International

• Wednesday, May 30th 2012 - 04:22 UTC

  GLOBE convening first World Summit of Legislators at Rio, ahead of Earth summit

  

  How many times have government leaders pledged to reduce carbon emissions or tackle the accelerating loss of biodiversity? If statements and pledges were all that it took to fix the biggest global challenges, the world would not be faced with dangerous concentrations of greenhouse gases, shrinking rainforests and extinctions at up to 1,000 times the natural rate.

• Wednesday, May 30th 2012 - 04:06 UTC

  High wages and regulations making EU companies in China think twice

  

  One in five European companies operating in China may invest elsewhere in the future as wages are getting too high and regulations too cumbersome, according to a poll released Tuesday.

• Tuesday, May 29th 2012 - 20:07 UTC

  “Flame” the most sophisticated malware uncovered targeted Middle East and Israel

  

  A complex targeted cyber-attack that collected private data from countries such as Israel and Iran has been uncovered, researchers have said. Russian security firm Kaspersky Labs told the BBC they believed the malware, known as Flame, had been operating since August 2010.

• Tuesday, May 29th 2012 - 17:49 UTC

  German opposition wants growth targets before supporting EU new fiscal pact

  

  A top ally of Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives appealed to the opposition Social Democrats and Greens to refrain from “playing political games” and back the government to endorse Europe's new fiscal pact and permanent bailout fund.

• Tuesday, May 29th 2012 - 17:47 UTC

  Sweden’s Saab invests in Brazil’s aerospace defence industry

  

  Sweden's premier defense and security company, Saab, is strengthening its relationship with a Brazilian integrator of aero-structures. Saab, manufacturer of the Gripen jet fighter that has partnered in the past with the company Akaer, said it is now financially investing in the company.

• Tuesday, May 29th 2012 - 17:41 UTC

  Indonesia stops US beef imports because of a mad cow case in California

  

  Indonesia has stopped imports of US beef, following a case of mad cow disease that was detected in California, reports Farming News Daily. Indonesia Agriculture Minister Suswono said the government had no time frame, but said the suspension applied to all beef shipped after April 24.

• Tuesday, May 29th 2012 - 04:33 UTC

  Regional UN decolonization seminar in Quito with Syrian rapporteur

  

  The UN Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, also known as the Special Committee of 24, will hold its regional Pacific seminar on decolonization in Quito, Ecuador, from 30 May to 1 June 2012.

• Tuesday, May 29th 2012 - 04:27 UTC

  UK former union leader beats Latam candidate and is next ILO director general

  

  The United Nations International Labor Organization on Monday selected a former trade union leader, Guy Ryder of Britain, to become its new director general, a position that puts him at the forefront of an agency pushing to improve labor conditions around the world.

• Tuesday, May 29th 2012 - 04:12 UTC

  Argentine human rights lawyer to become FIFA first head of Ethics Committee

  

  FIFA, the official international governing body of football is set to appoint top human rights lawyer Luis Moreno Ocampo as the first head of the new Ethics committee’s investigation arm.

• Tuesday, May 29th 2012 - 04:02 UTC

  Spain calls on Europe for a show of force “to dissipate any doubts about the Euro”

  

  Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy called for a show of force from European authorities as his government sought ways to avoid tapping markets to fund the bailout of the nation’s third-biggest lender.