International

• Wednesday, November 2nd 2011 - 04:48 UTC

  Canada freezes contributions to UNESCO, following vote on Palestine

  

  Canada will not contribute more to UNESCO to make up for a shortfall after the US cut its funding over the Palestinians joining the UN cultural body, Foreign Minister John Baird said Tuesday.

• Wednesday, November 2nd 2011 - 04:27 UTC

  Canada fears the virulent strain of ISA could be spreading to wild salmon

  

  Wild-salmon advocates in Canada fear that tests showing a serious virus in one Fraser River coho and two wild sockeye salmon mean the European strain of infectious salmon anaemia (ISA) could be spreading through British Columbia's wild-salmon runs.

• Wednesday, November 2nd 2011 - 04:00 UTC

  Overstretched Royal Navy resources trigger controversy on UK’s defense

  

  The UK has been without a single warship allocated to defending its shores for a month because of defense cuts and operations in Libya, the Ministry of Defense has confirmed.

• Tuesday, November 1st 2011 - 20:52 UTC

  Merkel and Sarkozy determined to implement EU bailout plan for Greece

  

  Germany's Angela Merkel and France's Nicolas Sarkozy are “determined” to implement the EU bailout plan for Greece. That was the outcome of an emergency phone call between the two chiefs of state ahead of a G20 summit Wednesday.

• Tuesday, November 1st 2011 - 20:30 UTC

  Don’t forget poor nations, victims of Euro crisis, World Bank tells G20

  

  Development banks could provide up to 200 billion dollars in financing to help poor nations deal with shockwaves caused by the European sovereign debt crisis, World Bank President Robert Zoellick said on Tuesday.

• Tuesday, November 1st 2011 - 05:58 UTC

  ILO warns G20: risks of ‘social unrest’ in 45 countries because of lack of jobs

  

  The global economy is on the verge of a new and deeper jobs recession that may ignite social unrest, the International Labour Organization (ILO) has warned. It will take at least five years for employment in advanced economies to return to pre-crisis levels, it said.

• Tuesday, November 1st 2011 - 05:28 UTC

  Japan intervenes to lower the Yen after reaching a record high 75 to the US dollar

  

  Japan sold the Yen for the second time in less than three months after it hit another record high against the dollar Monday, saying it intervened to counter excessive speculation that was hurting the world's No. 3 economy.

• Tuesday, November 1st 2011 - 05:10 UTC

  The Euro crisis plays in favour of advancing EU/Mercosur trade negotiations

  

  The worsening of the world crisis is a factor that plays in favour of advancing negotiations for the European Union and Mercosur cooperation agreement and strategic association, said Socialist Euro Deputy Luis Yañez from Spain currently visiting Montevideo.

• Tuesday, November 1st 2011 - 04:58 UTC

  OAS faces critical financial situation; difficulties to pay salaries

  

  The Organization of American States, OAS, faces a financial ‘crisis’ warned Monday Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza after country members approved the 2012 budget totalling 85.3 million dollars, with no increase over the current level of expenditure.

• Tuesday, November 1st 2011 - 00:50 UTC

  Royal Navy displays abilities in the Solent during four-day high profile exercises

  

  The full gamut of the Royal Navy's abilities was on show in the Solent last week, during a series of high-profile action-packed demonstrations. The Solent separates the Isle of Wight from mainland England and is the access to Southampton.