International

• Thursday, October 18th 2012 - 18:32 UTC

  Gibraltar admitted to UEFA junior football and Futsal competitions

  

  Gibraltar Football Association President Gareth Latin announced that Gibraltar has been invited to participate in UEFA Under 17, Under 19 and Futsal competitions, commencing in September 2013, despite Spain’s “outright objection”.

• Thursday, October 18th 2012 - 18:22 UTC

  Newsweek's final print edition 31 December and then moves to all-digital format

  

  Newsweek, the venerable US weekly magazine covering current events, will publish its final print edition on Dec. 31 and move to an all-digital format early next year, two top executives said.

• Thursday, October 18th 2012 - 16:07 UTC

  Paymaster Germany suggests EU Executive veto power over national budgets

  

  German Chancellor Angela Merkel demanded stronger central powers for the European Union's executive to veto national budgets that breach EU rules, risking a clash with close ally France at a summit of the bloc's leaders.

• Thursday, October 18th 2012 - 16:04 UTC

  Protector catches stunning sonar imagery and bathymetric survey off St Helena

  

  The Royal Navy Ice patrol HMS Protector heading for another Antarctic season previous visit to South Africa and Falkland Islands has produced stunning sonar imagery of the wreck of a wartime RFA tanker to help salvage experts study the state of it.

• Thursday, October 18th 2012 - 10:41 UTC

  Brazil-FAO sign agreement for cotton expertise transfer to small farmers in Africa

  

  A 20 million dollars agreement signed Wednesday by the United Nations and Brazil will seek to transfer the expertise of the South American country to support cotton farmers in developing economies.

• Thursday, October 18th 2012 - 07:15 UTC

  Argentina takes Falklands sovereignty claim complaint to the Security Council

  

  The Argentine Foreign ministry said in an official release on Wednesday that the UN Security Council had received, and incorporated to its agenda, a formal complaint on the UK latest military exercises in the Falkland Islands.

• Thursday, October 18th 2012 - 01:37 UTC

  Australian beef sales to Japan remain weak: down 6% over last year

  

  Australia shipped 22,648 tonnes swt of beef to Japan during September, the lowest monthly volumes since December 2003 (with the exception of January).

• Thursday, October 18th 2012 - 01:32 UTC

  US consumers increasingly demanding antibiotic-free meat and poultry

  

  Pushing its ‘Meat Without Drugs’ campaign, the US Consumers Union recently delivered more than 500,000 signatures to Trader Joe’s in Manhattan, New York.

• Thursday, October 18th 2012 - 00:57 UTC

  Hedge funds targeting Argentina miss the target: BIS deposits free from embargoes

  

  Switzerland’s government rejected a law suit filed by US hedge funds asking to set an embargo on Argentina's assets deposited in Switzerland based Bank for International Settlements as they claim the payment of a 1 billion dollars debt.

• Thursday, October 18th 2012 - 00:46 UTC

  Which of three EU delegates will actually receive the Nobel Peace Prize?

  

  Almost a week after winning the Nobel Peace Prize, the European Union has finally decided who will collect the award. Rather than one person making the trip to Norway on Dec. 10, the EU has decided it will send three people: one to represent each of its main institutions: the European Commission, the European Council and the European Parliament.