International

• Monday, March 2nd 2015 - 06:21 UTC

  Germany sells five-year notes in Euros at a negative yield of -0.08%

  

  The German government sold five-year notes at a negative yield for the first time in its history on Wednesday. The milestone comes as the European Central Bank prepares to begin a bond-buying program, known as quantitative easing, in hopes of stimulating growth in economies across the Continent.

• Monday, March 2nd 2015 - 01:14 UTC

  Maduro retaliates and will demand visas from US citizens travelling to Venezuela

  

  President Nicolas Maduro said his government had captured American citizens involved in “espionage activities,” and said US citizens in the future will have to seek visas to come to Venezuela. Speaking during a rally, he said his government will prohibit some US officials from entering Venezuela in retaliation for a similar measure by the government of President Barack Obama against a group of Venezuelan public officials.

• Sunday, March 1st 2015 - 23:35 UTC

  Argentine technical mission to China to assess the purchase of jet fighters

  

  It's official: in the coming weeks a technical delegation from Argentina's Air Force will be travelling to China to assess the convenience of purchasing Chinese jet fighters to replace the obsolete French made Mirages. Only a month ago president Cristina Fernandez was in Beijing where she sealed an “integral strategic alliance” with China.

• Saturday, February 28th 2015 - 11:55 UTC

  Falkland Islands return as leading option for Ramblers Worldwide Holidays

  

  Ramblers Worldwide Holidays has added more options in South America with the reinstatement of a Falkland Islands and Chile itinerary and the return of Bolivia to the program. The first sold-out trip to the Falkland Islands has just returned and another, which is almost full, will run from November 5, leading in at £4,220pp.

• Saturday, February 28th 2015 - 07:38 UTC

  Cameron pledges to use all means to hunt down militants as “Jihadi John”

  

  British Prime Minister David Cameron vowed to use all means at his disposal to hunt down militants such as “Jihadi John” after the killer was identified as a Kuwaiti-born computer programming graduate from London.

• Saturday, February 28th 2015 - 07:28 UTC

  Reshuffle in UK's Standard Chartered leadership; Bill Winters next CEO

  

  Britain's Standard Chartered announced on Thursday the exit of its top two bosses in a radical management reshuffle, as the Asia-focused bank battles to transform its fortunes.

• Saturday, February 28th 2015 - 07:14 UTC

  China has become Latin America's leading banker: 22bn dollars in 2014

  

  Loans by China's state-owned banks to Latin American countries rose by 71% to 22bn dollars in 2014, according to estimates published by the China-Latin America Finance Database. The figure is the second largest on record for Chinese lending in Latin America, according to the report.

• Saturday, February 28th 2015 - 06:48 UTC

  Falklands historic link to Antarctica exploration unveiled in unique memorial

  

  The Falkland Islands historic link as the gateway for British Antarctic exploration was acknowledged this week with the dedication in Stanley's Dockyard Point of the southern component of a unique memorial to the 28 men and one woman of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), and before that the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) who have perished in the Antarctic since the establishment by the British Government of the first permanent research base there in 1944.

• Friday, February 27th 2015 - 08:29 UTC

  Trelew in Patagonia and Caernarfon in Wales to be linked as 'sister-cities'

  

  Trelew in Argentine Patagonia and Caernarfon in Wales will be linked as 'sister-cities' during a ceremony scheduled for next Saturday, attended by Lord Dafydd Wigley and a Welsh delegation visiting the country in anticipation of this year's 150th anniversary of the first Cymru settlement in southern Argentina.

• Friday, February 27th 2015 - 05:46 UTC

  Argentine Congress approves 'strategic integral alliance' agreements with China

  

  Despite the strong questioning from the opposition, the manufacturers' lobby and many unions, the Argentine ruling coalition mustered sufficient votes in the Lower House to pass the controversial package of cooperation, economic and investment agreements between Argentina and China.