Politics

• 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.

• Saturday, October 10th 2015 - 02:56 UTC

  FIFA in turmoil: Blatter appeals suspension; emergency meeting 20 October

  

  FIFA president Sepp Blatter has appealed against the 90-day ban that forced him out of office, as world football's sleaze-tainted governing body headed into months of turmoil over how to find a new leader.

• Saturday, October 10th 2015 - 02:38 UTC

  “Enough is enough”, FIFA needs 'credible external presidential candidate', says IOC head

  

  International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach has issued his strongest critique of FIFA and urged the scandal-tainted federation to seek a “credible external presidential candidate” to regain credibility.

• Saturday, October 10th 2015 - 02:20 UTC

  Gibraltar invited to high level security briefing at Ministry of Defense in London

  

  Gibraltar's Chief Minister Fabian Picardo has been invited to attend a high level security briefing at the Ministry of Defense in London next week, part of a drive by the British Government to foster closer links with the Government of Gibraltar.

• Friday, October 9th 2015 - 10:20 UTC

  Corriere Della Sera apologizes to Cristina Fernandez for publishing 'false news on her shopping'

  

  A Roman appeals court has confirmed a ruling against Italy’s Corriere Della Sera newspaper for a defamatory piece on Argentine president Cristina Fernández.

• Friday, October 9th 2015 - 07:48 UTC

  Falklands celebrates on Saturday cultural diversity day

  

  The Falkland Islands cultural diversity will be celebrated with a whole day of events on Saturday, 10 October. The Falklands with a population of 3.000 according to the latest census, has integrated people born in 53 different countries, with predominance from Britain, St Helena and Chile.

• Friday, October 9th 2015 - 07:30 UTC

  “Something is rotten in FIFA”: out Blatter, Platini, Valcke, and in comes Africa's Hayatou

  

  The president of the African football confederation Issa Hayatou steps up to replace Sepp Blatter who was on Thursday suspended for 90 days over corruption allegations. Blatter was provisionally suspended for 90 days along with secretary general Jerome Valcke and UEFA chief Michel Platini.

• Friday, October 9th 2015 - 07:05 UTC

  Guyana looks forward to Canadian support in territorial claims with Venezuela

  

  The government of Guyana will be looking forward to Canada’s support against the territorial claims by Venezuela even as it seeks to strengthen its ties and bilateral agreements with the state, through new Canadian High Commissioner to Guyana, Pierre Giroux.

• Friday, October 9th 2015 - 06:42 UTC

  Falklands' bound Argentine 'militant' yacht rescued abandoned by fisheries protection vessel

  

  An Argentine flagged yacht “La Sanmartiniana” belonging to a political group which responds to Argentine president Cristina Fernandez son, Maximo Kirchner, was detected abandoned in the high seas by the Falklands Islands Fisheries Protection Vessel, FPV Protegat and is being towed to Port Stanley, reports a release from the Falklands government.