The growing presence of China in Latinamerica was considered Tuesday by the United States Senate concerned with Beijing's expanding interest in the region's energy resources.
Chilean President Ricardo Lagos insisted on Tuesday that all those civilians who played a role during the military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet should apologise to their fellow Chileans as part of a national reconciliation effort.
The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries said Tuesday in Vienna it will make more oil available during the last three months of the year in an effort to ease crude price pressures.
Equity, defined primarily as equality of opportunities among people, should be an integral part of a successful poverty reduction strategy anywhere in the developing world, says the World Bank's annual 2006 World Development Report.
The Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo yesterday announced the identification of another child abducted at birth by the military dictatorship of 1976-83 and illegally offered for adoption.
Speaking so soon after President Néstor Kirchner's presence at the 60th General Assembly of the United Nations, British Ambassador John Hughes thought that UN at the crossroads might be as suitable an umbrella topic as any but soon found that there was more than one dish on the Club de la Unión Nacional menu.
The United Kingdom has no doubts about its sovereignty over the Falkland Islands and there can be no negotiations on the sovereignty of the Islands unless and until the Islanders so wish, stated the UN British delegation.