International

• Thursday, October 25th 2012 - 17:51 UTC

  Reflections from our visit to the Falkland Islands

  

  A group of Central American journalists recently visited the Falkland Islands for a week as guests of the Foreign Office together with Bruce Callow from the UK Costa Rica embassy. The following is a first reflection just back from the Islands in Bruce’s blog.

• Thursday, October 25th 2012 - 06:43 UTC

  NML-Capital targeting second Argentine navy vessel docked in South Africa

  

  A second Argentine navy vessel has been targeted by NML-Capital which apparently has contracted a renowned South African law office to impound the corvette ARA Espora.

• Thursday, October 25th 2012 - 06:28 UTC

  Argentine seamen are back in Buenos Aires; small group remains in Ghana

  

  After three weeks retained in Ghana, members of the crew and cadets from the Argentine Navy training vessel ARA Libertad arrived past midnight Wednesday to Ezeiza airport in Buenos Aires where relatives and media were waiting.

• Thursday, October 25th 2012 - 00:04 UTC

  Argentine lawmakers press Falklands’ issue on UK peers at Parliamentary Union

  

  Argentine lawmakers met with their UK peers and called for an end to unilateral hydrocarbons explorations in Falkland Islands waters and for an end to military exercises in the South Atlantic.

• Wednesday, October 24th 2012 - 21:25 UTC

  India becoming leading exporter of bovine meat: 1.66 million tons in 2012

  

  Indian buffalo meat exports have grown to record levels in the last two years, making India the fourth country in the world to export more than 1 million tons of bovine meat annually.

• Wednesday, October 24th 2012 - 05:41 UTC

  Spanish economy continues to contract with no short term expectations of change

  

  Spain’s economy contracted 0.4% in the third quarter and continues to face strong headwinds, the central bank said on Tuesday. Adverse financial conditions eased “somewhat” and the decline in domestic demand was 1.2%, an improvement over the 1.4% fall in the second quarter.

• Wednesday, October 24th 2012 - 05:19 UTC

  Italian seismic experts sentenced to jail for inadequate warning triggers global controversy

  

  Six scientists and a government official were sentenced to six years in prison for manslaughter by an Italian court on Monday for failing to give adequate warning of an earthquake that killed more than 300 people in L'Aquila in 2009.

• Wednesday, October 24th 2012 - 05:09 UTC

  Airlines must pay compensation to delayed passengers says EU Court of Justice

  

  Airlines must pay compensation to passengers who are delayed by three hours or more, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled. The judgement upholds the court's 2009 ruling, which was challenged by a group of airlines including BA and Easyjet.

• Tuesday, October 23rd 2012 - 22:29 UTC

  Penguins, whales and Antarctic species have found a powerful friend: DiCaprio

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio urged a high-level Antarctic conservation meeting in Australia on Tuesday to approve a sweeping Southern Ocean marine sanctuary to protect thousands of polar species.

• Tuesday, October 23rd 2012 - 21:20 UTC

  Gibraltar, a ‘smokescreen’ to distract Spain’s austerity cuts claims political party

  

  The Spanish leftwing political party Izquierda Unida [IU] has tabled questions in Spain’s parliament asking why Gibraltar continues to be a priority matter for the central government in Madrid.