International

• Saturday, February 9th 2013 - 08:33 UTC

  Spain disappointed with Gibraltar’s Picardo picture next to President Obama

  

  The Spanish Ministry for Foreign Affairs has contacted the US government to express its unease over the recent visit by the Gibraltar Government to Washington, according to reports published in Spain.

• Saturday, February 9th 2013 - 00:34 UTC

  Major Commonwealth parliamentary conference opens Tuesday in the Falklands

  

  The 43rd British Islands and Mediterranean Region Annual Conference of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association which is being hosted by the Falkland Islands for the second time will begin next Tuesday and will convene 37 delegates with Canada and Anguilla as observers.

• Saturday, February 9th 2013 - 00:07 UTC

  “Islanders exist: here we are”, the toast at Falkland House in London

  

  Falkland Islands lawmaker Dick Sawle invited to toast for “the existence of the Islanders” during a reception at Falkland House in London, on Thursday evening, at the end of a hectic but productive week of contacts, interviews and intense lobbying for the Islands and the coming March referendum.

• Friday, February 8th 2013 - 23:59 UTC

  Falklands will reply to Mr Timerman next month, when the referendum, said Governor Haywood

  

  Falkland Islands governor Nigel Haywood said that the “Islanders will reply in next month’s referendum” whether Argentina could be in control of the Malvinas archipelago ‘within twenty years’, as was announced by Argentine Foreign Minister Hector Timerman earlier this week in London.

• Friday, February 8th 2013 - 05:04 UTC

  Iran/Argentina agreement to Congress but Jewish community reject contents demand a new one

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernández announced she would send to Congress the recent agreement reached between Argentina and Iran in order to investigate the AMIA bombing in 1994, and assured that “the Argentine Justice will not be obstructed.”

• Friday, February 8th 2013 - 04:49 UTC

  Timerman in London: a scam conference that almost worked

  

  By Peter Pepper - Private conferences have long been used by pressure groups to get something they want onto the public agenda. The so-called Argentine-British Conferences were like this. They were an Argentine idea, and the so-called 'British' delegations were largely controlled by, and packed with, Falklands’ opponents in Britain. They achieved the nickname the Argentine Biased Conferences or the Anti-British Conferences. But they failed in their objective and faded away.

• Friday, February 8th 2013 - 04:28 UTC

  Uruguayan lawmakers confirm they will travel to Falklands for the referendum

  

  At least two Uruguayan lawmakers have confirmed to the British embassy in Montevideo that they will be travelling to the Falkland Islands next March for the referendum on the Islands political status and future. The trips are financed by the embassy and according to parliament sources in Montevideo the list could become longer.The news was published in a Montevideo weekly.

• Thursday, February 7th 2013 - 21:53 UTC

  Aubrey McClendon and the Destruction of the Natural Gas Market

  

  Aubrey McClendon is gone – or at least he's on his way out from Chesapeake energy (CHK). But the destruction of the natural gas market, where he was the ringleader in the shale gas land grab and cratering well price, is his real legacy, and not likely to be recovered from anytime soon. While Aubrey will now go into a very wealthy retirement, he leaves behind a decimated market and a long road to making natural gas a true transition fuel to energy independence and a renewable future.

• Thursday, February 7th 2013 - 21:44 UTC

  Argentina says Falklands’ issue “smells too much like petroleum

  

  Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman said on Thursday that the British government’s position on the Falklands/Malvinas Islands issue “smells too much like petroleum”, revealing that UK’s biggest interest in keeping the invaded archipelago is due to the potential oil findings.

• Thursday, February 7th 2013 - 19:32 UTC

  Bank of England next governor favours “flexible inflation targeting”

  

  Bank of England has chosen not to inject any more money into the economy, leaving its quantitative easing (QE) programme at £375bn. The Bank also left interest rates unchanged at 0.5%.