International

• Tuesday, January 30th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Money reward for Japan's whaling fleet position

  

  An anti-whaling group patrolling the Ross Sea off Antarctica is offering a 25.000 US dollars reward to any person or group that can provide coordinates of the Japanese whaling fleet operating in the area.

• Tuesday, January 30th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Last minute agreement averts British Airways full strike

  

  British Airways averted a strike by flight attendants, reaching agreement on pay and sick leave hours before the two-day walkout was due to start Wednesday. The deal was finally nailed down after more than 120 hours of talks between the company and the Transport and General Workers' Union.

• Monday, January 29th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  China begins filling its strategic oil reserves

  

  China's first strategic oil reserve base station has begun to be filled in Ningbo, Zhejiang province, according to reports from the country's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC). This is the latest step in China's efforts to ensure a strategic oil reserve.

• Monday, January 29th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Poll reveals that Europeans are not happy with the Euro

  

  A majority of people in France, Germany, Spain and Italy feel the euro has hurt their economies, according to a poll published Monday in the Financial Times. The FT-Harris survey found more than half of citizens questioned in the big euro zone countries said they preferred their former currency.

• Monday, January 29th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  UN marks Holocaust Day as reminder for future genocides

  

  United Nations marked Monday the annual International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust with an urgent appeal that the remembrance of the millions of Jews and others murdered by the Nazis serve to prevent new massacres, a rebuff for those who deny that the tragedy ever occurred, and moving testimony from survivors.

• Monday, January 29th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Bush to request extension of fast-track trade legislation

  

  The White House confirmed Monday it will request Congress to renew the key trade negotiating authority that expires next July and said time was running short for countries to reach a new global trade deal.

• Sunday, January 28th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  World leaders committed to resume Doha trade talks

  

  Leaders from the world's main trading nations supported a “quick resumption” of the frozen Doha Round global trade talks after meeting in the framework of the World Economic Forum that ended this weekend in Davos, Switzerland.

• Sunday, January 28th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  President Bush's support plummets to record low

  

  United States president George Bush's popularity keeps plummeting following last week's state of the Union address, according to a survey published by Newsweek magazine.

• Saturday, January 27th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  UN assembly condemns Holocaust denial; Iran disassociates

  

  The United Nations General Assembly on Friday condemned without reservation any denial of the Holocaust, with only Iran publicly disassociating itself from the consensus resolution which was immediately hailed by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

• Thursday, January 25th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Global unemployment remains at historic high, says UN

  

  The number of people unemployed worldwide remained at an historical high of nearly 200 million in 2006 despite strong global economic growth, only modest gains were made in lifting some of the 1.37 billion working poor living on less than 2 US dollars per day out of poverty, and the pattern looks set to continue this year, according to a United Nations report released Thursday.