Stories for October 2011

Saturday, October 22nd 2011 - 04:27 UTC
Unasur receives United Nations Observer Status

The Union of South American Nations (Unasur) received the observer status in the UN General Assembly after the committee of judicial affairs of the organization unanimously approved its request.
Saturday, October 22nd 2011 - 04:26 UTC
CFK poised for landslide victory and control of the congress on Sunday

Argentine president Cristina Fernandez (CFK) should be comfortably re-elected Sunday with a landslide victory which according to the latest public opinion polls indicate a support ranging from 52% to 55%
Saturday, October 22nd 2011 - 04:24 UTC
Booming regional dairy industry will meet in Uruguay to talk expansion plans

The Pan-American Milk Federation, Frepale, is scheduled to meet in Uruguay next November 15/17 to celebrate its twentieth anniversary. The federation, the strongest in the region chose Punta del Este for the event because it was here that it was born two decades ago.
Saturday, October 22nd 2011 - 04:23 UTC
Bolivia’s Morales yields to Amazon Indian protests and scraps plan to build highway

President Evo Morales said Friday that he was scrapping plans to build a highway through a nature reserve in Bolivia's jungle lowlands, bowing to public pressure after a two-month protest march by Amazon Indians.
Saturday, October 22nd 2011 - 00:43 UTC
Mercosur and EU will be ready to exchange trade proposals ‘in June 2012’

Mercosur and the European Union are committed to presenting their proposals with list of products for a free trade agreement in June 2012, announced on Friday Uruguay’s Foreign Affaire minister Luis Almagro.
Saturday, October 22nd 2011 - 00:42 UTC
Doctor who warned of Chavez serious health condition abandons Venezuela with his family

The Venezuelan doctor who forecast President Hugo Chavez had two years left because of the aggressiveness of his pelvic cancer said on Friday he had left the country with his family after colleagues reported police visiting his consultancy.
Saturday, October 22nd 2011 - 00:40 UTC
Blatter announces anti-corruption plan and ‘good governance committee’

FIFA president Sepp Blatter announced his long-awaited anti-corruption plan Friday including a pledge to re-open the case into the collapse of former marketing partner ISL.
Saturday, October 22nd 2011 - 00:39 UTC
France and Germany debt crisis rift; program for a second Euro summit

France's push to use more European Central Bank money to fight the Euro zone debt crisis has run into strong resistance from Germany and other EU partners, leaving Paris increasingly isolated before a crucial summit.
Saturday, October 22nd 2011 - 00:38 UTC
NATO seven-month ‘United Protector’ campaign in Libya comes to an end this month

NATO plans to end its seven-month air and sea campaign in Libya at the end of October, Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Friday, the day after the death of Muammar Gaddafi.
Saturday, October 22nd 2011 - 00:37 UTC
Obama announces end of war in Iraq and will pull out troops by end of the year

President Barack Obama vowed to pull all US troops from Iraq this year, symbolically ending the war but dashing US hopes of leaving a few thousand troops to buttress a still shaky Iraq and offset neighbouring Iran's influence.