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  • Tuesday, March 31st 2015 - 10:13 UTC

    Brazil ready to join China's Asian Investment bank; (Argentina any moment)

    The office of president Dilma Rousseff said “Brazil is very interested in participating in this initiative,” from the country's main trading partner

    The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, AIIB, seen as a challenge to existing institutions the World Bank and Asian Development Bank, has drawn a cool response from the United States, despite which European U.S. allies including Britain, France, Germany and Italy have already announced they would join the bank.

  • Tuesday, March 31st 2015 - 09:24 UTC

    UK electoral campaign takes off; no party expected to win a clear majority

    Cameron said a Labor victory would bring “economic chaos” and threaten Britain's recovery. “Debt will rise and jobs will be lost as a result”

    British Prime Minister David Cameron paid a courtesy call on Queen Elizabeth II, then launched a most non courteous attack on his main political rival as campaigning formally began Monday in the most unpredictable U.K. election in decades.

  • Tuesday, March 31st 2015 - 08:52 UTC

    Falklands' defense: Argentina formalizes complaint to UN and regional groups

    UK alleges a preposterous 'live threat' from Argentina with the sole purpose of trying to justify a military presence in the Falklands, said Timerman

    Argentina dispatched on Monday complaint letters to several international and regional organizations accusing the United Kingdom of further militarizing the Falklands/Malvinas, with an increased budget, alleging Argentina represents a 'live threat' to the Islanders in the British Overseas Territory and thus ignoring tens of resolutions calling for dialogue between the two sides on the Falklands issue.

  • Tuesday, March 31st 2015 - 08:41 UTC

    Falklands' clearance of Argentine mines planned to restart in mid-September

    “This latest phase is the fourth and largest, and is scheduled to take place over the next two years”, said Marot head of the demining program in Falklands

    The Falkland Islands program to clear mines planted by the invading Argentine forces in 1982, is scheduled to take a break at the end of April, following a very successful task all along summer according to Guy Marot, Program Manager for the Falkland Islands Demining Program Office, as reported in the FIG's edition of February.

  • Monday, March 30th 2015 - 09:34 UTC

    Carnival and associates to incorporate nine new cruise vessels by 2022

    Carnival Corporation signed this week two strategic memorandums that will add nine new cruise ships to the company’s fleet over a four-year period

    Carnival Corporation enters into strategic partnerships to add nine cruise ships to its fleet over a four-year period starting in 2019; shipbuilders Fincantieri and Meyer Werft to each build next-generation cruise ships for Carnival Corporation through two separate, long-term partnerships, reports Maritime Link.

  • Monday, March 30th 2015 - 06:58 UTC

    Falklands' oil industry advances despite the fall in oil prices, according to FT

    Sam Moody insists that a smaller scale plan at Sea Lion with an initial outlay of 1.8bn dollars or less, could guarantee the beginning of production before 2020”.

    A recent piece from the Financial Times points to the fact that despite the remoteness of the Falkland Islands, the fall of international oil prices and the ongoing conflict with Argentina, this has not impeded small oil and gas companies from going ahead with exploration, and hopefully before 2020 production, in the Islands waters.

  • Monday, March 30th 2015 - 06:47 UTC

    Citibank suspended in Argentina “until it revokes agreement with Griesa and holdout funds”

    The “precautionary suspension” was ordered as CNV considered that the bank “did not act according to Argentine banking law” said Kicillof

    Economy Minister Axel Kicillof said the suspension of Citibank Argentina, ordered by the National Securities Commission (CNV) financial watchdog, will stay in place until the bank revokes its agreement not to appeal US Judge Thomas Griesa’s ruling that interest payments on Argentina's restructured local law bonds could not be processed if the bank was allowed to make two one-off payments to help it exit its local custody business.

  • Monday, March 30th 2015 - 06:32 UTC

    French local elections confirm come back of Sarkozy and containment of Marie Le Pen

    ”The French people have massively rejected the policies of (President) Francois Hollande and his government,” he told party supporters.

    The far-right National Front (FN) made only limited gains in French local elections won by ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy's conservatives. The anti-immigrant, anti-EU party is likely to have won up to 108 local council seats, from holding only one currently. But they will have too few in any one of the 102 “departements” to control any of them, updated Sunday exit polls showed.

  • Sunday, March 29th 2015 - 09:47 UTC

    Sea Shepherd receives unexpected help in the 100-day chase of poacher

    For the past 100 days Sea Shepherd's flagship the Bob Barker has been chasing a poacher caught taking Patagonian toothfish from Australian territorial waters (Pic FB)

    One of Australia's biggest commercial fishing businesses has joined forces with militant environment group Sea Shepherd in an unheralded bid to stop pirate fishing boats. David Carter, from Perth-based Austral Fisheries, said the company was joining forces with Sea Shepherd because it wanted to lend moral support to the group's efforts to stamp out poaching.

  • Saturday, March 28th 2015 - 11:46 UTC

    Gibraltar Deputy Chief Minister lobbies Democrats and Republicans in US Congress

    Dr Garcia recalled Gibraltar has been a close ally of the US for over 200 years which dates back to the US’s first intervention overseas against the Barbary States

    Gibraltar Deputy Chief Minister Dr. Joseph Garcia highlighted the long and historic relationship between Gibraltar and the United States during a series of meetings in Washington. In a busy schedule Dr Garcia held meetings at the offices of both Democratic and Republican members of Congress on Capitol Hill.