Stories for November 2009

Saturday, November 28th 2009 - 05:15 UTC
Brazil still recovering from major outage, suffers blackout in Olympic city Rio

Brazil has endured another major blackout and officials remain unclear what is causing the problem. Higher-scale Rio de Janeiro beach neighbourhood earlier in the week suffered an outage forcing employees to be sent home as restaurants and other businesses disposed of spoiled food.
Saturday, November 28th 2009 - 05:11 UTC
Costa Rica calls for recognition of Honduras Sunday elections results

Costa Rica president Oscar Arias, who mediated in the Honduran political crisis, announced his country would recognize the winner of next Sunday’s election and called on other countries to follow in statements to CNN.
Saturday, November 28th 2009 - 05:03 UTC
China promises to continue playing a leading role in global recovery

China will continue the proactive fiscal policy and moderately easy monetary policy next year, the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee agreed Friday, reports the official news agency Xinhua.
Friday, November 27th 2009 - 11:39 UTC
Amazon region call on rich nations to fund preservation of forests

Nine nations in the Amazon region have called on rich countries to provide poorer nations with the funds to preserve forests. The nations, meeting in Manaus, Brazil, also discussed supporting a 40% reduction in global emissions by 2020.
Friday, November 27th 2009 - 11:36 UTC
Brazil and the US confirm differences over Honduras Sunday elections

Brazil’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Celso Amorim reaffirmed on Thursday divergences with the United States regarding the political crisis in Honduras before the opening of the Amazon basin countries and France Summit on climate change in Manaus, Brazil.
Friday, November 27th 2009 - 11:32 UTC
Irish company plans to invest 1.6 billion USD in wind farms in Chile

Irish energy firm Mainstream Renewable Power hopes to invest 1.6 billion US dollars in coming years to extend its Chilean wind farm operations. The firm is currently exploring the feasibility of building nine new wind farms across the country, local executive Jose Ignacio Escobar revealed this week.
Friday, November 27th 2009 - 11:31 UTC
Falklands’ begins 2010 with a new Director of Community Safety

Chief Superintendent Gary Finchett, Northern Area Commander of Cheshire Police in the United Kingdom will be taking up the post of the Falkland Islands Director of Community Safety on 11 January.
Friday, November 27th 2009 - 11:25 UTC
“South American Sails 2010” begins in Rio, February with calls in ten countries

A dozen tall ships from the Americas and Europe will be participating next year in a regatta that will tour ten Latinamerican countries in the framework of the bicentennial celebrations, which marked the beginning of the end of Spanish colonial rule in the region.
Friday, November 27th 2009 - 11:16 UTC
Norway opens world’s first osmotic power plant prototype

Norwegian renewable energy giant Statkraft has switched on the world's first osmotic power plant prototype - using a technology which produces electricity from a process which mixes fresh water and salty sea water.
Friday, November 27th 2009 - 11:12 UTC
El Niño Cranks Up The Heat This Summer

Summer is coming to Chile in less than a month and climatologists predict thermometers will be rising more than usual due to El Niño, the warm ocean current that wreaks havoc on the climates of countries along the Pacific Ocean.