International

• Wednesday, July 3rd 2013 - 11:45 UTC

  Rockhopper: High Court confirms the cancellation of the Company's Share Premium Account

  

  Rockhopper Exploration plc (AIM: RKH), the North Falkland Basin oil and gas company, announces that at a hearing today, the Companies Court of the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice confirmed the cancellation of the Company's share premium account (“Cancellation of Share Premium Account”). The Cancellation of the Share Premium Account is expected to become effective tomorrow, 4 July 2013.

• Wednesday, July 3rd 2013 - 03:38 UTC

  OAS Secretary General Expresses Deep Displeasure over Airplane Incident involving President Morales in Europe

  

  The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, expressed his deep displeasure with the decision of the aviation authorities of several European countries that denied the use of airspace to the plane carrying the President of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, Evo Morales, from Moscow to La Paz.

• Wednesday, July 3rd 2013 - 03:25 UTC

  Evo Morales' plane rerouted on suspicion Snowden on board.

  

  The plane carrying Bolivian President Evo Morales home from Russia was rerouted to Austria on Tuesday after France and Portugal refused to let it cross their airspace because of suspicions that NSA leaker Edward Snowden was on board, the country's foreign minister said.

• Tuesday, July 2nd 2013 - 10:08 UTC

  Unedited full version of Edward Snowden statement

  

  US citizenship: a weapon for the government? Is this spy a hero or criminal? A petition demanding the Obama administration pardon Snowden has collected over 120,000 digital signatures, way above the threshold where the White House should issue a response.

• Monday, July 1st 2013 - 21:29 UTC

  Croatia joins the European Union

  

  On the 1 July 2013, Croatia became the 28th member of the EU after a decade of carrying out all the reforms needed to bring it into line with EU laws and standards.

• Friday, June 28th 2013 - 07:37 UTC

  Aditya Birla Group has the largest business turnover among Indian companies in Latin

  

  Aditya Birla Group is a late entrant to Latin America and came very much later than the Tatas and Reliance, the other big iconic Indian business groups. However Birla has made up for lost time by emerging as the Indian company with the largest annual business turnover in Latin America, which was around 1.8 billion dollars last year. Birla is also the largest investor from the Indian private sector in Latin America.

• Friday, June 28th 2013 - 07:23 UTC

  Falklands Referendum: Voters from many countries around the world voted Yes

  

  By Professor Peter Willetts - In March, 1,513 people in the Falklands voted Yes to remaining a British Overseas Territory and only three people voted No. The Yes vote was a remarkable 99.8% of the voters on an exceptionally high turnout of 92.0%. The orthodox view that British voters chose to remain British is not enough to explain the result.

• Thursday, June 27th 2013 - 05:25 UTC

  Energy companies pull a Blackwater (*)

  

  By Daniel J. Graeber - Norwegian energy company Statoil said last week it was forming a special operations division to handle emergency operations in response to a terrorist attack on a natural gas facility in Algeria. The company said it would double the amount of employees it had designated for existing security operations after reviewing the measures in place at the In Amenas gas facility.

• Thursday, June 27th 2013 - 05:14 UTC

  London cabs with publicity inviting to visit and enjoy Uruguay

  

  Sights of the Atlantic beaches from the hills surrounding the Uruguayan coast can be admired while travelling to Piccadilly Circus or to Westminster Palace in any one of the 75 London cabs with publicity contracted by Uruguay’s Ministry of Tourism began on the 17th June.

• Thursday, June 27th 2013 - 04:56 UTC

  France confirms recession and budget deficit above EU 3% ceiling

  

  The weak state of the French economy and uncertain outlook for budget targets was in focus on Wednesday after official data confirmed that the country is in recession. Weak growth and public finances in France are of acute concern to the European Commission and to Germany which is the main powerhouse in the Euro zone.
  The figures are also watched closely on nervous financial markets.