Politics

• Thursday, September 29th 2016 - 20:08 UTC

  London dismisses bilateral dialogue over Gibraltar; “UK's position on sovereignty remains unchanged”

  

  Britain has dismissed a formal Spanish request for bilateral dialogue over Gibraltar, the Gibraltar Chronicle has published. A letter from acting Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel García-Margallo was handed to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office by a senior official from the Spanish embassy in London on September 20.

• Thursday, September 29th 2016 - 19:40 UTC

  A Falklands' annual event: Chilean Independence Day celebrations

  

  Chilean Independence Day celebrations were again held in the Falkland Islands this year, with the main event being hosted at Government House in Stanley, demonstrating the strong relationship that has formed between Chile and the Falklands in recent decades.

• Thursday, September 29th 2016 - 18:14 UTC

  Overriding Saudi Arabia bill veto, “a mistake and dangerous precedent”, warns Obama

  

  President Obama has said Congress made a “mistake” by overriding his veto and pushing through a bill that allows legal action against Saudi Arabia over the 9/11 attacks. He added that the bill would set a “dangerous precedent” for individuals around the world to sue the US government. Wednesday's vote was the first time Obama's veto power was overruled.

• Thursday, September 29th 2016 - 12:33 UTC

  Catalonia challenges Madrid and will hold an independence referendum next year

  

  Catalonia is to hold a referendum on independence in a year’s time in a move that will infuriate Madrid but which should also return power to the pro-indy campaign in the regional assembly. President Carles Puigdemont told the Catalan Parliament yesterday: “We will look for an agreement (with central government) until the very end, we will at every moment work with the will to hold a referendum in agreement with the state.

• Thursday, September 29th 2016 - 12:18 UTC

  Labour fully backs Gibraltar's self determination, says shadow foreign secretary

  

  Britain's Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry has said the Labour Party fully backs the Self Determination of the People of Gibraltar, and the Rock must continue to enjoy the benefits from its membership of the EU.

• Thursday, September 29th 2016 - 11:23 UTC

  Brazil central bank sees annual inflation targets within arm's reach

  

  Brazil's central bank expects annual inflation to ease below the government's 4.5% target in 2017 after years of hovering well above that goal, leaving the door open for cutting some of the world's highest interest rates as early as October. The bank also held its estimate for an economic contraction of 3.1% in 2016, but it expects the economy to grow 1.3% in 2017.

• Thursday, September 29th 2016 - 10:35 UTC

  One in three Argentines, 8.8 million live in poverty and 1.7 million are indigent

  

  Nearly one-third of Argentina’s population lives in poverty, the government said on Wednesday in the first official poverty data published in three years, underscoring the difficulty of reaching President Mauricio Macri’s stated “zero poverty” goal. The ranks of the poor surveyed in Argentina totaled 8.8 million people, or 32.2% of the population in 31 urban areas surveyed.

• Thursday, September 29th 2016 - 10:31 UTC

  Falklands' sovereignty talks, end objective of non binding joint statement, Argentine congress is told

  

  The 13th September joint statement between Argentina and the UK is a new bilateral convergence of common interests and the possibility, in the framework of a new dialogue and cooperation, of sovereignty discussions resumption on the Malvinas, South Georgia, South Sandwich islands and adjoining maritime spaces question, Argentine Deputy foreign minister Carlos Foradori told the Lower House Foreign Affairs committee during a summons on Wednesday.

• Thursday, September 29th 2016 - 09:07 UTC

  Sunday deadline for Falklands' competition open to university students

  

  This Sunday, October 2nd, ends the deadline to participate in the regional competition sponsored by the Falkland Islands government and the UK embassies in Uruguay, Brazil and Chile addressing the issue, “Why would I like to meet my neighbors from the Falkland Islands?” The competition is open to university students from the three countries and the prize is a weeklong trip to the Falkland Islands with all expenses paid.

• Wednesday, September 28th 2016 - 12:26 UTC

  Iran-Saudi Arabia can't agree on limiting oil supply: “maybe in November”

  

  Iran rejected on Tuesday an offer from Saudi Arabia to limit its oil output in exchange for Riyadh cutting supply, dashing market hopes the two major OPEC producers would find a compromise this week to help ease a global glut of crude.