International

• Wednesday, November 21st 2012 - 20:07 UTC

  Brazil increases gold holdings to 52.5 tons, according to the IMF

  

  Brazil increased gold reserves for a second month in October to the highest level in more than 11 years as emerging nations from Kazakhstan to Russia boosted holdings by more than 40 metric tons.

• Wednesday, November 21st 2012 - 20:01 UTC

  Ghana rejects Argentine plea to drop case of impounded frigate ARA Libertad

  

  Ghana rejected on Wednesday Argentina’s plea for Accra City’s Commercial Tribunal to drop the case that kept the ARA Libertad navy training frigate impounded at Tema port since October 2nd.

• Wednesday, November 21st 2012 - 08:13 UTC

  Sir Rex Hunt helped change British thinking towards the Falklands

  

  Falklands Governor Nigel Haywood underlined the influence of Sir Rex Hunt on the attitude of the British government and British thinking towards the Falklands, helping to understand that “the lives of the Islanders really had to come first”.

• Tuesday, November 20th 2012 - 19:05 UTC

  Falklands claims UN Decolonization chair is not acting with impartiality

  

  The Falkland Islands government complained on Tuesday that the Chairman of the UN Decolonization Committee, Ambassador Diego Morejón Pazmiño is not acting with the impartiality that his role demands and revealed a letter, which remains unanswered, inviting the ambassador to visit the Falklands matching his informative trip to Argentina on the sovereignty of the Islands dispute.

• Tuesday, November 20th 2012 - 00:46 UTC

  Repsol wants fair compensation from Argentina; will appeal to all legal resources

  

  Repsol Chairman Antonio Brufau has expressed his determination to reach a solution on compensation for the nationalisation of its shares in YPF, and says that he is willing to take the matter to an international court level to ensure a fair amount is paid.

• Monday, November 19th 2012 - 12:22 UTC

  Latin America pledges support for Spain but warns austerity only deepens the crisis

  

  Latin America pledged investment opportunities for recession-hit Spanish and Portuguese companies but warned its former colonial masters drastic cost cutting would only deepen their misery.

• Monday, November 19th 2012 - 11:50 UTC

  EU on collision course over long-term trillion Euro budget

  

  European Union looks set for a new round of clashes this week as an extraordinary summit called to agree a long-term trillion-Euro budget heads for an ugly showdown, possibly even failure.

• Monday, November 19th 2012 - 11:37 UTC

  Gasoline rationing extended in New York until next Friday

  

  Gasoline rationing in New York City which was scheduled to end on Monday has been extended through Friday, even as the gas station lines that prompted it have all but disappeared.

• Monday, November 19th 2012 - 11:24 UTC

  UN consensus decision confirms Spain formally abandons Gibraltar trilateral process

  

  Spain’s decision to pull out of the trilateral process was formally recorded in the consensus decision on Gibraltar adopted by the United Nations General Assembly this year.

• Monday, November 19th 2012 - 11:19 UTC

  Australia imposes a two-year ban on super-trawlers

  

  Australian Environment minister Tony Burke signed into force on Monday a two-year ban on any super trawler operating in the small pelagic fishery. The ban is based on a battery of new laws and seems directed to the arrival to Australia of the Dutch vessel Abel Tasman.