International

• Wednesday, May 2nd 2012 - 04:58 UTC

  Argentina UN Security Council non permanent member starting January 2013

  

  Argentina received support across Latin America and the Caribbean to become the non-permanent representative for the region at the UN Security Summit for the 2013-2014 period the Foreign Ministry informed on Tuesday.

• Tuesday, May 1st 2012 - 08:53 UTC

  The Titanic II will mark the entrance of China to the cruise-ship industry

  

  Australian mining billionaire Clive Palmer plans to build a 21st-century replica of the Titanic and sail it from England to New York accompanied by the Chinese navy by the end of 2016.

• Tuesday, May 1st 2012 - 00:37 UTC

  Argentina looking to absorb the million tons of bio-diesel Spain no longer will import

  

  Almost a million tons of bio-diesel which was exported to Spain will now have to be absorbed by Argentina’s domestic market following on Madrid’s decision to cut all imports because of the seizure of oil corporation YPF from Repsol by the administration of President Cristina Fernandez.

• Tuesday, May 1st 2012 - 00:14 UTC

  Falklands fishing industry participates of Europe’s leading seafood Show

  

  Representatives from the Falkland Islands’ fishing industry travelled to Belgium last week to attend the Brussels Seafood Show.

• Monday, April 30th 2012 - 09:17 UTC

  Hollande anticipates victory over Sarkozy-Merkel and their strict austerity plan

  

  Socialist candidate Francois Hollande has claimed his campaign for the French presidency has forced German chancellor Angela Merkel to shift her thinking and accept the need for new measures to boost economic growth.

• Monday, April 30th 2012 - 07:15 UTC

  Japanese deep-sea drilling vessel sets new record at 7.740 metres

  

  Japanese maritime research agency announced that its deep-sea scientific drilling vessel has reached a point at 7,740 meters below the ocean surface, setting the world's record for such drilling.

• Monday, April 30th 2012 - 07:12 UTC

  India to complain Argentine trade restrictions, but ‘bilaterally’

  

  India has decided to raise its concerns over Argentina's recent import restrictions bilaterally, instead of joining the US and European Union who have taken the country to the World Trade Organization, reports the Economic Times from India.

• Monday, April 30th 2012 - 04:11 UTC

  New YPF management says gas supply is guaranteed, in spite of Repsol

  

  The current managers of YPF accused Spain’s Repsol of deliberately delaying or ignoring contracts to supply Argentina with liquid natural gas, following the seizure of a majority stake in the company belonging to the Spanish corporation.

• Saturday, April 28th 2012 - 06:05 UTC

  Argentine imports’ policy again accused of protectionism at a WTO committee

  

  Argentina was accused once more of “protectionism” at the meeting of the Imports License Committee of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in what can lead to a trade dispute with forty countries.

• Saturday, April 28th 2012 - 06:01 UTC

  Spain faces a “crisis of huge proportion” with “terrible figures”

  

  Spain's sickly economy faces a “crisis of huge proportions” said Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo as unemployment hit its highest level in two decades and Standard and Poor's weighed in with a two-notch downgrade of the government's debt.