Differences between Venezuela and Colombia won’t reach extreme situations and both neighbours will find a way out through dialogue, said Brazilian Defence Minister Nelson Jobim.
Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez alert calling on the Army and the people to prepare for “a possible war” with Colombia shell-shocked the Brazilian Senate that this week is scheduled to vote on Venezuela’s full incorporation to Mercosur.
The Argentine government recently announced a plan to offer a debt swap to investors still holding US$20 billion (plus interest) in unpaid bonds from the country’s 2001 debt default.
The United Kingdom is the developed nation most at risk of losing its AAA sovereign credit rating because of the budget deficit and virtually no margin left in the event of another downturn, Fitch warned Tuesday.
The international laboratory GlaxoSmithKline has promised to donate 50 million doses of pandemic H1N1 vaccine to the World Health Organization (WHO) under an agreement signed at WHO headquarters in Geneva.
In 2006, British officials filed an application to list part of Gibraltar waters as an EU protected nature site. Now it has emerged they got the wrong coordinates: Instead of designating the sea around Gibraltar, they listed a stretch of water somewhere off the coast of Algeria.
Lloyds Banking Group is to axe thousands of jobs next year in a fresh wave of cuts under plans to reduce costs, sources have said. Up to 5,000 positions are expected to be cut in the UK in 2010, on top of thousands already slashed this year.
United Kingdom affluent shoppers hit by the recession are fuelling a shoplifting crime-wave, according to research. Middle-class people reluctant to give up luxuries they can no longer afford are behind thefts of expensive foods, alcohol and cosmetics, the Centre for Retail Research data claimed.
World global demand for energy which has fallen in 2009 because of the recession is forecasted to soar 40% by 2030 and the Copenhagen summit next month will be “crucial” to design an energy sustainable future according to the “World Energy Outlook 2009” released in London by the International Energy Agency.
The Peruvian Navy expressed interest in the acquisition of Argentine manufactured missiles currently under development, basically a version of the sea air Aspide, according to a Monday release from the Argentine Defence ministry.