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  • Monday, April 15th 2013 - 02:56 UTC

    Bird flu reaches Beijing; first case outside east China which has reported 51 infections

    Facemasks are back on fear of the spread of bird flu

    Chinese capital Beijing reported on Saturday its first case of a new strain of bird flu, state news agency Xinhua said, the first time it has been found in a human outside of eastern China.

  • Saturday, April 13th 2013 - 05:39 UTC

    A view from the Falklands on Margaret Thatcher's legacy

    Falklands for ever grateful for liberation and her support after the war, said MLA Summers

    By Mike Summers (*)

    The reports on the reaction in the United Kingdom to the death of Baroness Thatcher have shown a clear contrast between those who approved of her policies and those that did not. This is understandable and is no doubt true of any prime minister. However, here in the Falkland Islands there is very little difference of opinion. Margaret Thatcher is held in high regard and with deep affection by Islanders, for she is someone to whom we owe much.

  • Saturday, April 13th 2013 - 05:31 UTC

    Madrid’s city council to vote naming a street after Margaret Thatcher

    The initiative is sponsored by Madrid’s Mayor Ana Botella, former wife of Conservative president Jose Maria Aznar

    Madrid's conservative-run city council said on Friday it wants to name a street in the Spanish capital after former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, whose legacy has proved as polarising in death as she was in life.

  • Friday, April 12th 2013 - 23:12 UTC

    Thatcherism spread far and wide but with a hollowed middle class, for how long?

    The first politician to grasp the decline of the old working class as an electoral asset

    By Gwynne Dyer - Margaret Thatcher was the woman who began the shift to the right that has affected almost all the countries of the West in the past three decades. But it is an open question whether even the crash of 2008 and the ensuing prolonged recession have finally ended the long reign of her ideas in Western politics.

  • Friday, April 12th 2013 - 06:19 UTC

    Dairy produce push FAO food price index one percent higher in March

    The dairy price surge is caused by hot, dry weather in Oceania, which has led to milk production falling off steeply

    The FAO Food Price Index (FPI) crept higher by one percent in March compared with a month before, driven mainly by an 11% increase in dairy. Dairy products carry a 17% weight among the various commodity prices included in the calculation of the overall FPI.

  • Friday, April 12th 2013 - 05:49 UTC

    G8 Foreign ministers condemn North Korea but could not agree on Syria

    The G8 ministers ‘family’ picture

    G8 foreign ministers strongly condemned North Korea over its nuclear program on Thursday but failed to bridge divisions over Syria beyond calling for more humanitarian aid for victims of the conflict.

  • Friday, April 12th 2013 - 00:34 UTC

    The Iron Lady and I!

    Harold Briley (R) interviewing Margaret Thatcher in London as a Falklands’ anniversary reunion with David Tatham, a former governor of the Islands

    Mercopress correspondent Harold Briley knew Margaret Thatcher well, here reminiscing on fifty years of reporting her activities for half a century as a BBC Political, Latin America. Defence and East Europe Correspondent.

  • Thursday, April 11th 2013 - 18:18 UTC

    Controversy over the cost of the funeral; William Hague to the rescue

    Hague argued that Lady Thatcher negotiated savings for the UK from the EU equivalent to £75bn, “that puts money in perspective”

    The cost of Lady Thatcher’s funeral next Wednesday will be revealed afterwards, but the Daily Mirror has estimated it could be as high as £10m. The taxpayer is expected to foot most of the bill, with the Thatcher family agreeing to make an unspecified contribution.
    Foreign Secretary Hague said Britain could “afford” to cover some of the costs.

  • Thursday, April 11th 2013 - 18:03 UTC

    Details of Lady Thatcher’s funeral; Cristina Fernandez not in the invite list

    Over 2.000 invitations will be sent out for the funeral service at St Paul’s

    Britain has decided not to invite Argentine President Cristina Kirchner to the funeral of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Downing Street said on Thursday. The decision follows on a special request from the Thatcher family.However Ambassdor Alicia Castro will be invited since according to diplomatic protocol Britain has normal relations with the UK, and it is a state to state issue.

  • Thursday, April 11th 2013 - 15:26 UTC

    Crucially different from Hong Kong

    By Steve Tsang (*) - Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher fought a war with Argentina to defend the Falklands, but she negotiated with China over the future of Hong Kong. Should the apparent success of British diplomacy in securing an acceptable future of Hong Kong be a shining example for a similar solution for the Falklands?