International

• Friday, July 20th 2012 - 08:21 UTC

  Argentina blasts WTO for its biased and tendentious reports on world trade

  

  The Argentine government, together with Brazil, India and South Africa questioned the inclination, almost bias, of some trade measures elaborated by the World Trade Organization Director General.

• Friday, July 20th 2012 - 07:59 UTC

  US solar companies can compete with China with a bit of innovation

  

  The US solar industry is undergoing some serious growing pains, with bankruptcies and mergers a necessary part of that process; meanwhile, competition from Chinese solar panels has many believing that American solar simply cannot compete. Not so.

• Friday, July 20th 2012 - 07:43 UTC

  New Yahoo CEO compensation package could reach 70 million in five years

  

  New Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer's compensation package could total more than 70 million dollars in salary, bonuses, restricted stock and stock options over five years, according to a regulatory filing made by the company Thursday.

• Thursday, July 19th 2012 - 20:56 UTC

  Odyssey recovers 48 tons of silver from WW2 British ship torpedoed off Ireland

  

  Odyssey Marine Exploration Inc, a salvage specialist famous for finding the 500 million dollars Black Swan shipwreck off Portugal in 2007, said it had recovered 48 tons of silver from a British merchant ship that was torpedoed off the coast of Ireland 70 years ago.

• Thursday, July 19th 2012 - 18:50 UTC

  China property prices rise slightly in June as Beijing tries to boost growth

  

  Property prices in 70 Chinese cities rose slightly in June, compared to May, after eight months of decline. Home prices rose 0.3% in Beijing and 0.2% in Shanghai compared to the previous month, official data showed.

• Thursday, July 19th 2012 - 18:45 UTC

  Spanish banks have 155.8bn Euros in ‘doubtful loans’, the highest since 1994

  

  Spain's banks had 155.84bn Euros of loans on their books in May that are at risk of not being repaid, the highest since 1994.

• Thursday, July 19th 2012 - 18:38 UTC

  EU, US and Japan battle with China at WTO over rare earth minerals

  

  European Union, the United States and Japan on Wednesday requested a dispute settlement panel at the World Trade Organization (WTO) after failing to resolve a battle over China's export restrictions on rare earth minerals.

• Thursday, July 19th 2012 - 18:14 UTC

  Police and Civil Guard members join massive spontaneous protests in Spain

  

  The protest movement against the conservative Spanish government's latest austerity measures swelled on Thursday as public sector workers stepped up demonstrations in Madrid and around the country after more than a week of spontaneous action.

• Thursday, July 19th 2012 - 08:04 UTC

  Israel links attack in Bulgaria to ‘Iranian terror’ and AMIA anniversary in Buenos Aires

  

  Six people were killed in a bomb attack on a bus carrying Israeli tourists at a Bulgarian airport on Wednesday and Israel accused Tehran of carrying out the attack, promising a strong response to “Iranian terror”.

• Thursday, July 19th 2012 - 07:46 UTC

  Argentine Jewish community recalls bombing that killed 85 in Buenos Aires

  

  During the ceremony commemorating the 18th anniversary of the bombing at the AMIA Argentine Jewish centre in Buenos Aires, the entity’s president Guillermo Borger restated the claim for justice for the victims of the 1994 terrorist attack.