Politics

• Monday, July 22nd 2013 - 21:01 UTC

  PM Cameron reassures Gibraltar “no compromise on sovereignty”, following shooting incident

  

  British Prime Minister David Cameron has told Chief Minister Fabian Picardo that Britain “will not compromise on sovereignty” in the face of Spanish incursions into British Gibraltar territorial waters.

• Monday, July 22nd 2013 - 20:36 UTC

  Pope warns of an entire generation of jobless young people, before arriving in Rio

  

  Pope Francis warned Monday that the world risks having an entire generation of jobless young people as he arrived to Brazil. The 76-year-old Argentine, speaking to journalists aboard the papal plane heading to the Catholic youth event in Rio de Janeiro, said his trip aimed in part “to encourage young people to integrate into society” and convince the world not to abandon them.

• Monday, July 22nd 2013 - 20:23 UTC

  Duchess of Cambridge gives birth to a boy; third in the line of succession

  

  The Duchess of Cambridge has given birth to a baby boy, Kensington Palace has announced. The baby was delivered at 16:24 BST at St Mary's Hospital in Paddington, west London, weighing 8lb 6oz.

• Monday, July 22nd 2013 - 06:54 UTC

  Francis, champion of the poor arrives at a restive and Catholic faith losing Brazil

  

  Pope Francis is due in Brazil Monday on his first foreign trip as pontiff to attend an international youth festival in the world's biggest Catholic country.

• Monday, July 22nd 2013 - 06:50 UTC

  The good pastor will put in practice ‘the new way of interacting with the world’

  

  Pope Francis’s response to the challenges of the Catholic Church has been to help find “an entirely new way to interact with the world” by the manner in which he communicates, said Sao Paulo Cardinal Odilo Scherer, one of two Latin Americans named to the Pontifical Council for Promoting New Evangelization created in 2010.

• Monday, July 22nd 2013 - 06:47 UTC

  Re-re-election of Cristina Fernandez “not in government’s agenda”, says Scioli

  

  Re-re-election of President Cristina Fernandez is not in the government’s agenda, Buenos Aires province governor Daniel Scioli affirmed in tune with the Argentine president’s most recent messages: “I am not eternal,’ she has been long insisting.

• Monday, July 22nd 2013 - 06:41 UTC

  US Supreme Court gives hedge funds another 30 days to contest Argentina’s appeal

  

  The US Supreme Court gave hedge funds another month to present their reply following on the request from the Argentine government to review the sentence handed down by Judge Thomas Griesa and partially supported by the Appeals Court.

• Monday, July 22nd 2013 - 06:32 UTC

  OAS chief Inzulza in Uruguay to present report on drug problem in the Americas

  

  The Organization of American States Secretary General José Miguel Insulza begins Monday a two day visit to Uruguay for the formal presentation of the “Report on the Drug Problem in the Americas” which has the support of several Latinamerican countries and former leaders of the region who have proposed a completely new approach to the drugs challenge.

• Monday, July 22nd 2013 - 06:29 UTC

  Mercosur chair not interested in restoring normal relations with US

  

  Venezuela says it's ending talks with the United States to restore normal relations because Washington's UN ambassador-designate criticized its human rights record. Venezuela currently holds the chair of Mercosur.

• Monday, July 22nd 2013 - 06:24 UTC

  Uruguay is “extremely expensive: construction costs are double those of Argentina”

  

  Uruguay is not expensive, ‘it has become extremely expensive” with construction costs that are double those of Argentina, claimed Eduardo Constantini, an Argentine business man with strong investments in Uruguay, the latest of which building 500 summer houses along the eastern coast.