International

• Monday, June 4th 2012 - 07:09 UTC

  Top artists concert for Diamond Jubilee and 4.000 beacons through out the world

  

  Queen' Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee will be marked with a star-studded concert in front of Buckingham Palace later on Monday. Sir Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder and Sir Elton John are among the artists, and Madness will perform on the roof.

• Monday, June 4th 2012 - 06:27 UTC

  UAE flag carrier unveiled plans to fly to Brazil in January 2013

  

  Etihad Airways, United Arab Emirates flag carrier has unveiled plans to fly to Brazil, the airline’s first South American destination. The daily Sao Paulo flights, which are expected to start in June 2013, will be the first direct air link between Abu Dhabi and any South American country.

• Monday, June 4th 2012 - 03:49 UTC

  Merkel signals to the opposition she is ready to accept measures to boost growth

  

  Chancellor Angela Merkel praised higher German wage deals and signalled flexibility on a financial transaction tax, in a sign she is open to new measures to boost growth in Europe.

• Monday, June 4th 2012 - 03:40 UTC

  Berlin conditions Euro area bonds to an EU fiscal authority to control budgets

  

  When former European Central Bank Jean-Claude Trichet called last June for the creation of a European finance ministry with power over national budgets the idea seemed fanciful, a distant dream that would take years or even decades to realize, if it ever came to be.

• Monday, June 4th 2012 - 03:08 UTC

  “Malvinas for Argentina and sea outlet for Bolivia” demands Morales at OAS meeting

  

  As anticipated in the opening speech of the 42 OAS General Assembly hosted by landlocked Bolivia, President Evo Morales put on the discussion table his country’ aspiration for an outlet to the Pacific Ocean linking it to Argentina’s sovereignty dispute with the UK over the Falklands/Malvinas Islands.

• Saturday, June 2nd 2012 - 04:50 UTC

  Falklands’ new generation will attend the C24 meeting in New York

  

  Two young Islanders will accompany Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly Members to a special session of the United Nations Special Committee on Decolonisation (C24) this month in New York.

• Saturday, June 2nd 2012 - 04:39 UTC

  “We need political will on both sides” to reach agreement on Falklands/Malvinas says Argüello

  

  By Rebecca Kendall (*) - It has been 30 years since the war over the Falkland/Malvinas Islands ended, but the question of sovereignty in the Islands, located 248 miles off the coast of Argentina, is still very much fresh in the minds of those closest to the issue, including Argentina’s Ambassador to the United States Jorge Argüello.

• Saturday, June 2nd 2012 - 04:07 UTC

  World-wide celebrations as Overseas Territories honour Queen’s Diamond Jubilee

  

  Like many other countries around the world, the UK's Overseas Territories will be marking The Queen's Diamond Jubilee by lighting Beacons. They will join the Beacon lighting across the UK, continuing a tradition, first started to communicate but now carried out as a symbol of unity.

• Saturday, June 2nd 2012 - 03:22 UTC

  Argentine experts on alert in Athens to help with bail-out if Greece exits the Euro

  

  American International Group Inc (AIG) has assigned staff from Argentina to advise their counterparts in Athens as the bailed-out insurer prepares for a possible Greek exit from the Euro.

• Saturday, June 2nd 2012 - 03:01 UTC

  Black Friday for markets; US dismal jobs report and European crisis

  

  US stocks fell more than 2% on Friday, dragging the Dow Jones into negative territory for the year after a dismal US jobs report added to fears that Europe's spiralling debt crisis was dragging down the world economy.