MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for September 1st 2010
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Wednesday, September 1st 2010 - 02:44 UTC
UK and US media blast the Kirchners for attempting “to lock-hold the press”
British daily Financial Times ran an op-ed Tuesday morning blasting Argentina’s presidential couple for their attempt to “secure a lock-hold on Argentina’s press,” and accusing them of mirroring the “black arts” tactics of the Mexican Institutional Revolutionary party.
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Wednesday, September 1st 2010 - 02:13 UTC
Timerman visits Paraguay, announces two new bridges linking with Argentina
Argentina’s Foreign Affaire minister Hector Timerman announced Tuesday in Asuncion the construction of two new bridges linking Argentina with Paraguay and the upgrading of an existing one.
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Wednesday, September 1st 2010 - 01:49 UTC
Fidel admits ‘full responsibility’ for the ‘unjust’ persecution of gays and lesbians
Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro acknowledges the persecution of gays and lesbians during the Revolution, according to an interview published Tuesday in the Mexican newspaper La Jornada.
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Wednesday, September 1st 2010 - 00:43 UTC
Canada, South Africa, India in preliminary trade talks with Mercosur
Canada, South Africa and India are scheduled to begin this year trade talks with Mercosur, according to reports from Ottawa and Johannesburg.
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Wednesday, September 1st 2010 - 00:36 UTC
London denies UK and France could share aircraft carriers
The UK Ministry of Defence has confirmed that Defence Secretary Liam Fox is to meet his French counterpart to discuss further defence co-operation. But a senior MoD source has told the BBC there are no plans for the two countries to share aircraft carriers.
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Wednesday, September 1st 2010 - 00:31 UTC
Amorim admits Brazil imposes non-trade barriers to its Mercosur associates
Foreign Affairs minister Celos Amorim implicitly admitted that access to the Brazilian market for other Latin American countries, including Mercosur, is not easy because of a proliferation of non trade barriers which has resulted in large surpluses with most of the region’s countries.
