Stories for August 25th 2011

Thursday, August 25th 2011 - 06:47 UTC
Unasur agrees to greater economic coordination but remains divided on Libya

Union of South American Nations, Unasur, Foreign Affairs ministers agreed Wednesday in Buenos Aires to increase economic coordination and send monitoring missions to regional elections but could not reach a common position on the Libyan situation.
Thursday, August 25th 2011 - 06:42 UTC
Thousands of tons of undistributed food had to be destroyed in Venezuela

Venezuelan opposition lawmaker Neidy Rosal claimed before the country’s Prosecutors Office that an estimated 160.000 tons of food, in decomposing conditions, were being destroyed by the government’s Food Production and Distribution Office, Pvdal, in the state of Carabobo.
Thursday, August 25th 2011 - 06:33 UTC
HMS Edinburgh visits South Georgia to test land and sea forces

HMS Edinburgh visited this month South Georgia as part of her six-month South Atlantic and Falkland Islands duties which included training soldiers in a cold weather environment and give sailors the chance under such challenging conditions.
Thursday, August 25th 2011 - 06:31 UTC
Mexican billionaire Slim boosts stakes in Saks and New York Times

Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim spent 8.8 million dollars to boost his stakes in Saks Inc. and New York Times adding to his biggest US holdings as the stock market slumped last week. Saks gained the most in almost a year.
Thursday, August 25th 2011 - 06:28 UTC
Argentine steel group Techint begins arbitration proceedings against Venezuela

Steel giant Tenaris, a member of the Argentine group Techint, said on Wednesday that it initiated arbitration proceedings against Venezuela following the nationalization of steelmaker Matesi.
Thursday, August 25th 2011 - 06:26 UTC
Australian entomologists find cheap way of neutralizing dengue virus mosquitoes

By infecting mosquitoes with bacteria from flies that commonly live in kitchen fruit bowls, researchers have stopped the insects spreading the dengue virus.
Thursday, August 25th 2011 - 06:13 UTC
Growing dissent in German government over ECB purchase of sovereign bonds

The German president has fueled concerns of a split in Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats after he criticized a move by the European Central Bank to resume buying Italian and Spanish sovereign bonds.
Thursday, August 25th 2011 - 06:08 UTC
Canada to overhaul and expand Argentine nuclear power plant

Argentina signed contracts worth 444 million dollars on Wednesday with a subsidiary of SNC-Lavalin Group, Canada's top engineering firm, to extend the shelf-life of its Embalse nuclear plant.
Thursday, August 25th 2011 - 06:04 UTC
Gibraltar territorial waters dispute postponed at least until after November

Spain’s Foreign Minister Trinidad Jimenz has confirmed that there will be no further tripartite talks regarding Gibraltar whilst the dispute on issues related to sovereignty of Gibraltar territorial waters continues.
Thursday, August 25th 2011 - 06:01 UTC
World’s largest camera to survey 300 galaxies from an observatory in north Chile

“The camera that we built is really very similar to the digital cameras you can buy at Walmart or wherever” Brenna Flaughter told US National Public Radio. “But this camera is big — its guts fill a shiny cylinder that's about the size of a car engine”.