Stories for October 10th 2003

Friday, October 10th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

Brazil: Oil new project in the Amazon jungle.

Brazil's state oil industry is extracting more natural gas and crude in the country's jungled north as part of a development program that is bringing investment and jobs on pipelines and at refineries, in the remote and left-behind region.

Friday, October 10th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

Falklands/Malvinas sovereignty is the ultimate goal.

Argentine Ambassador Federico Mirre takes up his new position as Argentine Ambassador in London next week. Mirre is a lawyer and a career diplomat. Previous foreign posts include The Vatican, Germany, France, Ivory Coast and Norway the last two where he served as Ambassador. He was born in Argentina in 1939, is married and has two daughters. He is currently director of the Western Europe Desk at the Argentine Foreign Affairs Ministry in Buenos Aires.

Friday, October 10th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

Senate Suspends Court Justice.

Argentina's Senate voted overwhelmingly Thursday to suspend a controversial Supreme Court justice, the second targeted in a high court purge led by President Nestor Kirchner.

Friday, October 10th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

Five charged with illegal fishing in Australia's sub-Antarctic waters.

The Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA) has charged five foreign nationals with illegal fishing following the seizure of the Uruguayan-flagged vessel Viarsa 1.