Command
of British Forces in the South Atlantic passed from the
Royal Navy to the Army as the outgoing Commander, CommodoreIan Moncrieff, formally handed
over to Brigadier Nick Davies on Monday.
Norwegian industrial holding company Aker ASA announced that its subsidiary Aker BioMarine has decided to invest 170 million US dollars in building a second krill harvesting ship, probably the highest cost ever for a fishing vessel.
Argentine pickets resumed action Monday afternoon with the indefinite blockade of land access to Uruguay to protest the building of a pulp mill plant on the Uruguayan side of the river that divides the neighboring countries.
Brazilian foreign debt totaled 174.560 billion US dollars at the end of October which represents a 13.7 billion US dollars increase, 8.5%, over September reported Monday the Central
Bank.
It's not just a protocol two days visit, it's a visit to confirm achievements which are good for Venezuela?Venezuela? ?my God I'm nuts, I mean New Zealand said Chilean president Michelle Bachelet during one of the events prepared for her in New Zealand.
Peruvian president Alan García suffered Sunday a major setback in regional and municipal elections with his APRA party loosing control of most regions replaced in many cases by autonomous political movements according to the latest electoral results.
Paraguay's ruling Partido Colorado won a landslide 75% of the country's 234 municipalities in Sunday's elections which also marked a record abstention of 40%, according to local electoral authorities.
The elected governors of six of the nine departments which make up Bolivia, and belonging to opposition parties, have broken relations with President Evo Morales claiming he has violated constituent assembly regulations.
Brazil's government owned Petrobras averaged during October oil and gas production of 2.343.451 barrels which is 4.7% above the same month a year ago and 1.6% up from September 2006.
Leaders from the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum pledged to tackle a deadlock in global trade talks after ending Sunday their key regional summit in Vietnam but are also considering alternatives for when they meet next year in Australia.