Stories for January 2014

Friday, January 10th 2014 - 06:27 UTC
Construction of Monsanto plant in north Argentina halted on environmental grounds

A labor appeals court in north-central Argentina ruled that the construction of a Monsanto plant is unconstitutional, halting work on the site. The three judge court ruled 2-1 in favor of the activists who filed a legal appeal against Monsanto’s GMO seed plant on environmental protection grounds in the municipality of Malvinas Argentinas, located in central Cordoba Province.
Friday, January 10th 2014 - 06:22 UTC
Safest airline is Australia's Qantas with a fatality free-record in the jet era (1951)

AirlineRatings the world's safety and product rating website has announced its top ten safest airlines for 2013 from the 448 it monitors. Top of the list is Qantas which has a fatality free record in the jet era (since 1951).
Friday, January 10th 2014 - 06:11 UTC
Europe short of bees to pollinate crops, warns report from Reading university

Europe needs an extra seven billion bees to pollinate its crops, with Britain in the poor position of having less than a quarter of the honeybees it requires. The demand for insect pollination across Europe is outpacing the growth of honeybee colonies as farmers grow more oil-bearing crops like oilseed rape and sunflowers, and also fruit.
Thursday, January 9th 2014 - 19:00 UTC
End of the golden age of antibiotics, which has become a 'truly global issue'

The growing threat of antibiotic resistant organisms is once again in the spotlight. Prof Jeremy Farrar, the new head of Britain's biggest medical research charity the Wellcome Trust said it was a “truly global issue”. Prof. Farrar told BBC Radio 4's Today program that the golden age of antibiotics could come to an end unless action is taken.
Thursday, January 9th 2014 - 18:45 UTC
Violence threatens to thwart Iraqi oil resurgence

By Nicholas Cunningham - A wave of violence has swept parts of Iraq at the start of 2014 as the central government fights back against Al-Qaeda aligned militants in Anbar Province. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) reportedly took control of Ramadi and Fallujah, bombing police headquarters and killing dozens.
Thursday, January 9th 2014 - 15:03 UTC
Active online poll from “The Telegraph” shows Falklands should be under Argentine sovereignty

According to an active online poll released in the British newspaper “The Daily Telegraph”, a clear majority, almost double, of the voters affirmed that the Falklands Islands should be under Argentina’s sovereignty. Almost half the majority of respondents rejected the idea and supported Britain, while the rest answered that the territory should be under “shared sovereignty.”
Thursday, January 9th 2014 - 07:09 UTC
Argentine idea to move the capital to north of the country closer to Pacific basin

The president of the Lower House, and Victory Front lawmaker Julián Domínguez affirmed that Argentina's capital should be moved to the north. It is not the first time that this kind of project is presented: when Ricardo Alfonsín was president during the 80's, he proposed to transfer the nation’s capital to Viedma, a town located in the southern province of Río Negro.
Thursday, January 9th 2014 - 07:05 UTC
Police acted lawfully when they shot a man whose death triggered London's 2011 rioting

British inquest found that police acted lawfully when they shot and killed a man whose death sparked a wave of rioting in 2011 in the worst civil unrest in the country in decades. Mark Duggan, 29, died after he was shot by police who suspected he was armed at the time.
Thursday, January 9th 2014 - 06:59 UTC
Most Fed members agreed on December's stimulus reduction, indicate minutes

Federal Reserve members mostly agreed about a reduction in the central bank's stimulus efforts in December, meeting minutes released Wednesday reveal. The central bank announced a $10bn a month reduction in its bond buying program at the end of its December meeting.
Thursday, January 9th 2014 - 06:54 UTC
Panama Canal expansion discussions stall; Italian company demands an extra 1bn

The Panama Canal Authority, or ACP, said on Wednesday it would be “impossible” to meet the demands of Italian builder Impregilo, which has called on the government agency to make an additional payment of up to 1 billion dollars to cover cost overruns affecting a project to expand the international waterway.