Politics

• Thursday, February 28th 2013 - 14:13 UTC

  Falklands’ situation attracts attention from China involved in Far East Asia islands dispute

  

  Interest in the Falkland Islands’ dispute with Argentina, assimilated to the current Senkakus/Diayous islands situation in Asia apparently has not been limited to the quotes made by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe before the Japanese Parliament but also in another minor experience precisely in the Falklands and involving the Editor of the Penguin News, the local weekly newspaper of the Islands.

• Thursday, February 28th 2013 - 14:06 UTC

  Japan appeals to Thatcher Falklands’ resolve quotes in islands dispute with China

  

  Japan's prime minister on Thursday quoted comments by former British premier Margaret Thatcher about the Falklands War with Argentina as he spoke about Tokyo's acrimonious islands’ dispute with China.

• Thursday, February 28th 2013 - 06:13 UTC

  Argentina urges ‘workable’ solution from US appeals court to dispute with holdout bondholders

  

  Argentina's defence urged a US appeals court on Wednesday to come up with a “workable” solution to its long-running fight with so-called holdout bondholders, and assured the country will not pay an amount exceeding the one set in the debt-swaps.

• Thursday, February 28th 2013 - 06:07 UTC

  President Rousseff pledges to cut “Brazil cost” and keeping inflation in check

  

  President Dilma Rousseff said on Wednesday that Brazil must cut its high business costs to become more competitive and vowed to keep inflation in check. The leader anticipated that 2013 will be a year of major infrastructure investments in roads, railways, ports and airports to try to stop bottlenecks from holding the economy back.

• Thursday, February 28th 2013 - 06:00 UTC

  Benedict XVI admits deep trouble in the Church; next Pope before Palm Sunday

  

  Bidding an emotional farewell to a huge crowd gathered in the Vatican's St. Peter's Square, Pope Benedict XVI indirectly acknowledged Wednesday that his nearly eight years as head of the Roman Catholic Church have not always been easy.

• Thursday, February 28th 2013 - 05:57 UTC

  HMS Argyll briefed in Portugal on illegal drugs trade ahead of South Atlantic deployment

  

  South Atlantic patrol HMS Argyll has stopped at Lisbon to be briefed on the illegal drugs trade off West Africa in preparation for her Atlantic deployment, according to a Royal Navy release.

• Thursday, February 28th 2013 - 03:41 UTC

  Cameron accuses Labour candidate of supporting Argentina during the Falklands’ war

  

  Ahead of a much disputed by election at Eastleigh, Hampshire, Prime Minister David Cameron had a chance to make an impression during the PM questions on Wednesday accusing Labour hopeful John O’Farrell of supporting terrorism and Argentina because he wanted Great Britain to lose the Falklands’ war.

• Wednesday, February 27th 2013 - 21:00 UTC

  A turning event 60 years ago: ‘German economic miracle’ or debt condolence

  

  Highly indebted, without access to capital, viewed suspiciously by creditors, that was Germany in 1953. Half the country's debts were canceled 60 years ago this week, the foundation of the “economic miracle.”

• Wednesday, February 27th 2013 - 20:14 UTC

  Cameron, ‘the most robust PM in the Falklands’ issue in the last 30 years’, says Professor Dodds

  

  Britain went to war over the Falkland Islands over thirty years ago when the Argentine military invaded the Islands, but the issue of sovereignty disputed by Argentina has never really gone away. Germany’s Deutsche Welle looks at the current UK government's policy towards the Falklands and the coming referendum, in an interview with Klaus Dodds, Professor of Geopolitics at Royal Holloway, University of London.

• Wednesday, February 27th 2013 - 06:53 UTC

  Argentina/Iran accord could just make it in Wednesday’s vote in the Lower House

  

  The bilateral memorandum of understanding, MOU, between Argentina and Iran to investigate the 1994 AMIA bombing was cleared for debate by the Lower House committees on Tuesday and will be discussed on Wednesday at the floor. Foreign Minister Hector Timerman clashed with opposition lawmakers during his briefing over the case.