Stories for 2010

Monday, June 14th 2010 - 04:27 UTC
Serra blasts Lula da Silva’s foreign policy in ‘support of dictators’

Brazil can’t continue to support dictators and regimes that ignore human rights, said opposition presidential hopeful during the Brazilian Social Democracy Party, PSDB, national convention that confirmed him as his grouping’s candidate for October 3.
Monday, June 14th 2010 - 04:24 UTC
Rousseff promises a Lula da Silva tailored Brazil with a woman’s heart and soul

President Lula da Silva’s former cabinet chief Dilma Rousseff was officially proclaimed Sunday as the ruling Workers’ Party presidential candidate for the coming October elections.
Monday, June 14th 2010 - 04:21 UTC
India’s giant iron ore project in Bolivia stalled; China also interested

Bolivia and India’s Jindal Steel & Power one of the world’s leading steel manufacturers are scheduled to sign an addendum to the contract for the exploitation of the Mutún iron ore reserves with the purpose of unlocking the “lack of investments” according to Mines minister Jose Pimentel.
Monday, June 14th 2010 - 04:17 UTC
Cuba for the first time names agronomist as Minister of Agriculture

Cuba has removed General Ulises Rosales Toro as agricultural minister and made him a technical adviser for the island's sugar, agricultural and food production industries. A government statement Saturday characterized the move as a promotion for Rosales. He remains a member of the powerful Politburo.
Monday, June 14th 2010 - 04:15 UTC
Santos is forecasted to win next Sunday by a wide margin

Colombian incumbent presidential candidate Juan Manuel Santos is poised for an overwhelming victory in next Sunday’s runoff according to the latest public opinion polls published Sunday in Bogotá’s main newspapers.
Monday, June 14th 2010 - 04:08 UTC
Colombian forces liberate two top police forces help as hostages for 12 years

The Colombian military on Sunday rescued Gen. Luis Mendieta and Col. Enrique Murillo, two top national police officers held by the FARC guerrillas for nearly 12 years, President Alvaro Uribe announced.
Monday, June 14th 2010 - 04:04 UTC
Viral epidemic for third year in a row ravages French oyster farms

French oyster-growers are facing ruin because of a viral epidemic that for a third year in a row has been wiping out millions of baby shellfish. From the Mediterranean coast to the bay of Arcachon on the Atlantic and now Brittany, farmers have been watching in dismay in recent weeks as the virus once again moved northwards, keeping pace with the rising sea temperature.
Monday, June 14th 2010 - 04:00 UTC
Russia became world’s leading oil producer in 2009 ahead of Saudi Arabia

Russia overtook Saudi Arabia to become the world's leading oil producer in 2009, while global oil consumption fell the most since 1982, BP has said. According to the oil giant's latest Statistical Review of World Energy, Russia increased oil production by 1.5% in 2009, claiming a 12.9% market share.
Monday, June 14th 2010 - 03:58 UTC
Protestors receive Falklands’ bound Lan Chile flight in Rio Gallegos

As had been anticipated a dissident group of Malvinas veterans protested at the Argentine airport of Rio Gallegos during the Saturday stop over of the weekly Lan Chile flight to the Falkland Islands.
Monday, June 14th 2010 - 03:52 UTC
“I’m running again but my name now is Dilma Roussef” said Lula da Silva

President Lula da Silva said that this coming October election will be the first since 1985 that his name won’ figure, “but to fill that void I will change my name and I will call myself Dilma Rousseff”.