International

• Tuesday, September 20th 2011 - 01:12 UTC

  US diplomatic measures to make Iceland desist of its whaling activities

  

  US President Barack Obama announced diplomatic measures to be taken by the United States against Iceland in condemnation of its whaling activities.

• Monday, September 19th 2011 - 21:30 UTC

  UNESCO drafts action plan to improve journalists’ safety and punish instigators

  

  Participants at a UN forum that met in Paris have drafted an action plan to improve the safety of journalists and ensure that crimes committed against them do not go unpunished.

• Monday, September 19th 2011 - 21:20 UTC

  EU and US debt crises contagion threatens developing world investor confidence

  

  The head of the World Bank on Monday said a drop in investor confidence was already feeding through to developing nations from a growing debt crisis in advanced economies and urged “cooperative action.”

• Monday, September 19th 2011 - 21:17 UTC

  Times Atlas triggers controversy on the rate of Greenland’s ice loss

  

  The Times Atlas of the World exaggerated the rate of Greenland's ice loss in its thirteenth edition last week, scientists said on Monday.

• Monday, September 19th 2011 - 16:41 UTC

  Brazil reiterates it will defend recognition of a Palestinian state at the UN

  

  Brazil will ‘defend’ the recognition of a Palestinian state during the coming United Nations General Assembly discussions, said President Dilma Rousseff’s international affairs advisor Marco Aurelio García.

• Monday, September 19th 2011 - 16:31 UTC

  IMF/EU/ECB tell Greece to shrink public sector, otherwise expect no check

  

  International lenders told Greece it must shrink its public sector and improve tax collection to avoid default within weeks as investors spooked by political setbacks in Europe dumped risky Euro zone assets.

• Monday, September 19th 2011 - 06:52 UTC

  Brazilian president first woman to open round of UN General Assembly speeches

  

  Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff will become on Wednesday the first woman ever to open the round of speeches marking the beginning of the United Nations General Assembly, according to Brazilian sources.

• Monday, September 19th 2011 - 06:48 UTC

  UK to ensure Overseas Territories’ constitutional arrangements are “effectively working”

  

  As a decade of British Overseas Territories’ constitutional revision is coming to a close the UK policy strategy is to ensure that constitutional arrangements are effectively working to be best interests of OT and the UK, announced Foreign Secretary William Hague this past week before the House of Commons.

• Monday, September 19th 2011 - 06:41 UTC

  CFK will demand Falklands/Malvinas sovereignty negotiations before UN assembly

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner will be addressing the United Nations General Assembly next Wednesday when she is expected to renew sovereignty claims on the Falklands/Malvinas Islands and make strong statements regarding the dispute with Iran.

• Monday, September 19th 2011 - 06:37 UTC

  Strauss-Kahn resigns to politics; gives account of his “moral failing”

  

  Dominique Strauss-Kahn admitted on Sunday his sexual encounter with a New York hotel maid constituted a “moral failing” toward his wife, his children and the French people, in his first public comments since an attempted-rape case led him to resign as International Monetary Fund chief and effectively annihilated his chances of becoming France's president next year.