Politics

• Thursday, September 22nd 2016 - 17:00 UTC

  St Helena airport “too dangerous to use” opens prospect of £285m compensation claim

  

  Britain faces the prospect of compensation claims over a disastrous overseas aid project to build an airport on the remote island of St Helena, according to reports in the UK media. The £285million flop became a symbol of Britain’s aid waste this year after experts warned it might never open because of severe problems with wind conditions on the British Overseas Territory in the South Atlantic Ocean.

• Thursday, September 22nd 2016 - 15:56 UTC

  US National Guard sent to Charlotte to quell violent rioting after shooting of black man

  

  Violence flared in the southern US city of Charlotte, North Carolina, in a second night of unrest ignited by the fatal police shooting of a black man. Charlotte officials appealed for calm on Thursday, hours after violent riots stemming from a controversial police shooting of a black man injured several police officers and civilians and resulted in 44 arrests.

• Thursday, September 22nd 2016 - 15:40 UTC

  Rousseff back on the political trail in defence of Lula da Silva

  

  Former President Dilma Rousseff called the prosecution of her predecessor on corruption charges another attack on Brazil's democracy, speaking just weeks after the Senate removed her from office in an impeachment trial.

• Thursday, September 22nd 2016 - 15:38 UTC

  Ex finance minister of Lula and Rousseff arrested in connection to Petrobras corruption

  

  Brazilian police on Thursday arrested Guido Mantega, a former finance minister under presidents Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff, as part of the investigation into the vast Petrobras corruption scheme, media reported.However Brazilian Judge Sergio Moro later in the day revoked the temporary detention order citing Mantega's cooperation with a search of his home and his wife's surgery in a Sao Paulo hospital.

• Thursday, September 22nd 2016 - 10:34 UTC

  Oxford leads world university rankings; 15 out of 20 top list are from US

  

  Oxford University has come top of The Times Higher Education world university rankings - a first for a UK university. Oxford knocks California Institute of Technology, the top performer for the past five years, into second place. But there are warnings the vote to leave the European Union could destabilize UK higher education and hinder work with academics abroad.

• Thursday, September 22nd 2016 - 10:24 UTC

  Latin American Jewish congress express ''enthusiastic support” for president Macri

  

  The Latin-American Jewish Congress expressed its most “enthusiast support” to Argentine president Mauricio Macri and his administration but also pointed out that in his Tuesday speech before the UN General Assembly there was no specific request for Iran to collaborate with the investigation of the 1994 terrorist attack against AMIA in Buenos Aires.

• Thursday, September 22nd 2016 - 07:15 UTC

  Macri downplays chat with May, “it was no formal meeting”, just “a nice gesture from the prime minister”

  

  Argentine president Mauricio Macri on Wednesday downplayed the chat with PM Theresa May on Tuesday at the UN banquet in New York saying it was “no formal or official meeting”, but nevertheless underlined the “good predisposition” for dialogue which Argentina had lost during the last twelve years and anticipated that the Falklands/Malvinas Islands question “will demand many years”.

• Thursday, September 22nd 2016 - 06:51 UTC

  Argentina “is not surrendering Malvinas”; Macri/May greeting was “a brief casual encounter”

  

  Foreign minister Susana Malcorra said that Argentina is “not surrendering the Malvinas Islands” and explained that Tuesday's exchange between president Mauricio Macri and Prime minister Theresa May in New York, in the framework of the UN annual assembly was “a brief casual encounter”.

• Thursday, September 22nd 2016 - 06:27 UTC

  Argentine congress will be part of the Argentina/UK joint statement discussions

  

  The chair of Argentina's Lower House Foreign Affairs Committee Elisa Carrió has supported president Mauricio Macri's “nonnegotiable” stance on the Falklands/Malvinas sovereignty dispute and attributed the Argentina/UK joint statement controversy to “minor questions of communication”, nevertheless she summoned deputy foreign minister Carlos Foradori to Congress next Wednesday.

• Wednesday, September 21st 2016 - 09:42 UTC

  Lula must stand trial on Petrobras probe corruption charges

  

  The Brazilian judge overseeing the investigation of a US$2 billion corruption scheme centered on state oil company Petrobras ruled Tuesday that former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva must stand trial on charges arising from the probe.