International

Tuesday, June 12th 2012 - 19:42 UTC
The Pacific Alliance, yet another bloc in Latin America

The newly-formed Pacific Alliance bloc seems more like a political club to counterbalance the Atlantic-facing, Brazil-led Mercosur group. However, the bloc accounts for 30% of India’s trade with Latin America. Can India engage the group so it is not left out from their Asia focus?
Tuesday, June 12th 2012 - 09:41 UTC
Young Falkland Islanders want to present strong message to Cristina Fernandez

A group of young Falkland Islanders hope to present Argentine President Cristina Fernandez with a firm message at the UN in New York that they want to remain British subjects and continue their current way of life.
Tuesday, June 12th 2012 - 09:25 UTC
Argentina blasts UK arrogance and “end of war celebration” in Falklands

Argentine Defence Minister Arturo Puricelli said on Monday that the United Kingdom maintains its “arrogance and haughtiness” over the Malvinas sovereignty issue as the 30th anniversary of the end of the war approaches.
Tuesday, June 12th 2012 - 09:09 UTC
C24 chair says Falklands issue is over sovereignty, not exactly decolonization

The UN Special Committee on Decolonisation launched on Monday a new round of sessions with much attention focused on the Falklands/Malvinas dispute since Argentine president Cristina Fernandez next Thursday will become the first head of state to address the C24.
Tuesday, June 12th 2012 - 09:04 UTC
UK reply to Argentina on Falklands/Buenos Aires flights and fisheries next week

Foreign Office minister for Latin American affairs Jeremy Browne anticipated that next week there will be a “substantial reply” to Argentina’s proposal for three monthly flights between Buenos Aires and the Falklands and the resumption of negotiations over fisheries conservation in the South Atlantic, but in noy way linked to any sovereignty discussions.
Monday, June 11th 2012 - 20:23 UTC
Earl of Wessex and wife begin Diamond Jubilee visit to Gibraltar

On Monday 11th June 2012 Her Majesty the Queen's youngest son, Edward, The Earl of Wessex, accompanied by his wife Sophie, the Countess of Wessex arrived on board the British Airways scheduled flight at 11.50 at Gibraltar International Airport.
Monday, June 11th 2012 - 20:09 UTC
Stiglitz negative about Spanish bail-out, calls it “voodoo economics”

The plan to lend money to Spain to heal some of its banks may not work because the government and the country's lenders will in effect be propping each other up, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz said.
Monday, June 11th 2012 - 19:44 UTC
China cuts retail gasoline prices 5.5% to reflect cheaper oil and boost the economy

China, the world's second-biggest oil user, will reduce gasoline and diesel prices by the most since 2008 after global crude costs slumped. State-controlled retail gasoline prices will fall by 530 Yuan (83 dollars) a metric ton and diesel will be cut by 510 Yuan, the National Development and Reform Commission, NDRC, the nation's top economic planner, said on its website last week.
Monday, June 11th 2012 - 19:23 UTC
Extended blooming phytoplankton discovered under thinning Arctic ice cap

Scientists have made a biological discovery in Arctic Ocean waters as dramatic and unexpected as finding a rainforest in the middle of a desert. A NASA-sponsored expedition punched through three-foot thick sea ice to find waters richer in microscopic marine plants, essential to all sea life, than any other ocean region on Earth.
Monday, June 11th 2012 - 18:54 UTC
Principles of freedom and self determination for the Falklands remain as vital now as in 1982

Foreign Minister Jeremy Browne begins this Monday a four day visit to the Falkland Islands, the thirtieth anniversary of the conclusion of the South Atlantic conflict and in a brief message pointed out that thirty years after the conflict the Falklands’ people are being forced to defend themselves once more this time from “the policies of coercion and intimidation” by the current Argentine government.