International

• Monday, June 18th 2012 - 03:24 UTC

  Brussels willing to soften austerity measures for the Greek pro-bail out government

  

  European governments signaled a willingness to relent on Greece’s austerity measures as leaders turn from an election victory by Greek bailout proponents to focus on safeguarding the other 98% of the Euro economy

• Monday, June 18th 2012 - 03:12 UTC

  “An agreement over the Falklands is a matter of time”, says world affairs analyst

  

  Analyst of the Investigation Conflicts Unit at The Hague, Ivan Briscoe said that some kind of agreement involving the Argentine claim of sovereignty of the Falkland/Malvinas Islands is only a matter of time.

• Monday, June 18th 2012 - 02:24 UTC

  Ban Ki-moon good offices on Falklands issue if “both parties are willing to engage”

  

  United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon reiterated his good offices to help resolve the Falklands/Malvinas sovereignty dispute between Argentina and the UK, but also pointed out “as long as the parties are willing to engage”.

• Monday, June 18th 2012 - 01:12 UTC

  European crisis could reduce Latin America’s growth prospects by 40%

  

  An aggravation of the European crisis could reduce growth prospects in Latin America up to 40%, said the Inter American Development bank president Luis Alberto Moreno, particularly because of the influence of European financial institutions in the influx of capital to the region.

• Monday, June 18th 2012 - 01:02 UTC

  UN calls to join ‘Save Food’, an initiative to cut down on food losses and waste

  

  The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and key partners called on companies and organizations around the world to join in SAVE FOOD, a global initiative designed to cut down on food losses and waste.

• Monday, June 18th 2012 - 00:12 UTC

  Cameron will personally present Falklands message to Kirchner

  

  By Graham Bound, London - Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez will get her wish on Monday or Tuesday, when she meets Prime Minister David Cameron in the fringes of the G20 meeting in Mexico to talk about the Falkland Islands.

• Saturday, June 16th 2012 - 05:54 UTC

  US foreign military sales already a record 50 billion dollars, up 70% from 2011

  

  US Assistant Secretary of State for Political and Military Affairs Andrew Shapiro said that 2012 is already a record-breaking year for US foreign military sales, which are government-to-government sales.

• Saturday, June 16th 2012 - 05:14 UTC

  C24 chair calls Falklands’ referendum ‘political ploy’; praises Argentine president

  

  The chair of the UN Decolonisation Committee Ecuadorian ambassador Diego Morejón Pazmiño described the UK announcement of a referendum in the Malvinas Islands as a “political ploy”, insisting that the Falkland Islanders can not appeal to the right of self determination.

• Saturday, June 16th 2012 - 03:05 UTC

  Ireland’s banking advice to Spain: “imagine the worst and double it”

  

  Ireland has this banking advice for Spain: imagine the worst and double it. Like Ireland, Spain sought a bank bailout after being felled by a real-estate crash. Now, just as the Irish did, the Spanish are awaiting the results of outside stress tests gauging the size of the hole in the banking system.

• Saturday, June 16th 2012 - 03:03 UTC

  “Who cares what an American official can think about the situation in Spain?”

  

  Economics Nobel prize (2011) Thomas Sargent admitted feeling “ashamed” when some officials from the US government make recommendations to Europe, Spain and other countries on what policies they should adopt to climb out of the current crisis.