International

• Monday, October 22nd 2012 - 19:45 UTC

  A fifth of Spaniards living below the poverty shows latest stats

  

  Every fifth resident lives in poverty in Spain, new figures showed on Monday.
  The national statistics institute INE said 21.1% of the 47-million population lives below the poverty line, meaning they live on less than 7,355 Euros (9,610 dollars) annually.

• Monday, October 22nd 2012 - 19:20 UTC

  UN Security Council says ARA Libertad incident does not endanger world peace

  

  Argentine Foreign minister Hector Timerman began Monday morning his round of contacts in New York to lobby for the release of the Navy’s training frigate retained in Ghana but suffered a first setback when he met with the president of the UN Security Council, Ambassador Gert Rosenthal.

• Monday, October 22nd 2012 - 18:46 UTC

  WTO upholds ruling favouring the US in steel products dispute with China

  

  The World Trade Organisation (WTO) has upheld its decision that China's tariffs on imports of certain US steel products were illegal. Beijing had imposed duties on a particular kind of US steel, alleging that its makers were being given subsidies by the US government.

• Monday, October 22nd 2012 - 18:40 UTC

  Most of ARA Libertad crew should be arriving at Buenos Aires late Wednesday

  

  Argentina confirmed on Monday that most of the crew from the training frigate ARA Libertad retained in Ghana is being evacuated and should arrive in Buenos Aires Wednesday night, in a chartered commercial aircraft. Only a small group of officers and 44 crew members will remain on the impounded vessel for maintenance work.

• Monday, October 22nd 2012 - 04:15 UTC

  Veteran Tories call PM Cameron’s government ‘incompetent and elitist”

  

  British Prime Minister David Cameron is under pressure to reassert his authority over a Conservative Party reeling after a week which saw the resignation of a senior minister and claims of incompetence and elitism at the heart of his government.

• Monday, October 22nd 2012 - 03:43 UTC

  BAS contractors’ team shoot horror movie ‘South of Sanity” in Antarctica

  

  A fictional feature film has been shot in Antarctica for the first time. Scottish climbing instructor and documentary-maker Kirk Watson filmed South of Sanity while working for British Antarctic Survey (BAS).

• Monday, October 22nd 2012 - 03:16 UTC

  UK launches environmental and climate fund for Overseas Territories

  

  The UK has launched a new Overseas Territories Environment and Climate Fund, which consolidates funds from the Foreign Office, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, and Department for International Development, dedicated to environmental and conservation projects in those territories.

• Monday, October 22nd 2012 - 03:11 UTC

  Spain wants to ban photos and filming of security forces ‘on exercise of their functions’

  

  The Spanish government challenged by growing protests and street demonstrations and a possible national strike next month is considering a ban on photographing, filming or reproducing images of police and state security forces that are on duty, according to officials.

• Monday, October 22nd 2012 - 03:04 UTC

  Landslides for Rajoy in Galicia but Basques raise the question of ‘independence’

  

  Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy conservative Popular Party on Sunday retained power in his home region of Galicia despite recession and biting austerity measures, official results showed.

• Sunday, October 21st 2012 - 06:19 UTC

  Massive protest in central London against public spending cuts and higher taxes

  

  Thousands of British protesters marched through central London on Saturday against public spending cuts and tax rises enacted by a government fighting accusations it is run by an upper-class elite that ignores the plight of recession-hit voters.