MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for August 30th 2011
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Tuesday, August 30th 2011 - 03:47 UTC
New York City recovering from Irene, but Vermont ravaged by flood waters
Although hurricane Irene crossed into Canada overnight Sunday but wasn't yet through with the United States, where flood waters in Vermont caused the greatest damage in 75 years and in New York state big city commuters had to make do with slowly reawakening transit systems.
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Tuesday, August 30th 2011 - 03:44 UTC
Chilean judge investigating Carabineros over killing of student
An officer from Chile’s gendarmerie-police, Carabineros was asked to resign Monday after admitting to using his firearm in the Macul borough of Santiago near where 16-year-old Manuel Gutiérrez Reinoso was shot and killed Thursday night.
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Tuesday, August 30th 2011 - 03:42 UTC
Business leaders and organized labour ignore Argentina’s official inflation index
Following the agreement which raised the Argentine minimum wage by 25%, equivalent to 549 dollars per month, business leaders and representatives from the labour unions admitted that when it comes to salaries negotiations the official inflation index from the government statistics office, Indec, “is not taken into account”.
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Tuesday, August 30th 2011 - 03:40 UTC
Falklands’ veteran HMS York under command of possibly her last captain
The man who may be Royal Navy’s Falklands’ veteran HMS York’s last naval captain has taken the helm of the Type 42 destroyer. Commander Rex Cox took over from Commander Simon Staley as the warship undergoes maintenance at Portsmouth, reports The Press from York.
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Tuesday, August 30th 2011 - 03:39 UTC
Argentina expects another car production record next year: a million units
The Argentine automobile industry will expand its production capacity to a million units annually by 2012 following on the expected record production of 840.000 this year boosted by domestic demand and exports to brazil, said Anibal Borderes president of the country’s Automobile Manufacturers Association, Adefa.
