International

• Saturday, May 3rd 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  UK protest vote dumps Labor and Tories take London

  

  British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is under pressure from his party to restore his credibility after delivering Labour's worst election results in at least 40 years. In his first electoral test as PM, Mr Brown lost nine councils and 333 seats and saw Labour's Ken Livingstone edged out of power in London after eight years.

• Saturday, May 3rd 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  All Antarctic ship operators now belong to IAATO

  

  Unity, a more agile membership structure and the fact that for the first time all Antarctic ship operators belong to IAATO are some of the outstanding results of the latest general assembly of the organization which this time was held in Punta del Este, Uruguay.

• Saturday, May 3rd 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  On Free Press Day, UN stresses role of access to information

  

  Marking the annual World Press Freedom Day top United Nations officials have stressed the role of a secure and independent media, and access to information, in empowering individuals and advancing development.

• Thursday, May 1st 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  US mortgages rot deep rooted in German banks

  

  The European Union on Wednesday approved a German bailout of WestLB, a regional bank that lost billions from US mortgages gone badly. Germany can now put up 5 billion Euros to help the bank ride out its exposure to the subprime banking crisis.

• Wednesday, April 30th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Spanish court rejects extradition of former Argentine president

  

  However Spain's highest court has ruled that Peron, 77, was not implicated in the death squad's activities. The Anti-Communist Alliance or Triple A as it was known, murdered as many as 15-hundred people, according to human rights groups. The killings have been described as the start of Argentina's “dirty war” against leftist dissidents under subsequent military juntas.

• Tuesday, April 29th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  EU expects slowdown and higher inflation in 2008/09

  

  The marked slowdown in global activity, United States on the brink of recession and persisting financial turmoil are expected to have an impact on the European Union in the next 24 months with slower economic growth and higher inflation.

• Tuesday, April 29th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  IMF approves by wide margin vote and quota reforms

  

  The IMF Board of Governors adopted by wide margin far-reaching reforms to increase the voting shares of a majority of the 185 member countries particularly the large emerging economies.

• Tuesday, April 29th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  UN-World Bank task force to tackle global food crisis

  The United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is setting up a task force to tackle the global food crisis. Ban Ki-moon said the world faced “widespread hunger, malnutrition and social unrest on an unprecedented scale” because of soaring food prices

• Tuesday, April 29th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Benchmark US ruling on polar bears (and global warming)

  

  A US federal judge has ordered the Interior Department to decide by May 15 whether polar bears should be listed as a threatened species because of global warming. The decision was hailed by conservation groups which have been hounding the US government on the issue for years.

• Monday, April 28th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Transparency call for oil industry to help with “revenue puzzle”

  

  A majority of leading oil and gas companies are far from transparent when it comes to the payments they make to resource-rich countries, leaving the door open to corruption and hampering efforts to fight poverty, according to a report published Monday by Transparency International (TI).