Stories for 2009

Wednesday, November 25th 2009 - 10:05 UTC
Oil rig “Ocean Guardian” leaves on 62-day journey to the Falklands

A tug boat is to haul a North Sea oil and gas exploration rig from a Highlands deep water port on a 62-day journey to the Falkland Islands. The “Ocean Guardian” rig will be used by Desire Petroleum to explore reserves in the North Falkland Basin.
Wednesday, November 25th 2009 - 10:01 UTC
Brazil to scrutinize Argentine imports licences system

Mercosur senior partners are again clashing over trade. Brazilian government announced that it will run an exhaustive study of all the non-automatic import licenses that President Lula da Silva’s administration believes cause nothing but Argentine restrictions on Brazilian products.
Wednesday, November 25th 2009 - 09:58 UTC
Moratinos downplays incidents in Gibraltar waters with the Guardia Civil

Spanish foreign affairs minister Miguel Ángel Moratinos said the Guardia Civil continued to cooperate with law enforcement agencies in the sea around Gibraltar, despite Spain not recognising British sovereignty of those waters.
Wednesday, November 25th 2009 - 06:00 UTC
On the 150th anniversary of “On the origin of species”, Darwin’s missing notebook

Charles Darwin's encounter with the first of the two creatures that would provide him with the early clues for his theory of evolution was not a dramatic one. “Met an immense Turpin; took little notice of me,” the 26-year-old jotted in his notebook in 1835.
Wednesday, November 25th 2009 - 05:41 UTC
Peru proposes a South American “peace force” to contain regional conflicts

Peru will propose the creation of a South American “Peace Force” next Friday in Ecuador when the meeting of the Union of South American Nations Defence Council, announced Peruvian Production minister Mercedes Araoz following a meeting in Montevideo with Uruguayan president Tabare Vazquez.
Wednesday, November 25th 2009 - 05:06 UTC
Bank of England emergency loans at height of crisis peaked £ 61.6 billion

Emergency loans to Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and HBOS peaked at £61.6 billion at the height of the financial crisis, the Bank of England has said. The Bank revealed for the first time the details of its Emergency Liquidity Assistance (ELA) to both banks in a submission to the Treasury Select Committee.
Wednesday, November 25th 2009 - 04:42 UTC
Colombia/Ecuador re-establish trade relations after 21 months

Ecuador and Colombia formally established this week ties at trade representation level, official sources said in Quito and Bogotá. The two governments announced that “full normalization” will take place when the so called “sensitive” issues have been addressed and solved.
Wednesday, November 25th 2009 - 04:37 UTC
Brazil plans to export 168 billion USD in 2010

Brazil targets exports of 168 billion US dollars for 2010 (compared to 160 billion USD in 2009) announced Deputy Trade Minister Welber Barral during the opening of a foreign commerce forum in Rio do Janeiro.
Tuesday, November 24th 2009 - 13:16 UTC
Disenchantment factor ahead of next Sunday’s Uruguayan presidential runoff

With less than a week for Sunday’s runoff when Uruguay’s next president will be definitively elected, public opinion polls show support for both candidates “frozen” with a significant percentage undecided or with the intention of voting blank or spoiling their vote.
Tuesday, November 24th 2009 - 13:12 UTC
Argentina defends the right of the Palestine people to have a State

Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner defended the right of the Palestinian State to “have its own frontiers” in a lunch shared with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, at the Government House.