Stories for October 2010

Monday, October 25th 2010 - 21:07 UTC
Rescued miners honoured at presidential palace in Santiago

The 33 miners saved from underground hell in Chile have been honored as heroes at the presidential palace, but have lost out at soccer against a team of rescuers captained by President Sebastian Piñera.
Monday, October 25th 2010 - 20:50 UTC
Uruguay’s official cruise season begins November 13; 197 calls anticipated

Next November 13 the Holland America Line “Veendam” will be calling in Montevideo with 1.400 passengers signalling the official beginning of the cruise season in Uruguay expected to extend until April 4.
Monday, October 25th 2010 - 03:49 UTC
Petrobras Confirms Tupi Field Could Hold 8 Billion Barrels

Brazilian state-controlled energy giant Petrobras said Friday that the drilling of a new exploratory well at the offshore Tupi field confirms potential recoverable reserves of between 5-8 billion barrels of oil equivalent.
Monday, October 25th 2010 - 03:28 UTC
PM Cameron: Cuts Are Right And Hit Rich Hardest

David Cameron has again defended his Government's spending cuts, insisting they are “fair” with society's richest shouldering the greatest burden.
Monday, October 25th 2010 - 03:18 UTC
Haiti: A devastated country in the time of cholera

With few signs of recovery nine months after Haiti’s earthquake, the country’s government and its main foreign-aid donors were forced to tout a rather underwhelming achievement—the absence of water-borne diseases like typhoid, diphtheria and cholera—as evidence of progress.
Monday, October 25th 2010 - 02:55 UTC
US says China is “committed” to allow the Yuan to appreciate

United States Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has said he believes China is now “committed” to allowing the Yuan to go up in value. Mr Geithner made the comment in a TV interview before he held talks with China's Vice-Premier, Wang Qishan.
Monday, October 25th 2010 - 02:45 UTC
California voters support undocumented immigrants as “advantageous”

California voters have an overall positive opinion about immigrants and support those undocumented aliens who have been working in the state for years should be able to remain and go on with their lives.
Monday, October 25th 2010 - 02:39 UTC
Controversy in Bolivia about the country’s proven gas reserves

According to a recent audit commissioned by the Bolivian government and conducted by US-based consulting firm Ryder Scott allegedly shows that the country has only 8.3 trillion cubic feet of proven gas reserves, sharply lower than the range of 12.8 trillion to 26.7 trillion that has appeared in contradictory official versions.
Monday, October 25th 2010 - 02:33 UTC
Serra promises “substantial” changes to relations with Mercosur if elected president

Brazil’s presidential opposition candidate Jose Serra promised substantial changes to the country’s foreign policy if elected next Sunday. He specifically mentioned Brazil’s lobbying for a seat at the UN Security Council, the functioning of Mercosur and relations with Cuba and Iran.
Sunday, October 24th 2010 - 03:00 UTC
The Economist prefers Jose Serra as a better president but admits the inevitable

Nevertheless it admits that Dilma Rousseff, with the help from outgoing president Lula da Silva, (and his extraordinary political gifts and innate pragmatism), will most probably be the winner.