Stories for August 2005
Latest News feed“I did everything possible to make Argentina loose Malvinas war”
“I did everything possible to make Argentina loose the (Malvinas) war”, is the spectacular introduction to a Chilean television program to be aired Wednesday night with a very special guest, General Fernando Matthei, former Commander of the Chilean Air Force and responsible for the secret coordination with the British in 1982.
Brazil: lack of reforms greater threat than political crisis
Economists downplayed the impact of the Brazilian political crisis on the economy but warned that crucial reforms are being delayed as Congress concentrates in the corruption allegations.
Flexibility, the US economy “most valued asset”
The US economy has weathered reasonably well the steep rise in spot and future prices for crude oil and natural gas in the last two years said Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan who also highlighted “flexibility” as the economy’s “most valued asset”.
The Brazilian Navy’s atomic bomb ambition
An atomic bomb as powerful as those dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, was almost built in Brazil at the beginning of the nineties under the supervision of the Brazilian armed forces.
Record spring ozone layer hole forecasted
The ozone layer hole over the Antarctica began expanding in mid August and has reached ten million square kilometres, an area equivalent to Europe, according to readings from the Envisat satellite belonging to the European Space Agency.
Saudi Arabia ready to pump 11 million bpd
Saudi Arabia announced Tuesday it was ready to increase crude production to eleven million bpd in case the consequences of the “Katrina” hurricane cause a shortage in the market, said Saudi Oil minister Ali al-Nuami.
US Census shows 37 million living in poverty
The United States poverty rate rose to 12.7% of the population last year, the fourth consecutive annual increase, reported the US Census Bureau Tuesday. Overall there are 37 million people living in poverty, up 1,1 million from 2003.
New chapter for Mercosur-EU negotiations
The European Union and Mercosur will attempt to resume negotiations for a political association and free trade agreement, which have been stalled since October 2004, in next Friday’s ministerial meeting to be held in Brussels.
Antarctica tremors help prove Earth’s two speed rotation
Tremors occurred in the South Sandwich Islands near Antarctica and detected by seismometers near Fairbanks, Alaska helped elucidate a decades’ long geophysics controversy regarding the Earth’s rotation and magnetic field.
France Compiles Blacklist for Airlines
Reacting to the “black month” of August France published a list of airlines that aren’t allowed to fly its airspace, thus beating European regulators to the punch.
