Stories for June 2010

Thursday, June 10th 2010 - 06:10 UTC
Power emergency extended for another 60 days in Venezuela

Venezuela extended for another sixty days the national power emergency which has first imposed last February to address the energy crisis punishing the country. The new extension was published in the Official Gazette 7 June, effective June 8 and follows on the previous 60 days period from April.
Thursday, June 10th 2010 - 06:09 UTC
Hillary Clinton promises all military information of US presence in Colombia

United States promised to deliver the Union of South American Nations, Unasur, all the necessary information regarding its military presence in Colombia, said Ecuadorean president Rafael Correa, following a meeting with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Thursday, June 10th 2010 - 06:07 UTC
Brazil expects 145.8 million tons crop in 2010; soybeans area up 7.2%

Brazil's crop will reach 145.8 million tons in 2010, up 8.8% from 2009, according to a May projection released on Tuesday by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). The projection is 0.5% lower than April’s, released in May.
Wednesday, June 9th 2010 - 21:18 UTC
UK reaffirms Falklands’ self determination and British sovereignty

The British Foreign Office reaffirmed Wednesday the right to self determination of the Falkland Islands and dismissed the latest statements calling for sovereignty negotiations over the Islands with Argentina.
Wednesday, June 9th 2010 - 20:06 UTC
Uruguay received 910.597 tourists in the first four months of 2010

In the first four months of this year (high season in the southern hemisphere) Uruguay hosted 910.597 tourists who on average stayed nine days (spent over 800 USD per capita) totalling an estimated income of 744 million US dollars, according to Uruguay’s Deputy Secretary of Tourism and Sports Lilian Kechichian.
Wednesday, June 9th 2010 - 20:00 UTC
Brazil’s tightest presidential election formally takes off this weekend

Brazil’s most influential parties will be holding this week their national conventions, which is the previous step to the formal launching of the October presidential election campaign considered one of the tightest races in recent electoral history.
Wednesday, June 9th 2010 - 19:55 UTC
Busy May for South Georgia fisheries with good tooth-fish catches

May has been a busy month in the South Georgia Fishery, which opened on April 26th and catches have been good, according to the latest edition from the South Georgia newsletter.
Wednesday, June 9th 2010 - 19:35 UTC
Long time close friend of Gibraltar named Commons’ Deputy Speaker

Britain’ House of Commons Speaker John Bercow has unveiled his three deputies as Labour’s Chorley MP Lindsay Hoyle, Dawn Primarolo MP and, and Tory Ribble Valley MP Nigel Evans. The deputy speakers were elected by MPs in a secret ballot for the first time.
Wednesday, June 9th 2010 - 19:33 UTC
Top IMF official warns Asia to prepare for European developments’ consequences

Risks to the global economic outlook have “risen significantly” and policy makers have limited room to provide support to growth warned International Monetary Fund Deputy Managing Director Naoyuki Shinohara during a conference Wednesday in Singapore.
Wednesday, June 9th 2010 - 19:24 UTC
“Conditions not right yet” for Venezuela’s incorporation to Mercosur admits Paraguay

The Paraguayan government will not send do Congress the protocol for the incorporation to Venezuela to Mercosur because conditions for its approval are non existent yet, said the country’s Foreign Affairs minister Héctor Lacognata.