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Stories for 2006

• Sunday, November 5th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Enhanced TriStars will remain fit into next decade

  Royal Air Force Lockheed TriStar some of which for years covered the air bridge to the Falkland Islands will be undergoing flight management and communications systems improvements following the award of a £22 million contract to Marshall of Cambridge Aerospace.

• Sunday, November 5th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  US Governors' elections, a glimpse of 2008

  Next Tuesday's mid term elections in United States are not only a close fight for control of Congress with Democrats better placed than the battered Republicans but will also see voters in 36 of the 50 states choose governors.

• Sunday, November 5th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  EU top official visits Uruguay, Argentina, Chile

  European Union Foreign Relations Commissar Benita Ferrero-Waldner currently visiting several Mercosur countries is scheduled to meet with her Argentine counterpart Jorge Taiana, Monday in Buenos Aires.

• Sunday, November 5th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Mercosur and EU willing to compromise on trade

  Mercosur and European Union delegates begin Monday a two days meeting in Rio do Janeiro with the purpose of re-launching negotiations for a free trade agreement.

• Sunday, November 5th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Royal “impeller” for the pulp mills dispute

  King of Spain Juan Carlos will act as a “facilitator” or “impeller”, according to the version, in an attempt to bring together the positions of Uruguay and Argentina divided over the construction of paper mills and pickets blocking bridges between the neighboring countries.

• Saturday, November 4th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Spanish prime minister wants to broker Buenos Aires-Montevideo truce in pulp mill dispute

  Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero wishes to use the Ibero-American Summit that opened yesterday in Montevideo to broker a truce between Argentina and Uruguay in their ongoing rift over Uruguayan paper pulp mills.

• Saturday, November 4th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Annan praises Iberoamerican leaders for focus on illegal immigration

  UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan yesterday praised leaders at the 16th annual Ibero-American Summit for resolving to make progress on growing illegal immigration in an increasingly mobile world community.

• Friday, November 3rd 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Penguin News

  Headlines:
  Competitive cuisine; MRSA found in hospital; SAMA group arrives; Carlisle coaching team; Thatcher Jnr plans filming; MPs begin Falklands tour; Dockyard views; Encouraging wool news; This week's cruise ships.

• Friday, November 3rd 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Migration is proving controversial for the Summit

  The plight of millions of Latinamerican migrants looking for better living conditions in the United States or in the European Union will be the main issue of the 16th Iberoamerican summit which officially opens this afternoon in Montevideo.

• Friday, November 3rd 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  IMF praises Latinamerica and warns vulnerabilities

  Latin America and the Caribbean are forecasted to expand 4.3% next year following this year's 4.8% and 4.4% in 2005, according to the latest review from the International Monetary Fund, IMF, released this week.