International

• Tuesday, June 25th 2013 - 19:49 UTC

  Chinese stocks tumble as Beijing announces an end to the era of cheap credit

  

  Chinese stocks touched a four-and-a-half-year low on Tuesday amid persistent concerns over the government's credit-tightening policy. The Shanghai Composite SSE index fell as much as 5.8% at one point, before a late rally meant it ended down 0.3%.

• Tuesday, June 25th 2013 - 18:39 UTC

  Repsol to consider YPF compensation offer, including stake in shale deposits

  

  Spanish oil corporation Repsol's board is scheduled to consider on Wednesday a non-cash compensation offer from Argentina over the seizure of its majority stake in energy firm YPF, according to the Spanish government news agency EFE.

• Tuesday, June 25th 2013 - 18:20 UTC

  Foreign Office protests to Spain chase and shooting incident in Gibraltar waters

  

  British Minister for Europe David Lidington strongly protested on Tuesday to Spanish Minister, Íñigo Mendez de Vigo, following an incident in British Gibraltar territorial waters, when allegedly shots were fired.

• Tuesday, June 25th 2013 - 17:08 UTC

  Argentine indigenous people ask Francis to intercede before Cristina Fernandez

  

  Leaders of an Argentine indigenous community together with Nobel Peace Prize Adolfo Perez Esquivel met on Monday with Pope Francis and requested he intercedes before Argentine president Cristina Fernandez so that she receives a delegation from the Qom community.

• Tuesday, June 25th 2013 - 16:52 UTC

  Colombia establishes closer information security links with NATO

  

  Colombia and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization signed an agreement on information security that will allow exploring future cooperation and consultation in areas of common interest. The agreement was signed on Tuesday in Brussels by NATO Secretary General Ambassador Alexander Vershbow and the Defense Minister of Colombia, Juan Carlos Pinzón Bueno.

• Tuesday, June 25th 2013 - 16:43 UTC

  Ghana Supreme Court rules that seizure of ARA Libertad was “fundamentally and patently wrong”

  

  Ghana's Supreme Court has ruled that the seizure of an Argentine warship that led to a weeks-long ordeal last year was “fundamentally and patently wrong,” a copy of the decision released last Friday said.

• Tuesday, June 25th 2013 - 06:14 UTC

  Francis sends strong message to the Curia and the Vatican high life

  

  A last-minute no-show by Pope Francis at a concert where he was to have been the guest of honor has sent another clear signal that he is going to do things his way and does not like the Vatican high life.

• Tuesday, June 25th 2013 - 06:10 UTC

  Falklands: memories needed for a thesis on the SS Great Britain, Bristol’s main heritage attraction

  

  PHD student James Muirhead, based in Bristol’s Brunel Institute, is preparing for a trip to the Falkland Islands where he hopes to collect memories of the SS Great Britain which was abandoned there at Sparrow Cove in 1937.

• Tuesday, June 25th 2013 - 05:56 UTC

  Deadly swine virus spreading among hog farms in the US Mid west

  

  A swine virus deadly to young pigs, one never before seen in North America, is spreading rapidly across the United States and proving harder to control than previously believed.

• Tuesday, June 25th 2013 - 05:49 UTC

  US OK’s new non-eggs flu vaccine for adults with severe allergies

  

  People with serious egg allergies may no longer have to worry about flu shots. A United States government advisory panel said a new vaccine that's made without eggs is an option for adults with severe allergies. Current flu shots are made from viruses grown in eggs and could trigger allergic reactions in some cases.