International

• Thursday, February 28th 2013 - 03:41 UTC

  Cameron accuses Labour candidate of supporting Argentina during the Falklands’ war

  

  Ahead of a much disputed by election at Eastleigh, Hampshire, Prime Minister David Cameron had a chance to make an impression during the PM questions on Wednesday accusing Labour hopeful John O’Farrell of supporting terrorism and Argentina because he wanted Great Britain to lose the Falklands’ war.

• Thursday, February 28th 2013 - 01:39 UTC

  UK economy expands 0.2% in 2012, but growth remains sluggish

  

  The UK economy grew by more than previously thought in 2012, official figures have shown. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) revised its growth estimate for the year up from no growth to 0.2%. But the figure for the last three months of the year was left unchanged at a quarterly contraction of 0.3%.

• Thursday, February 28th 2013 - 01:27 UTC

  Shell suspends offshore drilling program in the Arctic for the rest of 2013

  

  Royal Dutch Shell has said that it will suspend its offshore drilling program in the Arctic for the rest of 2013 in order to give time to ensure safety. The decision to pause drilling for oil in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas off Alaska was widely expected, following a catalogue of problems last year.

• Wednesday, February 27th 2013 - 21:00 UTC

  A turning event 60 years ago: ‘German economic miracle’ or debt condolence

  

  Highly indebted, without access to capital, viewed suspiciously by creditors, that was Germany in 1953. Half the country's debts were canceled 60 years ago this week, the foundation of the “economic miracle.”

• Wednesday, February 27th 2013 - 20:14 UTC

  Cameron, ‘the most robust PM in the Falklands’ issue in the last 30 years’, says Professor Dodds

  

  Britain went to war over the Falkland Islands over thirty years ago when the Argentine military invaded the Islands, but the issue of sovereignty disputed by Argentina has never really gone away. Germany’s Deutsche Welle looks at the current UK government's policy towards the Falklands and the coming referendum, in an interview with Klaus Dodds, Professor of Geopolitics at Royal Holloway, University of London.

• Wednesday, February 27th 2013 - 06:53 UTC

  Argentina/Iran accord could just make it in Wednesday’s vote in the Lower House

  

  The bilateral memorandum of understanding, MOU, between Argentina and Iran to investigate the 1994 AMIA bombing was cleared for debate by the Lower House committees on Tuesday and will be discussed on Wednesday at the floor. Foreign Minister Hector Timerman clashed with opposition lawmakers during his briefing over the case.

• Wednesday, February 27th 2013 - 05:44 UTC

  Fisheries minister says Japan will never stop hunting whales “it’s part of our culture”

  

  Japan's fisheries minister said Tuesday his country will never stop hunting whales, despite fierce criticism from other nations and violent clashes at sea with militant conservationists.

• Wednesday, February 27th 2013 - 05:30 UTC

  Colombian astronomers trace the origin of the meteor that crashed in Russia

  

  Astronomers from Colombia have traced the origin of a meteor that injured about 1,000 people after breaking up over central Russia earlier this month.Using amateur video footage, they were able to plot the meteor's trajectory through Earth's atmosphere and then reconstruct its orbit around the Sun.

• Wednesday, February 27th 2013 - 05:18 UTC

  OAS assembly in Guatemala will discuss “alternative strategies for combating drugs”

  

  In an advance of the coming 43rd OAS General Assembly to be held in Antigua, Guatemala next June the country’s Foreign Affairs minister Luis Fernando Carrera Castro presented before the OAS Permanent Council an issue that is gaining support in the continent, “Alternative Strategies for Combating Drugs”.

• Wednesday, February 27th 2013 - 04:55 UTC

  Major global effort involving Interpol launched to eliminate IUU fishing

  

  Interpol Environmental Crime Program, with support from the Pew Charitable Trusts, the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, this week announced the beginning of a massive global movement -- Project SCALE -- to cull illegal fishing and associated crimes.