Tag: United Kingdom

• Tuesday, June 7th 2011 - 03:27 UTC

  IMF backs UK plan to reduce deficit but warns on weak growth

  

  The International Monetary Fund backed the British government's plans to reduce the budget deficit, but said tax cuts or more quantitative easing may be needed if growth proves persistently weak.

• Thursday, May 12th 2011 - 05:34 UTC

  UK/France ratify Defence and Security Co-operation Treaty

  

  UK Defence Secretary Dr Liam Fox played host on Tuesday to his French counterpart in London to exchange the ratified Defence and Security Co-operation Treaty between the two countries.

• Thursday, March 31st 2011 - 01:10 UTC

  Argentina promotes world-wide Malvinas discussion under the logo of “It takes two to tango”

  

  Argentine ambassador before United Nations Jorge Argüello is scheduled to give a conference this week in Bangkok, Thailand on the ‘Malvinas Islands issue” and the South Atlantic situation.

• Wednesday, January 26th 2011 - 18:20 UTC

  United Kingdom Economy Shrinks Fuelling Fears of Recession

  

  United Kingdom Chancellor George Osborne stands by his financial policies, in spite of figures which show the UK economy has shrunk by 0.5 percent and concerns Britain is facing a recession.

• Sunday, January 2nd 2011 - 21:27 UTC

  Spain will only discuss Gibraltar sovereignty issues with the UK

  

  Spain will not discuss any issue that affects Gibraltar’ sovereignty within the context of the Trilateral Forum, Spanish Foreign Minister Trinidad Jimenez said in an interview over the Christmas break and some its extracts collected in the Gibraltar Chronicle.

• Thursday, December 9th 2010 - 15:21 UTC

  Foreign Secretary lays out policy to help Commonwealth achieve its potential

  

  British Foreign Secretary William Hague laid a statement in Parliament on how the UK plans to reinvigorate the Commonwealth with a vision to strengthen the Commonwealth as “a focus for promoting democratic values and development”.

• Wednesday, November 3rd 2010 - 00:16 UTC

  UK, France sign historic defence-sharing agreement including nuclear arms

  

  After years of political division, Europe's two biggest military powers have come together to sign a historic defence-sharing agreement.

• Monday, October 18th 2010 - 20:52 UTC

  Falklands/Malvinas: Argentina thanks Mercosur partners for renewed support

  

  Argentine Foreign Affairs minister Hector Timerman thanked his Mercosur counterparts for “renewing their support towards Argentina for its legitimate, constant and unlimited right to claim the Malvinas Islands' sovereignty to the United Kingdom”.

• Wednesday, August 4th 2010 - 20:59 UTC

  Meat from offspring of cloned cows consumed in UK triggers controversy

  

  Meat from the offspring of a cloned cow was eaten in the UK last year, the Food Standards Agency has said. Two bulls from the embryos of a cow cloned in the US were bought by a farm near Nairn in the Highlands, and meat from one was sold to consumers.

• Thursday, July 29th 2010 - 05:36 UTC

  UK Overseas Territories “fifth in world league table of bird extinctions”

  

  Put together the UK’s 16 Overseas Territories (including Falklands and South Georgia) are fifth in the world league table of bird extinctions, with at least ten species from the territories going to oblivion since 1500AD, partially or wholly because of the impact of non-native mammals, such as rats, feral cats, mice and pigs, according to BirdLife International site.