International

• Saturday, September 15th 2012 - 06:39 UTC

  Busy international agenda for Falkland Islands lawmakers

  

  Members of the Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly Gavin Short and Sharon Halford are currently attending the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association Plenary and Small Countries Conference in Sri Lanka.

• Saturday, September 15th 2012 - 06:27 UTC

  Funds from confiscated illegal fish used to combat poachers in Southern Ocean

  

  Funds generated by the sale of fish confiscated from a vessel that had been poaching in the South Georgia and South Sandwich Island’s Fishery Zone (SGFZ) are being put to good use to fight illegal fishing elsewhere in the Southern Ocean.

• Saturday, September 15th 2012 - 05:54 UTC

  The Royal Navy attack submarine, “HMS Ambush” ready for sea trials

  

  In the next few days, the second of the Royal Navy’s Astute Class attack submarine, “HMS Ambush” will leave the BAE Systems shipyard in Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria, where she was built, and sail to Her Majesty's Naval Base Clyde in Scotland.

• Saturday, September 15th 2012 - 05:36 UTC

  Argentina pledges to increase corn exports to help ease tight global markets

  

  Argentina pledges to export an extra 2.75 million tons of corn from its 2011-12 harvest to a total of 16.45 million tons helping to ease tight international markets after this summer's drought in the US damaged crops there and fuelled fears of a food crisis.

• Saturday, September 15th 2012 - 05:29 UTC

  YPF/Chevron signed an understanding to explore for shale gas and oil in Neuquen

  

  Argentina's recently nationalized oil and gas producer YPF SA and the US Chevron Corporation have signed a memorandum of understanding to explore for unconventional energy in Vaca Muerta, in the Patagonian province of Neuquen.

• Friday, September 14th 2012 - 00:48 UTC

  Half a million dollars reward for information regarding fate of Raoul Wallenberg

  

  The International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation is increasing to 500.000 dollars the reward it is offering to any person or entity who can provide solid and provable information on the whereabouts of Wallenberg and his chauffeur, Vilmos Langfelder, Baruch Tenembaum and Eduardo Eurnekian, Founder and Chairman of the Foundation, announced last week.

• Thursday, September 13th 2012 - 18:42 UTC

  Fed announces further financial stimuli for the US economy to help employment

  

  The US central bank announced on Thursday it will resume its policy of pumping more money into the economy via so-called quantitative easing which consists of buying “additional agency mortgage-backed securities at a pace of 40 billion dollars per month”.

• Thursday, September 13th 2012 - 17:12 UTC

  Switzerland tightens taxes on wealthy foreigners living in the country

  

  Switzerland will keep its special low-tax deals for wealthy foreigners such as music and sports celebrities but increase the amount of tax they pay following a vote by parliament which faced pressure to scrap the system.

• Thursday, September 13th 2012 - 06:12 UTC

  Ecuador and UK to retake Assange case during the coming UN General Assembly

  

  Ecuador and UK will resume talks on Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks, during the coming session period of the UN General Assembly, said Ecuadorean Vice-president Lenin Moreno who anticipated a solution in accordance with “sovereignty and the law”.

• Thursday, September 13th 2012 - 06:10 UTC

  Pro-Europe parties winning in tight Dutch election

  

  Exit polls in the latest Dutch elections show Prime Minister Mark Rutte's ruling Liberal party leading by one seat. They also predict a massive loss of seats for the far-right PVV party. An exit poll by the Dutch broadcaster NOS/RTL showed the two pro-European parties, Liberal and Labour, had 41 and 40 seats respectively.