Stories for February 2012

Saturday, February 4th 2012 - 19:46 UTC
Costa Cruises calls for tenders to remove the crippled Concordia cruise vessel

Plans have been put in place to start removing the wreck of the Costa Concordia after it run aground with 4.200 people on board last month. Costa Cruises confirmed that it has called for tenders from 10 specialist companies for the removal of the crippled vessel.
Saturday, February 4th 2012 - 19:42 UTC
Captain Schettino’s lover admits she was in the Concordia bridge when the crash

The Moldovan blonde spotted with the captain of the shipwrecked Costa Concordia, Francesco Schettino, on the night of the disaster, has told Italian investigators she is in love with him.
Saturday, February 4th 2012 - 17:25 UTC
Flight Lt. Wales takes up his duties in the Falkland Islands

Flt Lt Wales has commenced his duties as an RAF Search and Rescue (SAR) helicopter pilot in the Falkland Islands providing Search and Rescue cover for both the civilian and military population.
Saturday, February 4th 2012 - 05:37 UTC
PM Cameron meets Obama in March ahead of the Falklands conflict anniversary

British Prime Minister David Cameron and US President Barack Obama will meet in Washington next month, three weeks before the 30 anniversary of the beginning of the Falklands conflict.
Saturday, February 4th 2012 - 05:35 UTC
Argentina organized labour leader again blasts the government

The Argentine organized labour CGT umbrella union leader Hugo Moyano once again blasted the government insisting he doesn’t understand the “fine-tuning” metaphor that President Cristina Fernández used to refer to subsidy cuts.
Saturday, February 4th 2012 - 05:31 UTC
Argentine 2011 car sales in domestic market set to establish a new record

Argentine auto sales rose 8.2% in January from a year earlier to 112,607 units, the car dealers’ association Acara said in an e-mailed report on Friday. January’s sales were 43.5% more than December’s, the report said.
Saturday, February 4th 2012 - 05:28 UTC
New York State sues three top leading US banks on mortgage database abuse

Bank of America Corp., Wells Fargo & Co and JP Morgan Chase & Co were sued by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman over the use of a mortgage database that the state said led to improper foreclosures.
Saturday, February 4th 2012 - 05:25 UTC
Argentina eliminates tax breaks for big oil and gas companies

Argentina has cut 461 million dollars in annual tax breaks granted as investment incentives to big oil companies operating in the country, the government said on Friday, as part of a wider austerity program.
Friday, February 3rd 2012 - 23:19 UTC
IMF calls on emerging countries to contribute to increase its war-chest

International Monetary Fund should proceed with talks on increasing the size of its war-chest at the same time as Europe discusses how to build a firewall to contain its debt crisis, a senior official from the fund said on Friday.
Friday, February 3rd 2012 - 23:13 UTC
ALBA summit takes off celebrating a frustrated 1992 military coup by Chavez

Cuban president Raul Castro arrived on Friday to Caracas for the XI summit of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Peoples of America, ALBA, and to participate in the celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the frustrated military coup by then a young Lieutenant Colonel Hugo Chavez, currently Venezuelan president.