International

• Thursday, June 7th 2012 - 22:27 UTC

  Fiji anticipates support for the C24 resolution on Falklands/Malvinas

  

  Fiji will continue to be part of the consensus in support of the UN Decolonization Committee resolution regarding the Falklands/Malvinas dispute, anticipated the Pacific islands Foreign Affairs minister following a meeting with the non-resident Argentine Ambassador to Fiji, H.E. Pedro Villagra Delgado.

• Thursday, June 7th 2012 - 22:21 UTC

  New Zealanders “misinformed” about Malvinas war says Argentine ambassador

  

  New Zealanders have been misinformed about the battle for the Falkland Islands between Great Britain and Argentina in 1982, the South American country's ambassador to New Zealand has told an audience in Palmerston North.

• Thursday, June 7th 2012 - 21:26 UTC

  Duke of Cambridge Falklands’ experience earns him his SAR captain wings

  

  After sharpening his flying skills in the disputed Falkland Islands, the Duke of Cambridge has qualified as a helicopter search and rescue captain.

• Thursday, June 7th 2012 - 21:20 UTC

  UK blasts Argentina’s “domineering position” and attempt to impose a blockade on the Falklands

  

  Argentina is trying to impose an “economic blockade” on the Falkland Islands, said Foreign Office Minister Jeremy Browne who made plain clear that the people of the Falklands are free to determine their own political arrangements and were not to be part of ”some sort of trade-off” over their heads.

• Thursday, June 7th 2012 - 20:25 UTC

  “Too much financial, too little social” attention says ILO chief of the current crisis

  

  It is possible to turn the inefficient growth patterns of today’s world economy around but this requires a redefinition of priorities and the political conviction to overcome the dogmas of the past, said ILO chief Juan Somavia, in his addess to the plenary session of the International Labour Conference.

• Thursday, June 7th 2012 - 20:19 UTC

  Transparency warns about close links between business and governments leading to corruption in Europe

  

  Anti-corruption group Transparency International warned in a new report released Thursday that the close relationship between business and government has enabled corruption and undermined economic stability in Europe.

• Thursday, June 7th 2012 - 06:29 UTC

  Argentine president attendance at C24 to discuss Falklands’ case, “misfortunate” and “most unusual”

  

  The UK regretted as ‘misfortunate” and “strange” the announced attendance of Argentine president Cristina Fernandez next week to the UN Decolonisation Committee to claim sovereignty over the Falklands/Malvinas Islands.

• Thursday, June 7th 2012 - 05:34 UTC

  CFK Malvinas presentation before C24 divides Argentine opposition

  

  President Cristina Fernandez has yet to fulfil her wish to have the whole Argentine opposition represented next to her when she addresses the UN Decolonization Committee claiming sovereignty over the disputed Falklands/Malvinas Islands next week.

• Thursday, June 7th 2012 - 05:28 UTC

  In anticipation of Rio+20, Brazil creates new nature reserves and closes major land-fill

  

  Brazil announced plans to protect an additional 10 000km² of land and pledged not to let economic woes stop it from implementing other measures to protect the environment.

• Wednesday, June 6th 2012 - 21:42 UTC

  Billionaire Soros tells EU leaders they have a “three month window” to save the Euro

  

  Billionaire investor George Soros has warned European leaders they have a “three-month window” to save the Euro and insisted that the EU leaders did not understand “the nature of the crisis”.