Politics

• Tuesday, February 25th 2014 - 17:29 UTC

  Gibraltar moved from Group to avoid playing Spain at qualifier for UEFA EURO 2016

  

  Gibraltar will play against the might of Germany, Scotland, Poland, the Republic of Ireland and Georgia in Group D of the qualifying rounds in the Euro 2016 football championships. Gibraltar’s first match is a home-fixture on 7 September against Poland.

• Tuesday, February 25th 2014 - 07:22 UTC

  Gibraltar expands network of agreements for exchange of tax information

  

  Gibraltar lawmakers unanimously approved new legislation that will dramatically expand Gibraltar’s network of agreements for the exchange of tax information. The legislation implements OECD’s Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters in Gibraltar ahead of the March 1 deadline.

• Tuesday, February 25th 2014 - 04:59 UTC

  HMS Richmond back in Portsmouth with a special honor received in Falklands

  

  HMS Richmond is back in Portsmouth at the end of her South Atlantic patrolling that saw her spend 2,881 hours at sea covering 33,316 nautical miles, visiting seven foreign countries (Portugal, Cape Verde, South Africa, Panama, Colombia, Bahamas and the United States of America) and five British Overseas Territories (Ascension Island, St Helena, Falkland Islands, Tristan da Cunha and South Georgia).

• Tuesday, February 25th 2014 - 04:36 UTC

  Mexican billionaire Slim and Protto group, to become main shareholders of New York Times

  

  Mexican magnate Carlos Slim and the Italian group Proto will be the principal shareholders of the US daily The New York Times (NYT), said sources at the Proto Organization. This is because Slim plans to exercise at the end of this year warrants he received when he made a major loan to the newspaper company, according to a report in Bloomberg.

• Tuesday, February 25th 2014 - 04:26 UTC

  Ambassador Castro supports democratic Maduro and blames a “ferocious media attack”

  

  The Argentine ambassador to the United Kingdom, Alicia Castro, openly revealed her support for Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro as protests in the nation continued, while criticizing what she saw as a “ferocious media attack” carried out by opponents of the head of state.

• Tuesday, February 25th 2014 - 04:21 UTC

  US embassy support for Argentina's move to orthodox economics

  

  The US embassy's business adviser in Buenos Aires, Kevin Sullivan, has welcomed negotiations between the Argentine government and Spanish corporation Repsol over the expropriation of YPF, as well as further talks with the Paris Club over the payment of outstanding debt commitments.

• Tuesday, February 25th 2014 - 04:13 UTC

  Pope overhauls Vatican finances and names Secretariat for the Economy

  

  Pope Francis has taken his boldest step yet to overhaul the Vatican's scandal-plagued finances, creating a new department with broad powers to oversee all of its economic and administrative affairs, the Vatican announced on Monday. The Secretariat for the Economy will answer directly to the pope and will be headed by Australian Cardinal George Pell, currently the archbishop of Sydney.

• Monday, February 24th 2014 - 22:28 UTC

  Brazil and EU agree to lay an undersea cable to avoid US internet surveillance

  

  Brazil and the European Union agreed on Monday to lay an undersea communications cable from Lisbon to Fortaleza to reduce Brazil's reliance on the United States after Washington spied on Brasilia.

• Monday, February 24th 2014 - 22:19 UTC

  Rousseff and Barroso optimistic about Mercosur/EU trade talks scheduled to begin 21 March

  

  Trade negotiations between the European Union and Mercosur could move quickly once a technical meeting next month has taken place, EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said after a meeting on Monday with Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff in Brussels and the European Council president Herman Van Rompuy.

• Monday, February 24th 2014 - 06:45 UTC

  Italy experiments with a new prime minister and 16-member cabinet

  

  Center-left leader Matteo Renzi took office on Saturday as Italy's youngest prime minister, facing pressure to show immediate results after he forced out his predecessor over the slow pace of economic reforms.