International

• Monday, April 9th 2012 - 15:50 UTC

  China’s inflation rebounds in March conditioning easier monetary policy

  

  China's inflation rebounded slightly in March after logging an extremely low growth in February, backing lingering uncertainty regarding the country's ability to contain price rises.

• Monday, April 9th 2012 - 06:17 UTC

  FT says UK trying to collect £ 45m Argentina used in the Falklands’ conflict

  

  According to a piece from the Financial Times Britain is chasing £45m of debt owed by the Argentine government that was lent to the military Junta in 1979 and used, in part, to buy weapons that were later used during the Falkland Islands in 1982.

• Monday, April 9th 2012 - 06:07 UTC

  Memorial cruise of the Titanic with 1.309 passengers sets off from Southampton

  

  Descendants of those who died in the Titanic disaster 100 years ago have set sail on a memorial cruise to the site of the wreck. The MS Balmoral left Southampton on Saturday on a 12-night cruise to commemorate the centenary of the sinking of the liner that hit an iceberg on its maiden voyage.

• Monday, April 9th 2012 - 05:26 UTC

  Sarkozy warns voters: look at Greece and Spain after seven years of Socialism

  

  Nicolas Sarkozy warned French voters Thursday they should re-elect him as president to pursue his cost-cutting plans or face the kind of debt crises that have gripped Greece and Spain.

• Friday, April 6th 2012 - 07:40 UTC

  Falkland’s war experiences comes to life in Tyneside novel

  

  A successful Northumberland author’s latest novel has a very timely subject as the UK marks the 30th anniversary of the Falklands War.

• Thursday, April 5th 2012 - 17:07 UTC

  Dragui confirms extraordinary long-term funding to financial system will continue

  

  European Central Bank President Mario Draghi dismissed a German-led push for the bank to start planning a retreat from emergency crisis-fighting, but stressed it was keeping a close eye on price pressures.

• Thursday, April 5th 2012 - 15:36 UTC

  IMF warns world recovery is very fragile; policy makers should not become complacent

  

  IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde said the world economy is still in recession and the recovery remains fragile as she warned that, although some progress has been made, the global economic situation is not ideal yet. “We should not delude ourselves into a false sense of security,” she alerted.

• Thursday, April 5th 2012 - 14:48 UTC

  Global deal and tracking system to stem illegal tobacco trade

  

  Negotiators from 135 nations sealed Wednesday a global deal to stem the illegal tobacco trade that could net governments 50 billion dollars more annually in tax revenues, the World Health Organisation said.

• Thursday, April 5th 2012 - 14:29 UTC

  Memorandum for Lady Thatcher on Chile’s support during Falklands’ conflict

  

  It is a well known and admitted fact that the Chilean regime of General Augusto Pinochet provided very useful intelligence to the British effort to recover the occupied Falkland Islands in 1982.

• Wednesday, April 4th 2012 - 23:55 UTC

  Half of Argentines believe Malvinas conflict ‘will never be solved’, shows poll

  

  Half of Argentines believe that the Falklands/Malvinas conflict over which Argentina and Britain went to war 30 years ago, will not be solved, but a clear majority have no doubts about the sovereignty issue, according to a public opinion poll released on Wednesday.