MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for 2006
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Monday, September 18th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
IMF two year reform process launched in Singapore
The International Monetary Fund, IMF, agreed Monday on reforms giving China, Mexico, South Korean and Turkey more say in how the multilateral institution is run.
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Monday, September 18th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Oil imports push US current account deficit
Record oil import costs pushed United States current account deficit to 218.4 billion US dollars in the second quarter, equivalent to 6% of total US economic output, reported the US Department of Commerce.
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Monday, September 18th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Venezuela/Iran: no end to mutual “revolutionary” praise
Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Venezuela's Hugo Chavez's inaugurated Monday a joint heavy oil/tar sands exploration operation in the Orinoco belt which if confirmed in 2008 could make Venezuela the country with the world's largest hydrocarbons reserves.
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Monday, September 18th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
When Castro is gone: “peace and reconciliation”
Cuban dissident Oswaldo Paya says he fears the Castro regime will begin killing opponents if it feels threatened, though he also detects in the events surrounding Fidel Castro's illness signs of impending rapid change in Cuba.
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Sunday, September 17th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Chavez ignores Calderon and praises Lopez Obrador
Venezuela's Hugo Chavez reiterated Sunday in Caracas that his government “does not recognize the president elect of Mexico” who he said “represents a desperate extreme right which appeals to all sorts of dirty tricks”, although “it's difficult to see them hail victory”.
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Sunday, September 17th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
IMF begins biggest shake up in six decades
The International Monetary Fund, IMF, is scheduled to begin addressing Monday “the biggest shake up in six decades” of the multilateral organization, according to Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown who chairs the top steering committee.
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Sunday, September 17th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Brazilian television calls Malvinas “Falklands”
Brazil's main television station international signal, TV Globo refers to the Malvinas Islands as “Falklands”, complained the Argentine agency DYN.
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Sunday, September 17th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
South Georgia received 5.427 visitors last season
The number of cruise ships and passengers visiting South Georgia last season was the highest ever, according to the
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Sunday, September 17th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Mild quake rocks northwest Argentina and Chile
A mid scale earthquake rocked Sunday northwestern Argentina and upper central Chile. In Argentina according to the Inpress seismology Institute it reached a 5.8 magnitude but no injuries or damages were reported.
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Saturday, September 16th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Falklands' veteran: “richest sergeant in Afghanistan”
Caked in mud as he digs trenches and lays explosives intended to thwart the Taleban, he may not look like a man who has a lot of money.
