Stories for 2011

Thursday, September 1st 2011 - 01:55 UTC
Piñera to address Chilean students’ demands on Saturday in Government House

After much deliberation, Chilean Education Minister Felipe Bulnes agreed to meet with student leaders this Saturday, Sept. 3, to discuss their demands. The meeting is to take place in the La Moneda presidential palace, and will be hosted by President Sebastián Piñera himself.
Thursday, September 1st 2011 - 01:26 UTC
Germany against airports full-body scanners following false readings

The German government has backed down on plans to install full-body security scanners at airports around the country after the devices reportedly performed poorly during a 10-month testing phase.
Thursday, September 1st 2011 - 01:21 UTC
The Brazilian population reached 192.37 million on July first

The Brazilian population grew by 1.62 million between 2010 and 2011 according to the latest data from the country’s Geography and Statistics Institute, IBGE, which means that on July first the total number of inhabitants was 192.37 million.
Thursday, September 1st 2011 - 01:13 UTC
S&P upgrades Paraguay’s rating on greater revenue from the Itaipú dam

Standard & Poor's ratings services upgraded Mercosur member Paraguay's credit status a notch after the country reached an agreement with neighboring Brazil to take more revenue from the shared Itaipú hydroelectric complex, the world’s largest operational dam.
Wednesday, August 31st 2011 - 21:29 UTC
Controversy over US highest paid CEOs and taxes paid by their companies

The 25 highest paid US chief executives earned more last year than their companies paid in federal income tax, a study has said. The average annual remuneration of the 25 bosses was 16.7 million dollars, the left leaning think tank Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) found.
Wednesday, August 31st 2011 - 21:24 UTC
Merkel bets she can convince ruling coalition sceptics to further support the Euro

German Chancellor Angela Merkel's cabinet approved Wednesday new powers for the Euro zone's bailout fund, kicking off a month-long battle to convince sceptics in her conservative camp to back efforts to contain the bloc's crisis.
Wednesday, August 31st 2011 - 21:21 UTC
US grain farmers furious with Argentina and Canada advance in the Colombia market

Argentina has rapidly displaced the US as the main supplier to Colombia of corn and in near future wheat, with volumes soaring from 99.000 tons in 2007 to over 2.2 million tons currently, points out Agrimoney.
Wednesday, August 31st 2011 - 21:17 UTC
US consumers’ confidence plummets to lowest since April 2009 on jobs concern

The confidence of US consumers in the country’s economy fell sharply in August and reached its lowest level since April 2009, The Conference Board reported on Tuesday, attributing the decline in part to the lengthy congressional negotiations to raise the debt limit.
Wednesday, August 31st 2011 - 21:12 UTC
Investigation exposes Canadian mining industry bribing in Mexico

Canadian police are investigating a Calgary-based mining firm for allegedly bribing a mayor in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas to protect a barite mine.
Wednesday, August 31st 2011 - 19:49 UTC
US doctors performed STD experiments with Guatemala patients killing at least 83

Medical experiments performed by United States doctors deliberately infected more than 1,000 Guatemalans vulnerable patients with syphilis and gonorrhoea in the late 1940s, killing 83 of them, a US presidential panel said this week.