Stories for June 2009

Tuesday, June 9th 2009 - 12:56 UTC
Leader of Peruvian Indian protests takes refuge in Nicaraguan embassy

The wanted leader of protesting the Peruvian Amazon region Indians has been granted diplomatic asylum at the Nicaraguan embassy and is waiting for a safe conduct announced Monday Prime Minister Yehude Simon in a presentation to members of Congress.
Tuesday, June 9th 2009 - 12:52 UTC
Vancouver, Canada chosen as the most liveable city in the world

The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) announced Monday that Vancouver, British Columbia is the best city in the world to live, followed by Vienna, Austria and Melbourne, Australia.
Tuesday, June 9th 2009 - 12:50 UTC
Spain to the rescue of banks with 9 billion Euros emergency fund

The Spanish government plans to set up a 9 billion Euros emergency fund to prop up the country's weakest banks if other measures fail, Finance Minister Elena Salgado said in a Sunday interview with Madrid’s ABC.
Tuesday, June 9th 2009 - 10:01 UTC
Air France pilots’ union demand replacement of speed sensors

An Air France labour union of pilots called on its members to refuse to fly Airbus A330s and A340s until the airline replaces speed sensors after investigators said the equipment probably played a role in June first Flighty 447 plane crash.
Tuesday, June 9th 2009 - 09:47 UTC
World military expenditure in 2008 totalled 1.46 trillion, up 45% since 1999

United States spent 607 billion US dollars on its military in 2008, accounting for 42% of the total world military expenditure for the year with China, France and the United Kingdom far behind, according to the 2009 Yearbook on Armaments, Disarmament and International Security, issued by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, SIPRI, on Monday.
Tuesday, June 9th 2009 - 09:44 UTC
Repsol, Petrobras and BP to explore for oil next to Falklands’ waters

A consortium led by Spanish oil firm Repsol YPF SA (REP) plans to explore for oil in international waters between Argentina and the Falkland Islands, officials from the company said Monday.
Tuesday, June 9th 2009 - 09:33 UTC
World celebrates “one ocean, once climate, one future”

The world’s oceans generate most of the oxygen we breathe, supply us with food, regulate our climate, clean the water we drink, and offer a pharmacopoeia of potential medicines.
Tuesday, June 9th 2009 - 09:29 UTC
Insulza trusts dialogue will lift embargo and bring Cuba back to OAS

The head of the Organization of American States, OAS said he was hopeful that with the revoke of sanctions to Cuba, the US embargo would eventually be lifted and Havana would rejoin the 34-member organization, but much dialogue would be required.
Tuesday, June 9th 2009 - 09:25 UTC
It’s official: Cuba thanks sanctions’ revoke but says No to OAS

Cuba has formally rejected re-joining the Organization of American States, days after the group revoked Cuba's expulsion from the OAS nearly 50 years ago. Cuba's official media published a government statement Monday saying Cuba's values are incompatible with what it described as the group's neo-liberal values of capitalism and self-promotion.
Tuesday, June 9th 2009 - 05:18 UTC
Falklands call for Argentine Co-operation

The Falklands Islands Government has again called on Argentina to join with them in maintaining good co-operative relations and welcomed the agreement for the forthcoming Argentine relatives’ pilgrimage to inaugurate the Falklands cemetery Darwin where their 1982 war dead are buried. The Islanders also respect the need for Argentine veterans of the war to visit the battlefields where they fought.