International

• Saturday, May 22nd 2010 - 00:28 UTC

  UN Environment Program questions ‘free market” policies for global fisheries

  

  UN's top environment official has echoed warnings that commercial fishing could be destroyed within 50 years. “It is not a science fiction scenario. It is within the lifetime of a child born today,” said Achim Steiner, head of the UN Environment Program (Unep).

• Saturday, May 22nd 2010 - 00:15 UTC

  An estimated 26 million tons of fish illegally landed every year, warn researchers

  

  Global measures to regulate the fishing industry lack the capability to tackle illegal catches, warn researchers. Writing in the journal Science, they say that up to 26 million tons of fish, worth an estimated 23 billion USD are landed illegally each year.

• Friday, May 21st 2010 - 06:15 UTC

  Sarkozy and Merkel pledge to support the Euro and solve EU debt crisis

  

  France and Germany pledged on Thursday to work together to solve a European debt crisis and support the Euro, patching up a public rift that had rattled markets around the world.

• Friday, May 21st 2010 - 06:10 UTC

  Spanish cabinet approves draconian budget cuts; public sector protests

  

  The Spanish government approved on Thursday approved a €15 billion (19 billion US dollars) austerity plan aimed at reducing the country's large fiscal deficit and easing concerns that Spain could follow Greece into a debt crisis.

• Friday, May 21st 2010 - 02:42 UTC

  Japan extends culling of animals because of ‘explosive’ spread of FMD outbreak

  

  The Japanese government has decided to put down all cows and pigs at livestock farms within 10 kilometres from the heart of the foot-and-mouth disease outbreak in Miyazaki Prefecture, according to official sources.

• Thursday, May 20th 2010 - 06:52 UTC

  PM Cameron reaffirms support for Tripartite Forum Dialogue in Gibraltar

  

  Newly appointed British Foreign Secretary William Hague has declared that the Conservative Government’s position on the Gibraltar issue “is well known and has not changed.”

• Thursday, May 20th 2010 - 03:34 UTC

  World shares fall after surprise move by Germany to limit short-selling

  

  World shares fell on Wednesday after a surprise move by Germany to ban some types of short-selling of financial products. Bans on short selling have been introduced in recent times of financial instability by both the UK and US.

• Thursday, May 20th 2010 - 03:00 UTC

  Barack Obama the most amiable leader for Latinamerica, Spain and Portugal

  

  United States President Barack Obama was voted as the most amiable national leader according to the 2010 Barómetro Iberoamericano de Gobernabilidad, an organization that conducts studies of governmental and economic institutions in Latin America, Spain, and Portugal.

• Wednesday, May 19th 2010 - 05:45 UTC

  Euro opens in Asian markets Wednesday at new four-year low

  

  The Euro dropped to a new four-year low against the US dollar on Wednesday in Asian markets, changing hands at 1.2144 US dollars in early trade in Tokyo, amid persistent concerns over the European debt crisis.

• Tuesday, May 18th 2010 - 21:58 UTC

  Spanish maritime guidelines acknowledge British Gibraltar territorial waters

  

  Spain’s Popular Party opposition has complained after a Spanish ministry issued guidelines to maritime rescue services that appear to acknowledge British Gibraltar territorial waters.