans to preserve the legacy of the Royal Navy’s Invincible class aircraft carriers

  

  Plans to preserve the legacy of the Royal Navy's Invincible Class aircraft carriers have been outlined. HMS Invincible, HMS Illustrious and HMS Ark Royal came into service in the early 1980s and have spent the last thirty years protecting the UK's interests across the world.

• Wednesday, September 12th 2012 - 01:54 UTC

  EU bites the hand that feeds it: Russia’s Gazprom will bite back

  

  Gazprom has Europe's natural gas market in a stranglehold and Europe is attempting to fight back, first with a raid last year on the Russian giant's offices and then with a probe launched earlier this week against its allegedly illicit efforts to control the EU natural gas supplies.

• Wednesday, September 12th 2012 - 01:41 UTC

  Euro-Rescue-Day: German constitutional court rules on support for the EU currency

  

  Germany's Constitutional Court rejected on Tuesday an attempt to further delay a ruling on the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) and fiscal compact, which had previously been pushed back by months while the judges reviewed whether the German parliament is permitted under the constitution to ratify the treaties.