Politics

• Monday, October 12th 2015 - 06:19 UTC

  “Under no condition, I might resign” says Brazil's Lower House speaker

  

  The speaker of Brazil's lower house of Congress ruled out resigning in response to pressure from colleagues over allegations that he took bribes and stashed the money in Swiss bank accounts.

• Monday, October 12th 2015 - 06:16 UTC

  Petrobras corruption scandal could reach US$ 5.3bn: “we've only seen the tip of the iceberg”

  

  Damage from the gargantuan corruption scandal centered on Brazilian state oil company Petrobras could amount to as much as 20 billion Reais ($5.3 billion), a lead prosecutor revealed last week.

• Monday, October 12th 2015 - 06:14 UTC

  Levy confident congress will finally approve austerity measures to help Brazil's economy

  

  The president Dilma Rousseff administration is geared to “preparing the country to deal with a new international reality”, Brazilian Finance Minister Joaquim Levy told Reuters in an interview on Saturday.

• Monday, October 12th 2015 - 06:11 UTC

  Guyana now faced with refloated territorial claims from Suriname

  

  Less than a week after returning from the United Nations, where he raised concerns about Guyana’s border dispute with Venezuela, President David Granger was confronted with a similar issue involving Suriname.

• Saturday, October 10th 2015 - 07:24 UTC

  Rousseff fears “Paraguay-style democratic coup” to remove her from office

  

  President Dilma Rousseff said in a closed-door meeting that Brazil is experiencing a “Paraguayan-style democratic coup,” alluding to the 2012 removal of Paraguay's then-head of state, the Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper reported Friday.

• Saturday, October 10th 2015 - 07:11 UTC

  Opposition will push for impeachment proceedings against Rousseff next week

  

  Brazil opposition lawmakers will push for impeachment proceedings to begin next week against embattled President Dilma Rousseff, local media reported Friday. It comes after the country’s top audit court, the TCU, ruled that the government’s 2014 accounts had been manipulated in the run-up to last year’s presidential elections to give a better impression of the economy and sustain spending on social programs.

• Saturday, October 10th 2015 - 06:52 UTC

  Nobel Peace Prize to only surviving member of the 'Arab spring”

  

  The 2015 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to Tunisia's National Dialogue Quartet for its efforts to bring democracy to the country, where the political upheaval in 2011 sparked pro-democracy movements throughout the Arab world.

• Saturday, October 10th 2015 - 06:37 UTC

  Nobel literature for lady in love with kind Russia, “not that of Stalin or Putin”

  

  Belarusian writer and dissident Svetlana Alexievich won the 2015 Nobel Literature Prize on Thursday for her work chronicling the horrors of war and life under the repressive Soviet regime.

• Saturday, October 10th 2015 - 06:27 UTC

  Global Unions call on IMF and World Bank should take recession threats seriously

  

  Given the Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank taking place in Lima, Peru, the International Trade Union Conference, ITUC, and its Global Unions partners call on the international financial institutions to adopt policies that counter the global economic slowdown.

• Saturday, October 10th 2015 - 06:11 UTC

  The Pope’s Subversive Message

  

  The following piece by Arthur C. Brooks (*) was published in The New York Times opinion page. It is a strong view on Francis's visit significance for US Catholicism.