Stories for 2010

Wednesday, March 10th 2010 - 06:38 UTC
US and Brazil not interested in trade war and “ready to negotiate”

Visiting US Commerce Secretary Gary Locke said Tuesday that Washington was seeking talks with Brazil before it imposes retaliatory trade tariffs for US cotton subsidies the WTO ruled as discriminatory.
Wednesday, March 10th 2010 - 06:33 UTC
Mrs Kirchner escalates clash with Judiciary, implies censorship from the Court

Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner escalated Tuesday the clash with the Judiciary branch saying that when the magistrates call for “moderation”, the expression seems to rhyme with “censorship” since they don’t realize “the weight they hold”.
Wednesday, March 10th 2010 - 06:31 UTC
Hung parliament, likeliest outcome of UK election indicate opinion polls

No political party has enough support to win outright control of parliament in Britain's forthcoming election, raising the prospect of a period of unstable minority government, opinion polls showed.
Wednesday, March 10th 2010 - 06:28 UTC
Pro-Kirchner picket leader meets in Iran with fugitive from Argentine law

Argentine pro-government picket leader Luis D'Elía, justified his trip to Iran and his meeting with Mohsen Rabbani, a former Iranian official who is considered to be one of the masterminds in the 1994 deadly terrorist attack of the Buenos Aires AMIA Jewish centre and remains fugitive from the Argentine law.
Wednesday, March 10th 2010 - 06:26 UTC
China looks into developing vast resources of “combustible ice”

China's western Qinghai Province, containing major deposits of the country's “combustible ice,” will see increased explorations for this emerging clean energy, Provincial Governor Luo Huining said on Saturday quoted by Xinhua news agency.
Wednesday, March 10th 2010 - 05:49 UTC
Argentina’s YPF imports fuel to meet demand for the first time in 30 years

Argentine-Spanish oil company YPF said on Tuesday that it plans to import 50 million litres of gasoline as demand outstrips supply. Argentina, an oil-producing country where fuel is subject to government price controls, has not imported gasoline in 30 years.
Wednesday, March 10th 2010 - 05:46 UTC
Brazil expects second best crop this year with 145.1 million tons

Brazil will harvest a grain crop of 145.1 million tons this year, a volume very close to the record 145.8 million tons of 2008, said the government’s statistics office, IBGE on the basis of February field data.
Wednesday, March 10th 2010 - 00:42 UTC
Germany wants “Graf Spee” Nazi eagle displayed in a museum

German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle called Tuesday for wreckage from a Nazi-era warship recovered off the coast of Uruguay to be displayed in a museum rather than auctioned to the public.
Wednesday, March 10th 2010 - 00:39 UTC
Brazilian former political prisoners call for creation of Truth Commission

A group of former radical militants that were viciously tortured during the Brazilian military regime (1964/1985) supported the creation of a Truth Commission to unveil human rights violations, during a ceremony at the Ministry of Justice in Brasilia.
Tuesday, March 9th 2010 - 23:24 UTC
Bachelet retained her position as “the most loved leader” by Chileans

A public opinion poll with the purpose of gauging support for Chilean President Michelle Bachelet in the last days of her government, after the devastating earthquake, showed that her standing remains intact at 84%, like in February.