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.
Uruguayan authorities will not negotiate under pressure was the short message to the Spanish King envoy that arrived Friday in Montevideo acting as a facilitator in the controversy with Argentina over the construction of pulp mills.
Argentina's October industrial output expanded a smaller-than-expected 7.3%, with the automobile and construction sectors continuing to drive growth, the government said on Friday. Local analysts had forecast a 7.9% rise in industrial output.
Normal air services between Gibraltar airport and Madrid Barajas are to commence next December 16th, according to a joint press statement from the participants in the Forum of Dialogue on Gibraltar released Friday.
Falkland Islands Governor Mr Alan Huckle is departing Saturday November 18 to attend the Overseas Territories Consultative Council (OTCC) in London on 21-22 November.
Argentina, the world's second-biggest corn exporter has suspended for an undetermined period new corn export orders beginning November 20 in the latest effort by the government to rein in inflation.
Argentina's Defence Minsiter Nilda Garré confirmed Friday in Puerto Belgrano that a British invitation to jointly commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Falklands/Malvinas conflict is currently under consideration by the Argentine Ministry of Foreign Affairs, reports the Buenos Aires press.
World Trade Organization Director General Pascal Lamy is scheduled to visit Montevideo the coming week to participate in the twentieth anniversary of the GATT Uruguay Round (*).
Milton Friedman, one of the world's best-known economists and winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize for Economics, died of heart failure last Thursday in San Francisco.