International

Monday, August 26th 2013 - 04:10 UTC
HMS Argyll sails across the Panama Canal on the last leg of her deployment

South Atlantic patrol HMS Argyll is coming to the end of her seven month deployment and next month is expected back in Davenport. Last week the Type 23 frigate crossed the 80 kilometre Panama Caal sailing two seas in one day, after finishing an intense period of counter-narcotics operation in the Eastern Pacific.
Monday, August 26th 2013 - 03:25 UTC
Falkland's Falklands’ lawmakers to Commonwealth Parliamentary conference in South Africa

Falkland Islands lawmakers, MLA Roger Edwards and MLA Barry Elsby are travelling to South Africa to attend the 59th Commonwealth Parliamentary conference and associated events to be held between 28 August and 6 September
Monday, August 26th 2013 - 03:21 UTC
Spain conditions talks with UK to removal of cement blocks from Gibraltar bay

Spain will only discuss about fisheries with the UK after the blocks dumped into the Gibraltar bay have been removed, said foreign minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo in a Sunday interview with the right wing newspaper La Razon.
Monday, August 26th 2013 - 03:01 UTC
Argentina defiant of bonds‘case latest ruling: ‘they want to take us back to 2001’

Argentine Economy minister Hernán Lorenzino said that the New York appeals court ruling supporting Judge Thomas Griesa decision in favour of paying the hedge funds the 1.3bn dollars they are demanding, was an “attempt to take the country back to 2001”.
Monday, August 26th 2013 - 02:38 UTC
Germany top of the class in budget surplus and sustained economic growth

Official figures show Germany's budget surplus rose to 0.6% of GDP in the first half of the year, boosted by higher tax income. The government pulled in 321.4bn Euros in taxes, 3.8% more than a year ago thanks to its steady employment rate. The German Federal Statistical Office, Destatis, said the surplus was 8.5bn Euros in the period between January and June.
Monday, August 26th 2013 - 02:30 UTC
First gay couple, Sergio and Rodolfo officially married in Uruguay

The first gay couple to register to marry in Uruguay when a new equal marriage law took effect on 5 August, have married as gay rights activists celebrate in the country. Sergio Miranda and Rodrigo Borda married in Montevideo last Thursday accompanied by 30 friends and family, US Ambassador Julissa Reynoso and around a hundred members of the media.
Saturday, August 24th 2013 - 18:28 UTC
Gibraltar criticizes latest incident at artificial reef; Picardo opens window for talks

Gibraltar has strongly criticised Spanish police for sending divers to inspect an artificial reef in waters claimed by the British territory. Governor Sir Adrian Johns said the action constituted a serious violation of UK sovereignty over Gibraltar.
Friday, August 23rd 2013 - 23:22 UTC
Falklands reviewing tax returns from oil industry but confident ‘an acceptable outcome can be reached’

The Falkland Islands government is reviewing a tax return submitted by one of the oil companies currently operating off-shore the Islands and is confident a mutually acceptable outcome can be reached.
Friday, August 23rd 2013 - 23:15 UTC
“Uniquely recalcitrant debtor” Argentina loses bonds’ appeal: next step US Supreme Court

Argentina lost on Friday its appeal of a ruling that would force it to pay in full holders of 1.3 billion dollars in defaulted debt when it makes a payment to investors who took discounted restructured bonds, opening the prospect for a US Supreme Court appeal, which if it happens will push the litigation into 2014.
Friday, August 23rd 2013 - 23:12 UTC
Falklands’ oil companies banned 20 years from operating in Argentina by Cristina Fernandez

Four London AIM listed oil companies carrying out exploration work in Falkland Islands waters have been barred from operating in Argentina. The measure affects Borders & Southern Petroleum, Desire Petroleum, Argos Resources and Falkland Oil and Gas.