International

• Tuesday, November 13th 2012 - 22:38 UTC

  “Only a third of countries qualified for UN Human Rights Council”, claim advocate groups

  

  Human rights groups have criticized the election by the United Nations General Assembly of several countries with questionable rights' records to the UN Human Rights Council. Of the 18 countries elected Monday to the Geneva-based body, human rights advocates say only about a third are qualified.

• Tuesday, November 13th 2012 - 21:19 UTC

  PM Cameron and Foreign Secretary Hague pay tribute to Sir Rex Hunt

  

  British Prime Minister David Cameron and Foreign Secretary William Hague paid tribute to the former governor of the Falkland Islands Sir Rex Hunt who died at the age of 86 on Sunday.

• Tuesday, November 13th 2012 - 03:58 UTC

  Spanish banks suspend evictions for next two years for the most vulnerable

  

  Spanish banks are suspending evictions for the next two years for the most vulnerable people. An estimated 350,000 families have been evicted from their homes since Spain's property market crashed in 2008.

• Tuesday, November 13th 2012 - 00:56 UTC

  US to overtake Saudis and Russia as world’s top oil producers by 2’17, says IEA

  

  The United States is forecasted to overtake Saudi Arabia and Russia as the world's top oil producer by 2017, the West's energy agency said on Monday. The International Energy Agency (IEA) said it saw a continued fall in US oil imports with North America becoming a net oil exporter by around 2030 and the United States becoming almost self-sufficient in energy by 2035.

• Tuesday, November 13th 2012 - 00:07 UTC

  Argentine deadline to Ghana for release of ARA Libertad

  

  Argentina warned on Monday that if by Tuesday Ghana does not release the retained Navy frigate ARA Libertad it will file a claim before the UN Law of the Sea International Tribunal in Germany.

• Monday, November 12th 2012 - 21:57 UTC

  Ban Ki-moon and colonialism: people should be able to decide their own future

  

  Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said UK is not violating relevant UN resolutions referred to the Falklands’ and more specifically on colonialism, he argued that a prevailing impression is that “people living under certain conditions should have a certain level of capacities so that they can decide their own future”, be it independence or some kind of government in their territories.

• Monday, November 12th 2012 - 19:00 UTC

  HMS Protector heading for Antarctica after surveying Tristan da Cunha waters

  

  The Royal Navy ice patrol ship HMS Protector on her route to the Falklands and Antarctica, has visited the remote South Atlantic island of Tristan da Cunha to conduct the first systematic survey of the British Overseas Territory since the 1970s.

• Monday, November 12th 2012 - 17:25 UTC

  Obituary Sir Rex Hunt CMG

  

  Sir Rex Hunt, who was Governor of the Falkland Islands during the 1982 Argentine invasion precipitating the Falklands War, has died aged 86, in Stockton-On-Tees, where he had lived in retirement.

• Monday, November 12th 2012 - 07:44 UTC

  Ghana will insist in relocating Argentine frigate with a new court order

  

  Ghana’s government is expected to submit a petition on Monday to cut all water, electricity and fuel supply to Argentina’s navy training ARA Libertad frigate after armed sailors prevented an operation led by local port authorities, GPHA, who wanted to relocate the ship to another berth, spokesmen of Tema Port said.

• Monday, November 12th 2012 - 07:40 UTC

  International unions’ group calls for a speedy resolution of the Argentina/Ghana impasse

  

  The Vice President of International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF), has called for a timely resolution of the stalemate leading to the seizure of the Argentina Naval frigate ARA Libertad in Ghana.