Stories for 2007

Monday, August 6th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Brazil's Petrobras wants to sell gas to Chile

The Brazilian gas company Petrobras wants to export Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) to the Chilean market.
Monday, August 6th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
UK Probes Laboratory as Source for Foot-and-Mouth Outbreak

U.K. health and safety authorities extended their investigation into a vaccine laboratory southwest of London owned by Merck and Sanofi-Aventis as a possible source of foot-and-mouth disease after cattle became infected at a farm near the site. Merial Animal Health said that so far no breach in its procedures had been discovered.
Monday, August 6th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Argentine Jewish community rejects Chavez visit

Representatives from the Argentine Jewish community expressed their “rejection and shame” over this Monday's visit of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez who has strong political ties with Iran that has forecasted the destruction of Israel and is allegedly linked to a deadly attack on a 1994 Buenos Aires Jewish community center.
Monday, August 6th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Latin America's richest man is worth 67.8 billion US dollars

Mexican telecom tycoon Carlos Slim, who is estimated by some calculations to be the world's richest man, said that he shook aside those comments and was more interested in making his business life compatible with his family and personal life.
Monday, August 6th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
President Kirchner's confidence index keeps eroding

With less than three months for next October presidential election the Nestor Kirchner administration is going through one of its worst moments since he first took office in May 2003, according to the Confidence Index from the Torcuato Di Tella University.
Sunday, August 5th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
UK: Foot-and-mouth disease disease strain linked to nearby lab

The outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease on a farm in Surrey is being linked to a nearby animal research laboratory, with fears the virus could have leaked from the facility
Sunday, August 5th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Falklands: No charter flight for Argentine families

THERE has still been no firm proposal from Argentina with respect to a visit by families to the Argentine Cemetery at Darwin planned for November 28.
Sunday, August 5th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Caruana would win fourth consecutive election, says poll

Gibraltar Social Democrats would be returned to power with a comfortable 17-18 point lead if an election were held now, according to the results of an opinion poll conducted by marketing and PR company Copywrite Ltd.
Sunday, August 5th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
UN food for victims of floods and deep freeze in S. America

United Nations is helping to provide emergency food to nearly 100,000 people after the worst floods in decades in Colombia and the coldest weather in 30 years in Peru brought even more misery to over 1 million of Latin America's most impoverished inhabitants
Friday, August 3rd 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Argentina offered end of pickets for delay in opening pulp mill

Uruguay rejected an Argentine proposal for a truce in the pulp mills conflict during the recent two days technical meeting held earlier this week in New York under the “dialogue facilitating efforts” of the Spanish Crown.