International

• Thursday, July 19th 2012 - 20:56 UTC

  Odyssey recovers 48 tons of silver from WW2 British ship torpedoed off Ireland

  

  Odyssey Marine Exploration Inc, a salvage specialist famous for finding the 500 million dollars Black Swan shipwreck off Portugal in 2007, said it had recovered 48 tons of silver from a British merchant ship that was torpedoed off the coast of Ireland 70 years ago.

• Thursday, July 19th 2012 - 18:50 UTC

  China property prices rise slightly in June as Beijing tries to boost growth

  

  Property prices in 70 Chinese cities rose slightly in June, compared to May, after eight months of decline. Home prices rose 0.3% in Beijing and 0.2% in Shanghai compared to the previous month, official data showed.

• Thursday, July 19th 2012 - 18:45 UTC

  Spanish banks have 155.8bn Euros in ‘doubtful loans’, the highest since 1994

  

  Spain's banks had 155.84bn Euros of loans on their books in May that are at risk of not being repaid, the highest since 1994.

• Thursday, July 19th 2012 - 18:38 UTC

  EU, US and Japan battle with China at WTO over rare earth minerals

  

  European Union, the United States and Japan on Wednesday requested a dispute settlement panel at the World Trade Organization (WTO) after failing to resolve a battle over China's export restrictions on rare earth minerals.

• Thursday, July 19th 2012 - 18:14 UTC

  Police and Civil Guard members join massive spontaneous protests in Spain

  

  The protest movement against the conservative Spanish government's latest austerity measures swelled on Thursday as public sector workers stepped up demonstrations in Madrid and around the country after more than a week of spontaneous action.

• Thursday, July 19th 2012 - 08:04 UTC

  Israel links attack in Bulgaria to ‘Iranian terror’ and AMIA anniversary in Buenos Aires

  

  Six people were killed in a bomb attack on a bus carrying Israeli tourists at a Bulgarian airport on Wednesday and Israel accused Tehran of carrying out the attack, promising a strong response to “Iranian terror”.

• Thursday, July 19th 2012 - 07:46 UTC

  Argentine Jewish community recalls bombing that killed 85 in Buenos Aires

  

  During the ceremony commemorating the 18th anniversary of the bombing at the AMIA Argentine Jewish centre in Buenos Aires, the entity’s president Guillermo Borger restated the claim for justice for the victims of the 1994 terrorist attack.

• Thursday, July 19th 2012 - 07:34 UTC

  World Bank warns that Euro debt crisis will have an impact on most regions

  

  World Bank President Jim Yong Kim on Wednesday warned that most regions of the world will be hurt by the debt crisis enveloping the Euro zone and said it was vital to protect the strong economic gains of the past decade in the developing world.

• Thursday, July 19th 2012 - 07:12 UTC

  Vatican bank fails test on preventing financial crime

  

  The Vatican bank or Institute for Works of Religion, IOR, needs more reform in order to show it is effective at preventing financial crime, a report by a European banking watchdog has said.

• Thursday, July 19th 2012 - 07:07 UTC

  EU/Mercosur trade talks suspended until after Paraguayan elections of April 2013

  

  The removal of Fernando Lugo as president of Paraguay interrupted European Union/Mercosur discussions, which could resume following the April 2013 presidential elections said on Wednesday the European Parliament mission visiting Asunción.