International

• Tuesday, February 21st 2012 - 22:41 UTC

  Timerman Falklands ‘militarization claim’ with little echo at UN admits Argentine press

  

  The Argentine minister Hector Timerman presentation before the United Nations claiming the “militarization of the South Atlantic” from the Falklands by the UK does not seem to be having the expected echo according to press reports from Buenos Aires, based on correspondents’ contributions from New York.

• Tuesday, February 21st 2012 - 21:14 UTC

  Suspending Lan flight can only be seen as an “economic blockade” against the people of the Falklands

  

  British ambassador in Chile Jon Benjamin said that if Lan flights to the Falkland Islands from Chile are suspended this can only be interpreted as an “economic blockade” of the Islands and strongly suggested that the administration of Argentine President Cristina Fernandez is trumpeting the Malvinas card pushed by “domestic interests”.

• Tuesday, February 21st 2012 - 21:07 UTC

  Argentina/UK 2011 bilateral trade totalled 1.4bn dollars; could suffer ‘Malvinas’ dispute impact

  

  A private Argentine report warns that the current diplomatic dispute over the Falklands/Malvinas could have an impact on bilateral trade with the UK which last year totalled over 1.4 billion dollars with a 150 million surplus for Buenos Aires.

• Tuesday, February 21st 2012 - 20:56 UTC

  UK celebrates Captain Scott’s Antarctic achievements and legacy to peace and science

  

  Foreign Office Minister Henry Bellingham celebrated the Captain Scott expedition's achievements and legacy of peace and science at the Foreign Office on 20 February.

• Tuesday, February 21st 2012 - 20:46 UTC

  Falklands’ Desire Petroleum participating at North American Prospect Expo in Houston

  

  Falklands’ oil explorer Desire Petroleum Plc (AIM:DES) will be making presentations this week at the North American Prospect Expo (NAPE) in Houston.

• Tuesday, February 21st 2012 - 05:16 UTC

  Dutch scientists planning first lab-grown hamburger later this year

  

  Dutch scientists have used stem cells to create strips of muscle tissue with the aim of producing the first lab-grown hamburger later this year. The aim of the research is to develop a more efficient way of producing meat than rearing animals.

• Tuesday, February 21st 2012 - 04:28 UTC

  UK Secretary discusses Falklands’ defence in Parliament

  

  UK Defence Secretary Philip Hammond said on Monday that the British military presence in the Falklands has not increased recently since there was no recorded change to Argentine force levels, and there was no “current or credible” threat.

• Tuesday, February 21st 2012 - 04:14 UTC

  Protestant parson and human rights activist next German president

  

  German Chancellor Angela Merkel bowed to pressure on Sunday and agreed to back popular opposition candidate Joachim Gauck to become president, averting a political fight that might have distracted her government from solving the euro zone crisis.

• Saturday, February 18th 2012 - 06:25 UTC

  Zurich and Tokyo, and Geneva and Osaka, the world’s most expensive cities

  

  The strong Swiss franc has seen Zurich top Tokyo as the world's most expensive city in a survey out this week. Zurich, ranked fourth last year, took the unenviable crown in the 2012 Worldwide Cost of Living Survey by the Economist Intelligence Unit.

• Saturday, February 18th 2012 - 01:52 UTC

  “Argentina is not a country you’d want to be associated with”, says Falklands’ MLA

  

  Falkland Islands lawmaker Mike Summers accused Argentina of acting as a “schoolyard bully” trying to take sweets from others and described as intolerable that a country of that size should be trying to bully a country of 3.000 people into submission. “It’s a country you’d not want to be associated with”.