International

• Monday, November 19th 2012 - 11:37 UTC

  Gasoline rationing extended in New York until next Friday

  

  Gasoline rationing in New York City which was scheduled to end on Monday has been extended through Friday, even as the gas station lines that prompted it have all but disappeared.

• Monday, November 19th 2012 - 11:24 UTC

  UN consensus decision confirms Spain formally abandons Gibraltar trilateral process

  

  Spain’s decision to pull out of the trilateral process was formally recorded in the consensus decision on Gibraltar adopted by the United Nations General Assembly this year.

• Monday, November 19th 2012 - 11:19 UTC

  Australia imposes a two-year ban on super-trawlers

  

  Australian Environment minister Tony Burke signed into force on Monday a two-year ban on any super trawler operating in the small pelagic fishery. The ban is based on a battery of new laws and seems directed to the arrival to Australia of the Dutch vessel Abel Tasman.

• Sunday, November 18th 2012 - 23:54 UTC

  No dispute over Falklands issues

  

  Two Members of Westminster Parliament have been visiting the Islands during this period of remembrance as guests of the Falkland Islands Government.

• Saturday, November 17th 2012 - 23:19 UTC

  UK tells Spain any solution to fishing dispute must include Gibraltar government

  

  UK has dismissed a comment by Spain’s Foreign Minister suggesting that Britain and Spain were poised to reach a bilateral solution to the fishing dispute. Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo said Spain was open to dialogue and that he and his British counterpart, William Hague, “talk a lot” about many issues, including Gibraltar

• Saturday, November 17th 2012 - 23:09 UTC

  IMF questions plan to restructure Greek debt: “pls reality, not wishful thinking”

  

  An agreement among Greece's international creditors on reducing its large debt pile should be “rooted in reality and not in wishful thinking,” the head of the International Monetary Fund said ahead of a tense meeting with European leaders.

• Saturday, November 17th 2012 - 22:53 UTC

  Mercosur condemns “disproportionate use of force” in Gaza; calls for immediate cease fire

  

  Mercosur condemned the “disproportionate use of force” in Gaza and called on Israel and Palestinians for an immediate cease fire of the conflict that has already left al least forty people killed, mostly civilians.

• Saturday, November 17th 2012 - 06:30 UTC

  Spain and Portugal call for Latam business opportunities and investment

  

  Spain and Portugal sought help from their former Latin American colonies to rescue them from economic crisis through a new wave of trade and investment across the Atlantic Ocean.

• Saturday, November 17th 2012 - 06:12 UTC

  Planning for when the 2016 airport, St Helena after closer links with Faklands

  

  A top official from St Helena will be visiting the Falkland Islands next month to explore ways that the governments of the two British Overseas Territories can collaborate and looking ahead to when the mid Atlantic volcanic island will have an international airport.

• Saturday, November 17th 2012 - 05:59 UTC

  ARA Libertad case to be discussed by Argentina and Ghana November 29/30

  

  Argentina announced on Friday that the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea proposed November 29 and 30 as the days to hold the hearings between Argentina and Ghana over the seizure of the ARA Libertad Frigate at Ghana's Tema Port.