Stories for July 2011

Monday, July 18th 2011 - 10:22 UTC
US congress closer to deal on debt-ceiling but with Obama paying the political cost

United States government and opposition senators are crafting a plan that could avert an unprecedented US government default if by next 2 August the national debt limit is not raised.
Monday, July 18th 2011 - 10:04 UTC
Animal rights organizations claim Japan is corrupting the Whaling Commission

Animal rights organizations claim Japan has been handing out generous grants to African, Caribbean and Pacific countries to support turning the International Whaling Commission into a “toothless paper tiger” undermining the whaling-moratorium.
Monday, July 18th 2011 - 08:59 UTC
Chavez delegates some powers to his Vice-president and Finance minister

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez delegated some powers to his vice president and finance minister on Saturday, hours before a planned departure to Cuba for cancer treatment.
Monday, July 18th 2011 - 08:50 UTC
Brazil launched the construction of four Scorpene-class attack submarines

The construction of four diesel powered Scorpene-class attack submarines for the Brazilian Navy was launched on Saturday at a plant near Rio de Janeiro.
Monday, July 18th 2011 - 08:44 UTC
Iran ready to help investigate 1994 bombing in Buenos Aires of Jewish centre

Argentina on Sunday welcomed an offer from Iran to help investigate the 1994 bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish centre that killed 85 people and which local prosecutors blame on Iranian officials.
Monday, July 18th 2011 - 08:35 UTC
Uruguay’s former president turned dictator Bordaberry (83) dies under home arrest

Juan Maria Bordaberry, the elected president who turned dictator in 1973 by supporting a military coup and opening the way for twelve years of military rule, died Sunday while under house arrest.
Sunday, July 17th 2011 - 01:12 UTC
Uruguay: “The spoiler beat the favourite”

Uruguay broke Argentina's hearts, beating the hosts 5-4 on penalties to book a Copa America semi-final with Peru after Carlos Tevez missed the crucial spotkick.
Saturday, July 16th 2011 - 17:19 UTC
Clarin group heirs DNA-test negative to 1975/76 families, victims of dictatorship

DNA tests on the adopted children of Argentina’s most powerful media family have failed to show any matches in a national gene bank where families of victims of the dictatorship (1976/1983) have donated their DNA.
Saturday, July 16th 2011 - 17:16 UTC
World’s oldest and fiercest derby in South American football history

The Argentine province of Santa Fe will be the coliseum for South America’s oldest and fiercest derby when the locals meet Uruguay in the quarter finals of the Americas Cup. Both teams arrive with an unsatisfactory record in the current competition and are expected to make the most to ensure they reach the finals.
Saturday, July 16th 2011 - 07:25 UTC
Move closer to Brazil politically and economically, says US Foreign Relations Council

Influential foreign policy experts at the New York based Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) think the United States should move closer to Brazil politically and economically and recommend the creation of a Brazilian affairs office at the National Security Council.