International

• Sunday, March 25th 2012 - 10:17 UTC

  Expedition will try to recreate 1916 Shackleton epic in replica of the James Caird

  

  Two Royal Navy servicemen, Warrant Officer Barry 'Baz' Gray of the Royal Marines and Royal Naval Petty Officer Seb Coulthard will form part of a crew of Antarctic adventurers recreating Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1916 epic and extraordinary double mission.

• Sunday, March 25th 2012 - 08:56 UTC

  Brazil has a new representative at FIFA executive committee

  

  The president of Brazil's biggest and most influential state soccer organization will replace Ricardo Teixeira as Brazil's representative on FIFA executive committee, South America's football confederation has announced.

• Sunday, March 25th 2012 - 08:48 UTC

  Gibraltar and Spain in direct discussions to solve fishing controversy

  

  The British Government is understood to be supporting a local Gibraltar–Campo (Spain) fishermen resolution to the recent spate of exchanges over fishing rights in British Gibraltar territorial Waters.

• Sunday, March 25th 2012 - 08:11 UTC

  UK media and opposition claim spending on Falklands’ defense is to fall

  

  The amount spent to protect the Falkland Islands is to fall according to reports in the British media however the Ministry of Defense attributes the changes to ‘accounting policy’ and insists it has the capacity to repel any Argentine aggression of the Islands.

• Saturday, March 24th 2012 - 08:38 UTC

  Argentina declassifies scathing review of blunders committed during Malvinas war

  

  President Cristina Fernandez has finally declassified a scathing review of the mistakes made by Argentina's military junta in going to war with Britain in 1982 trying to recover the Falkland Islands.

• Saturday, March 24th 2012 - 08:35 UTC

  Chinese manufacturing slumps for fifth month; Euro zone shows signs of recession

  

  Chinese manufacturing slumped for a fifth month in March and the Euro zone economy is showing new signs of wilting, according to surveys revealed this week that pointed to weakening global demand.

• Friday, March 23rd 2012 - 23:22 UTC

  US nominates public health expert of South Korean origin for World Bank top job

  

  The United States has nominated a public health expert of South Korean origin as its candidate for the World Bank presidency, a job emerging market economies are contesting for the first time.

• Friday, March 23rd 2012 - 02:18 UTC

  Canada in exploratory talks with Mercosur for a trade agreement

  

  Canadian Minister of International Trade Ed Fast has concluded a two-day trade visit to Argentina, to promote the conclusion of exploratory talks towards a possible free trade agreement (FTA) with the Mercosur trade bloc.

• Thursday, March 22nd 2012 - 22:10 UTC

  Argentina warns UK and US market regulators about ‘illicit’ oil activities in the Falklands

  

  Argentina has asked British and US market regulators to probe whether oil companies that are involved in hydrocarbons exploration off the disputed Falklands/Malvinas Islands have told investors about the risks of their “illicit” drilling, the Argentine Foreign Ministry reported.

• Thursday, March 22nd 2012 - 21:48 UTC

  World health organization supports Australia in its clash with the tobacco industry

  

  The World Health Organization, WHO, Director-General Margaret Chan urged the world to “stand shoulder to shoulder” against the tobacco industry’s attempts to overturn Australia’s new path breaking tobacco control law.