International

• Thursday, January 15th 2015 - 05:32 UTC

  Argentine president accused of 'covering up' Iran's role in Buenos Aires deadly attack

  

  An Argentine federal special prosecutor on Wednesday accused President Cristina Fernandez of seeking to cover up the involvement of Iran in a 1994 terrorist attack on a Jewish cultural center in Buenos Aires that claimed 85 lives and 300 injured.

• Thursday, January 15th 2015 - 05:09 UTC

  Premier drastically cuts spending; Falklands projects included in 2015 agenda

  

  UK hydrocarbons producer Premier Oil with strong interests in the Falklands expects to book a 300 million dollars impairment charge due to the plunge in oil prices and plans to cut jobs and investment by 40% compared to 2014, to rein in costs, it said on Wednesday.

• Wednesday, January 14th 2015 - 22:46 UTC

  Chinese jet fighters, an option to re-equip the Argentine Air Force

  

  China has emerged as a possible supplier of jet fighters to help modernize the Argentine Air Force, depleted since the 1982 Falklands' war, according to reports from Defense News. In effect the FC-1/JF-17’s, 'Thunder' operational with the Pakistani air force and proven in combat could be a suitable, accessible option for the Argentines after the Spanish, French, Israeli offers seem to have fallen through.

• Wednesday, January 14th 2015 - 09:31 UTC

  World Bank cuts 2015 global growth forecast; however lower oil prices will delay rate hikes

  

  The World Bank on Tuesday cut its global growth forecast for 2015 and lowered the estimate for 2014, as several headwinds mitigate the effects of an improving U. S. economy and plunging oil prices.

• Wednesday, January 14th 2015 - 07:47 UTC

  OPEC member stands by group's decision not to cut output to tackle glut

  

  Brent and US WTI crude oil prices fell to their lowest levels in almost six years on Tuesday as a big OPEC producer stood by the group's decision not to cut output to tackle a glut in the market.

• Wednesday, January 14th 2015 - 07:30 UTC

  Paris killings deepen Islam controversy in Germany with rallies in several cities

  

  Thousands of Germans turned out for an anti-Islam rally on Monday in Dresden, where some protesters wore black ribbons to show their solidarity with the 17 victims of last week’s terror attacks in Paris.

• Wednesday, January 14th 2015 - 07:19 UTC

  New Zealand navy detects three toothfish poachers red-handed in the Ross Sea

  

  The New Zealand navy has discovered a third boat fishing illegally. The Foreign Ministry informed that the HMNZS Wellington caught another vessel, “Yongding”, to the west of the Ross Sea, in Antarctic waters.

• Wednesday, January 14th 2015 - 07:09 UTC

  HMS Protector involved in CCAMLR inspection in Antarctic waters

  

  The Royal Navy’s Ice Patrol Ship has carried out her first inspection of a fishing vessel in Antarctic Waters. HMS Protector met the fishing vessel while on patrol in Antarctic waters and made arrangements to carry out the inspection.

• Wednesday, January 14th 2015 - 07:01 UTC

  Cancer 'bad luck' theory strongly questioned by WHO specialized agency

  

  The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the World Health Organization’s specialized cancer agency, strongly disagrees with the conclusion of a scientific report on the causes of human cancer published in the journal Science on 2 January 2015 by D. Christian Tomasetti and Dr. Bert Vogelstein.

• Wednesday, January 14th 2015 - 06:55 UTC

  Philanthropist who funded recovery of Falklands' SS Great Britain had died

  

  Sir Jack Hayward, the man instrumental in bringing the SS Great Britain back to Bristol, has died. The 91-year-old multi-millionaire helped fund the project to return Brunel's ship from the Falkland Islands in 1970, a journey of 8,000 miles. Known as 'Union Jack' for his patriotism, the businessman was a former owner of Wolverhampton Wanderers.