Stories for March 20th 2013

Wednesday, March 20th 2013 - 08:13 UTC
For Argentina’s tax-revenue office Afip, Malvinas are a foreign territory, most probably British

Despite persistent claims before the world, and his Holiness, that the Malvinas Islands are Argentine, for the tax office in Buenos Aires in practical terms they really are a foreign country, according to the latest resolution which applies an additional fee of 20% to tickets and overseas expenditure with Argentine debit or credit cards.
Wednesday, March 20th 2013 - 08:08 UTC
Chinese leadership pledges new relationship with US and demands respect for ‘core interests’

Chinese President Xi Jinping told US Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew in Beijing on Tuesday that he wants to build a new type of relationship with Washington centred on core interests.
Wednesday, March 20th 2013 - 08:00 UTC
Germany warns Cyprus ‘banks might never reopen’ if terms of bailout are rejected

Germany's finance minister has warned Cyprus that its crisis-stricken banks may never be able to reopen if it rejects the terms of a bailout. Wolfgang Schaeuble said major Cypriot banks were “insolvent if there are no emergency funds”.
Wednesday, March 20th 2013 - 07:54 UTC
UK reopens embassy in Paraguay in July and names Latam expert ambassador

The UK has appointed ambassador to Paraguay as part of the current government’s plan to recover lost ground in Latinamerica. The British embassy in Asunción was closed in 2005 and has since had a non resident ambassador based in Buenos Aires.
Wednesday, March 20th 2013 - 07:46 UTC
Venezuelan presidential candidate Capriles pledges “not another drop of oil to Cuba”

Venezuelan opposition presidential candidate on Monday vowed to end the OPEC nation's shipments of subsidized oil to the Castro brothers regime in Cuba, slamming acting President as a puppet of Havana.
Wednesday, March 20th 2013 - 07:41 UTC
South Atlantic patrol HMS Argyll saves the life of a Japanese fisherman in high seas

Sailors onboard the South Atlantic patrol Royal Navy HMS Argyll saved the life of a Japanese fisherman who had suffered a serious head injury off the coast of Africa. Approximately 20 miles off the Cape Verde coast she received news that a fisherman onboard the trawler Wakashio Maru No 82 had been seriously hurt in an accident 24 hours earlier.
Wednesday, March 20th 2013 - 07:31 UTC
Pope Francis can do without Cristina Fernandez

By Jimmy Burns (*) - This is the same President that has viewed Jorge Bergoglio as an opponent when he served as Cardinal Archbishop of Buenos Aires and has allowed her allies in the Argentine media to try and wreck his reputation by claiming, unjustly, he was complicit in the military regime’s dirty war.
Wednesday, March 20th 2013 - 07:23 UTC
Falklands: OAS sceptical about possible mediation from the Pope: he’s Argentine

The Organization of American States Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza is sceptical about a possible mediation from Pope Francis between Argentina and the UK over the Falklands/Malvinas sovereignty dispute as was requested by President Cristina Fernandez.