MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for March 30th 2008
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Sunday, March 30th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Buenos Aires Mayor blames Kirchners for farmers' lockout
Buenos Aires City conservative Mayor Mauricio Macri blamed Argentina's farmers lockout on the government of President Cristina Kirchner and, in what seemed a reference to her and her husband and predecessor Néstor Kirchner, he criticized “those who seek eternal power”.
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Sunday, March 30th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
France increasingly involved in release of Colombian hostages
Colombia thanked France for having displayed on stand by a medical evacuation aircraft to receive, in case she's released, ailing French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt kidnapped by the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces, FARC over six years ago.
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Sunday, March 30th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Muslims outnumber Catholics worldwide reveals Vatican
Islam has overtaken Roman Catholicism as the biggest single religious denomination in the world, the Vatican said on Sunday. Monsignor Vittorio Formenti, who compiled the Vatican's newly-released 2008 yearbook of statistics, said Muslims made up 19.2% of the world's population and Catholics 17.4%.
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Sunday, March 30th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Mrs. Kirchner forced to cancel meeting with PM Brown
Argentina's president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner cancelled her coming trip to Great Britain because of the worsening of the farmers' 17 days conflict. Mrs. Kirchner was expecting to talk about Argentina's Falklands' claims in London.
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Sunday, March 30th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
UN climate change talks kick off in Bangkok
A fresh round of United Nations-sponsored climate change talks, expected to draw 1,000 participants, will kick off next week in Bangkok, Thailand.
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Sunday, March 30th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
CFK Malvinas Day message next Wednesday
Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner will head next Wednesday April 2, --the 26th anniversary of the Argentine invasion of the Falkland Islands--, the main ceremony of the Veterans and Fallen in the Malvinas War Day.
