Politics

• Saturday, October 3rd 2015 - 07:17 UTC

  Umpqua killer: interest in high-profile shootings, angry at not having a girlfriend and bitter at the world

  

  Christopher Harper-Mercer was withdrawn and quiet as he grew up in southern California, spending most of his time indoors at his mother’s apartment and deflecting neighbors when they asked him how he was doing, or why he always wore the same outfit of combat boots and green Army pants. But there was one subject that got him to open up: guns.

• Saturday, October 3rd 2015 - 06:57 UTC

  President Santos confirms Colombian drug lord killed in military operation

  

  A wanted Colombian drug lord who had a $5-million price on his head from the United States has been killed in a military operation, authorities said Friday. Victor “Megateo” Navarro, a former guerrilla fighter accused of running a cocaine supply route along the Colombian-Venezuelan border, was first reported killed in August.

• Friday, October 2nd 2015 - 06:34 UTC

  Frustrated Obama challenges voters to support changes in gun laws

  

  A visibly frustrated President Barack Obama said on Thursday that thoughts and prayers are no longer enough as Americans respond to another deadly school shooting, and he challenged voters wanting to deal with the problem to vote for elected officials who will do something.

• Friday, October 2nd 2015 - 06:29 UTC

  Interpol's 'blue notice' for Argentina's former top-spy; US ambassador summoned to ministry

  

  Interpol issued a “blue notice” ordering all its agencies around the world to search for and locate former Argentine Intelligence Secretariat (SI) Operations chief Antonio “Jaime” Stiuso so that the Attorney General’s Unit for the Investigation into the attack on the AMIA Jewish community centre (UFI AMIA) could issue a new subpoena to question him about his role in the probe.

• Friday, October 2nd 2015 - 06:24 UTC

  Argentine Catholic church calls for elections to be held with 'transparency'

  

  The Argentine Catholic Church called for the upcoming presidential elections on 25 October to be held with “transparency” and urged candidates to present “their proposals and ideas with clarity” and regretted a climate “which debilitates the credibility of persons and institutions”.

• Friday, October 2nd 2015 - 06:09 UTC

  Zurich, Geneva and New York, most expensive cities in the world, says UBS

  

  UBS released on Thursday the 16th edition of its UBS Prices and Earnings study, which examines prices, wages and earners' purchasing power in 71 cities worldwide. The study, published roughly every three years since 1971, compiles over 68,000 data points reflecting economic events that have shaped the world since the last edition in 2012.

• Friday, October 2nd 2015 - 05:58 UTC

  Mercosur and EU analyze 'level of ambition' of their trade proposals

  

  Technical delegates from Mercosur and the European Union are holding a round of talks in Asunción to consider 'levels of ambition' for the coming exchange of tariff proposals with the purpose of reaching a much delayed free trade agreement, said Paraguayan Deputy Economic Relations minister, Rigoberto Gauto.

• Friday, October 2nd 2015 - 05:20 UTC

  Caricom fully supports Guyana's 'territorial integrity' and insists the Caribbean is Zone of Peace

  

  Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM) Foreign Ministers have welcomed Venezuela’s decision to receive a United Nations (UN) technical team which will provide recommendations to the UN Secretary-General on the way forward to a full and final solution to its territorial dispute with Guyana. And they say they fully support Guyana’s “territorial integrity”.

• Thursday, October 1st 2015 - 08:58 UTC

  Rousseff's approval ratings languish: two thirds consider her government “bad or terrible”

  

  Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff's approval ratings languished in September, held down by the country’s economic and political crises, as her opposition in Congress considers opening impeachment proceedings.

• Thursday, October 1st 2015 - 08:51 UTC

  Petrobras hikes gasoline and diesel prices to help with the company's finances

  

  Brazil's state-controlled Petrobras unexpectedly increased wholesale gasoline and diesel prices in the domestic market, potentially widening a controversial premium to international prices. The heavily indebted company said that the gasoline price would increase by 6%, and diesel by 4%, as of this Wednesday.