International

• Thursday, December 3rd 2009 - 08:00 UTC

  Europe concerned unemployment undermining recovery

  

  Unemployment in the 16-nation Euro zone remained at 9.8% in October after being revised higher to that level in September (from 9.7 to 9.8%), according to the European Union statistics office in Luxembourg said today. This is the highest rate since December 1998.

• Wednesday, December 2nd 2009 - 15:21 UTC

  European Union Treaty to Make EU More Powerful

  

  The European Union's Lisbon Treaty has come into force with the aim of streamlining EU decision-making. The first EU president also took office along with the bloc's new foreign policy chief.

• Wednesday, December 2nd 2009 - 12:58 UTC

  Spanish Judge Demands US$77 Million From Pinochet’s Wife And Advisers

  

  Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon on Monday demanded that the widow and advisors of former Chilean Dictator Augusto Pinochet pay US$77 million to a Spanish charity for his regime’s victims within the next 10 days.

• Wednesday, December 2nd 2009 - 12:43 UTC

  Google to limit free news access

  

  Newspaper publishers will now be able to set a limit on the number of free news articles people can read through Google, the company has announced.

• Wednesday, December 2nd 2009 - 12:10 UTC

  EU welcomes newly qualified seafood exports

  

  The European Union (EU) informed the National Directorate of Aquatic Resources (DINARA) that Uruguay will be able to resume shipments of seafood products to the EU market. This announcement marks the end of restrictions imposed by the European bloc in 2008.

• Tuesday, December 1st 2009 - 13:10 UTC

  Mercosur/EU political support to bolster technical meetings

  

  Mercosur officials together with representatives from Spain, Portugal and the European Community agreed Monday to provide greater emphasis to the technical meetings with the purpose of advancing towards an association agreement between the two blocks.

• Tuesday, December 1st 2009 - 12:59 UTC

  Argentina protests Lisbon Treaty which has Falklands as associate territory

  

  With the coming into effect December first of the European Union Lisbon Treaty, Argentina has instructed its embassies to protest EU pretensions that Malvinas, South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands and surrounding maritime spaces, and the Argentine Antarctic sector are EU associate territories.

• Tuesday, December 1st 2009 - 12:55 UTC

  RAF investigating “minor incident” involving a Typhoon in the Falklands

  

  An investigation has been launched after minor damage was found on two UK Royal Air Force aircraft shortly after they had completed an in-flight refuelling sortie near the Falkland Islands.

• Tuesday, December 1st 2009 - 12:41 UTC

  Second woman receives Military Cross as Falklands veteran sells medal

  

  Their extraordinary acts of bravery are separated by 27 years. But as the first woman in the Royal Navy to be awarded the Military Cross proudly collected her medal at Buckingham Palace today a veteran who received the equivalent award for his actions in the Falklands put his medal up for sale.

• Tuesday, December 1st 2009 - 11:05 UTC

  Ibero-American summit divided over the Honduras political situation

  

  Portugal's Foreign Affairs Minister Luis Amado said on Monday that Portugal is working as a mediator among Ibero-American countries to achieve a consensus on the Honduras political situation that is threatening the 19th summit’s final declaration.