International

• Thursday, July 16th 2009 - 15:46 UTC

  OPS changes emphasis of A/H1N1 virus flu to “qualitative” info

  

  The Pan American Health organization, OPS, announced Wednesday it had changed its monitoring system for the A/H1N1 virus because figures released by the different countries do no really reflect the transmission of the pandemic.

• Thursday, July 16th 2009 - 15:18 UTC

  China’s international reserves at a record 2.13 trillion US dollars

  

  China's foreign exchange reserves reached 2.13 trillion US dollars by the end of June 2009, up 17.84% year-on-year, according to the latest release from the People’s Bank of China, PBOC.

• Thursday, July 16th 2009 - 07:13 UTC

  Record unemployment in UK: 2.38 million, the worst since 1995

  

  Unemployment in the United Kingdom has soared to “truly horrendous” levels after a record 281,000 people joined the growing jobless ranks, taking the total to 2.38 million, the worst since 1995.

• Wednesday, July 15th 2009 - 23:50 UTC

  Ten years on - still disagreement on Falklands’ agreement

  

  On the tenth anniversary of the agreement July 14th 1999 between Britain and Argentina on the Falklands, an elected representative of the time still maintains she was right to disagree with the decision that allowed Argentine passport holders the right of access to the Islands.

• Wednesday, July 15th 2009 - 11:30 UTC

  PM Brown “all talents cabinet” coming to an end

  

  Gordon Brown has lost yet another member of his Government as Health Minister Lord Darzi announced he was quitting. The renowned surgeon became the latest minister to join the exodus as he revealed he was stepping down next week in order to focus on his clinical work and academic research.

• Tuesday, July 14th 2009 - 11:18 UTC

  A/H1N1 influenza virus is “unstoppable” admits WHO

  

  The new H1N1 virus is “unstoppable” reported on Monday the World Health Organization which gave drug makers a full go-ahead to manufacture vaccines against the pandemic influenza adding healthcare workers should be the first to get one.

• Tuesday, July 14th 2009 - 10:19 UTC

  WTO blasts protectionism and warns global crisis is far from over

  

  Warning that the global economic crisis is far from over, World Trade Organization Director-General Pascal Lamy said Monday that protectionism is not the answer to tackling the turmoil.

• Tuesday, July 14th 2009 - 07:01 UTC

  India joins the exclusive club of nuclear powered submarines

  

  As part of a major project India is going to place its first domestically produced nuclear powered submarine to sea by mid-August and according to experts, this success will raise the status of Indian technology plus becoming a member of the exclusive club of nations with such submersibles, according to reports in the Indian press.

• Tuesday, July 14th 2009 - 02:41 UTC

  Argentina requests Non-Aligned Movement observer status

  

  The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) countries will consider the admission of Argentina and the World Peace Council (WPC) as observers during the XVth. conference and triennial summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, according to a press release distributed by the summit secretariat Sunday.

• Monday, July 13th 2009 - 11:36 UTC

  Falklands’ war air battles marks record rating in Argentina

  

  History Channel established a new record audience rating in Argentina with the June release of “1982: Malvinas, the war from the air”, an original production from the channel which chronicles the clash of the Argentine Air Force with the British Task Force sent to recover the Islands.