International

• Saturday, February 1st 2014 - 04:04 UTC

  IMF calls on central banks to coordinate liquidity conditions; fears funding crunch

  

  The International Monetary Fund urged central banks to ensure that a financial market rout in the developing world does not lead to an international funding crunch. An IMF spokesman said some emerging market countries need to take “urgent action” to improve their economies, which are under threat by a recent sell-off in markets from India and Turkey to Brazil.

• Friday, January 31st 2014 - 23:14 UTC

  Falklands referendum: observers mission partially financed by Canada, claims Argentina

  

  The Falkland Islands referendum a year ago when an overwhelming majority of Islanders voted to remain as a British Overseas Territory, supported on the UN charter enshrined peoples' right to self determination has become an obsession for Argentina and the official news agency Telam has been researching the international validation of the event and Canadian support stands out strongly.

• Friday, January 31st 2014 - 06:58 UTC

  Chinese communities begin seven-day celebration of the Year of the Horse

  

  Chinese communities around the world are gearing up Thursday for the Lunar New Year holiday that begins at midnight. Mainland China will virtually shut down for the next seven days, and many residents of the polluted capital, Beijing, already have departed for holiday destinations.

• Friday, January 31st 2014 - 06:47 UTC

  One in three children in Spain lives in poverty, according to Save the Children

  

  One in three children in Spain lives at risk of poverty, the international charity Save the Children said in a report. The charity said austerity measures and cutbacks in public spending had worsened the situation and said the number of under-18s “at risk of poverty or marginalization”, an official EU measure of various aspects of economic hardship - soared to more than 2.8 million in 2012.

• Friday, January 31st 2014 - 06:29 UTC

  Bad times for Shell: suspends drilling offshore Alaska and profits plunge

  

  Royal Dutch Shell will suspend drilling in offshore Alaska following an adverse US court decision and as the oil major streamlines operations because of a slump in annual profits, the company said on Thursday.

• Thursday, January 30th 2014 - 19:09 UTC

  Learning about the Falkland Islands

  

  Unsurprisingly, most Australians don’t know much about the Falkland Islands, so visiting Legislative Assembly member Mike Summers faced lots of questions during his trip to Melbourne this week.

• Thursday, January 30th 2014 - 06:46 UTC

  Argentina's YPF wooing Malaysia Petronas to develop shale deposits

  

  Argentina oil company YPF is courting Malaysia's Petronas as a possible partner to develop the promising Vaca Muerta shale, according to reports. YPF chief executive Miguel Galuccio was in Kuala Lumpur for a meeting on Wednesday with Petronas leader Tan Sri Dato Shamsul Azhar Abbas, the La Nacion newspaper reported.

• Thursday, January 30th 2014 - 06:35 UTC

  Celac ratifies full support for Argentina's Malvinas “legitimate sovereignty” claim

  

  The Celac summit in Cuba underlined in its final declaration its determination to strengthen the regional space among Latin American and Caribbean countries and at the same time ratified its full support for Argentina's claim over the Falklands/Malvinas Islands.

• Thursday, January 30th 2014 - 06:12 UTC

  Gastro-bug exhausted passengers cheer as 'Explorer of the Seas' returns to home port

  

  Passengers staggered off a Royal Caribbean ship reeking of vomit and diarrhea at its home port on Wednesday after their cruise was cut short by an apparent stomach bug that felled nearly 700 vacationers and crew. Cheers erupted from the Explorer of the Seas as the vessel pulled into Bayonne, New Jersey, in New York Harbor.

• Thursday, January 30th 2014 - 06:01 UTC

  Malvinas claim support from Celac, underlined by Argentine president

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez celebrated the advances in integration achieved by Latin America and the Caribbean, and thanked country members for their support in Argentina's claim over the Malvinas and other South Atlantic Islands sovereignty.