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Stories for November 2nd 2006

• Thursday, November 2nd 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Melbourne wool sales offer a ray of hope for Falklands farmers

  Wool sales held in Melbourne Australia on October 31st saw prices peaking higher than for some years and offered a ray of hope to Falklands farmers.

• Thursday, November 2nd 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Decision on Falklands finfish quotas by Executive Council

  Falkland Islands Governor, Mr Alan Huckle, reported Wednesday on the local radio station, FIRS, that Executive Council, the South Atlantic archipelago's senior governing body, had approved the methodology for determining applications for Individual Transferable Quotas (ITQs) and Provisional Quotas (PQs) in the various finfish fisheries.

• Thursday, November 2nd 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Panama named for UN seat by Venezuela, Guatemala

  Venezuela and Guatemala agreed to abandon their competing bids to win a two-year seat on the UN Security Council, settling on Panama as a compromise candidate.

• Thursday, November 2nd 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Bolivia plays off Washington and Venezuela

  Just a month after signing a military agreement with Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez Bolivian President Evo Morales entered into an agreement with Chávez' sworn enemy the U.S. military.

• Thursday, November 2nd 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Gibraltar referendum “does not affect Spain's position”

  Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos has played down the references to self-determination contained in the question that will be put to Gibraltarians at the forthcoming referendum for a new constitution on November 30th.

• Thursday, November 2nd 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Nicaragua: another tight and polarized election

  Nicaraguan former president Daniel Ortega is the favourite in Sunday's national elections as he makes yet another bid for power 16 years after his first stormy presidency ended at the ballot box.

• Thursday, November 2nd 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Euro rates unchanged but inflation warning still on

  The European Central Bank decided Thursday to keep Eurozone interest rates unchanged at 3.25%, as markets were expecting. However analysts believe the ECB will up rates by 0.25% in December to keep close track of inflation and once data on the performance of the German economy is available.

• Thursday, November 2nd 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Global cargo and passenger traffic up in September

  Global passenger traffic in September 2006 grew at 2.5% over the same month in 2005, following 2.3% in August and 2.6% in July, reports the Airports Council International.

• Thursday, November 2nd 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Brazil's worst air disaster points to traffic controllers

  The flight recorder transcript from the Long Island executive jet involved in Brazil's worst air disaster shows that its pilots were told by Brazilian air traffic control to fly at the same altitude as a Boeing 737 before the planes collided, according to a newspaper report Thursday.

• Thursday, November 2nd 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Uruguayan congress approves Venezuela's Mercosur membership

  The Uruguayan Congress with the sole vote of the ruling coalition members approved Thursday the incorporation of Venezuela to Mercosur. This makes Uruguay the first country in the block to have complied with the incorporation procedure for the new member.