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Stories for July 2008

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

    OPEC president predicts oil below 100 USD a barrel

    OPEC president Chakib Khelil

    The price of crude sunk to below 121 US dollars a barrel, touching on its lowest point since May, in the wake of a strengthening dollar and the comments of OPEC president Chakib Khelil, who called current prices “abnormal” and predicted that the barrel price could sink below 100 dollars in the long term.

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

    Air industry future is here: merger of British and Iberia

    British Airways is on the verge of joining forces with Spanish carrier Iberia after revealing both companies' boards' unanimously support an all-share merger. In a statement British Airways said it was in talks with Iberia with a view to an all-share merger of the two companies.

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

    President-preacher administration 10 year list of “records”

    Chavez celebrates his “marriage” with the mike

    Examples of loquacity, extensive traveling and nepotism are some of the records that the Miami based Spanish language daily “Nuevo Herald” has collected as a “present” extended to the controversial Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez on his 54th birthday, celebrated on Monday July 28th.

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

    Trade talks failure, seen as death kiss for multilateralism

    “There's no use beating around the bush, this meeting has collapsed,” Mr Lamy said

    Marathon talks in Geneva aimed at liberalizing global trade have collapsed admitted the head of the World Trade Organisation Pascal Lamy. Officials have blamed China, India and the US for failing to agree on import rules.

  • Monday, July 28th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

    Chilean commuters take to bikes to keep fit and save

    Chilean bike manufacturers and promoting groups reported this week that bicycle sales increased 30% during the first six months of 2008 in Santiago. New lightweight and easily transportable aluminum bikes have much to do with this sharp increase in sales and bike use, as do increased petroleum prices and new bicycle cycle lanes

  • Monday, July 28th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

    Uruguay brand beef shipped directly to EU consumers

    By the end of the year Uruguay will be shipping beef directly to European Union consumers. The locally packed presentations will have all the traceability information plus the brand name with all the consumer data the supermarket wishes or has to comply with.

  • Monday, July 28th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

    Uruguay presents in The Hague documents on Botnia dispute

    Botnia plant in Uruguay

    Uruguay will be complying Monday with its final written presentation in The Hague on the Botnia pulp mill construction dispute with Argentina that alleges Uruguay ignored water joint management agreements.

  • Monday, July 28th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

    UK Government blamed for fuel prices said nationwide poll

    More than a third of people in the UK believe the Government is primarily responsible for high fuel prices, a new poll has shown.

  • Monday, July 28th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

    Uruguay record year for farm production and export

    Sowing wheat at Uruguayan farm

    Farm production in Uruguay will consolidate its sixth year running of expansion, 66.5% since 2002, and farm exports are forecasted to reach 4.2 billion US dollars, a 51% increase over last year, according to a report from the Ministry of Agriculture Programming and Policies Office, OPYPA.

  • Monday, July 28th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

    US accuses India and China of putting at risk Doha talks

    World trade talks entered a second week on Monday in Geneva with the United States representative accusing India and China of endangering the success of the discussions for having rejected a compromise painfully worked out by WTO Director General Pascal Lamy.