Stories for 2011

Thursday, August 4th 2011 - 02:49 UTC
Malvinas veterans ask for anthropologists to identify Argentine soldiers buried at Darwin cemetery

A Centre of Malvinas War Veterans and next of kin presented a petition before a federal court requesting the identification of Argentine combatants buried at the Darwin Cemetery in the Falkland Islands and the circumstances of their death during the South Atlantic conflict in 1982.
Thursday, August 4th 2011 - 02:10 UTC
Argentine Justice blind-trust rented apartments used as brothels

An Argentine Supreme Court justice faces a possible ethics investigation for renting out apartments used for prostitution. Justice Eugenio Zaffaroni has said he had no idea that six of his 15 rental properties were being used as brothels.
Thursday, August 4th 2011 - 02:06 UTC
French pilots cease cooperation in crash inquiry on dispute over causes

French pilots on Wednesday suspended cooperation with an inquiry into the 2009 crash of an Air France jet as a dispute over the causes of the disaster opened deep wounds in France's prestigious aeronautics industry.
Thursday, August 4th 2011 - 02:00 UTC
Chile’s government begins to react to disapproval rating of 64%

In the last week, Chile’s conservative government has made two surprisingly liberal announcements, explained in part by the latest public opinion polls. First, President Sebastián Piñera announced Sunday that he was open to making quality education a constitutional right, just two weeks after he called education a “consumer good”.
Wednesday, August 3rd 2011 - 22:27 UTC
UK Commons Defence Select Committee warns about level of military cuts

Senior British MPs launched on Wednesday their latest stinging attack on the UK government’s defence cuts, saying they could leave the military overstretched, reports the Portsmouth press.
Wednesday, August 3rd 2011 - 22:11 UTC
“Buy Brazil Act” and Super Real are here to stay, says Minister

Brazil's strong currency (the so-called Super Real) is here to stay, and businesses have to get used to this new environment, said Trade and Industry Minister Fernando Pimentel a day after the government announced a massive industry support program which was described is the equivalent of the US “Buy America Act”
Wednesday, August 3rd 2011 - 22:06 UTC
IDB approves a financial support plan of 1.8 billion dollars for Uruguay

The Inter American Development Bank, IDB, approved this week a new country ambitious strategy with Uruguay with a financial plan for the period 2010–2015 of up to 1.8 billion dollars of for sovereign-guaranteed loans.
Wednesday, August 3rd 2011 - 22:02 UTC
Uruguay’s second pulp project receives 200 million loan from IDB

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) approved a 200 million dollars loan for Uruguay’s second major pulp mill investment, Celulosa y Energía Punta Pereira S.A. and Zona Franca Punta Pereira S.A., belonging to the Montes del Plata Group.
Wednesday, August 3rd 2011 - 06:58 UTC
CFK and Mujica underline ‘importance of dialogue’ and overcoming conflicts

President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, CFK, underlined the importance of dialogue between Argentina and Uruguay which enable to overcome ‘conflicts’, while her Uruguayan peer Jose Mujica said that the “good neighbours” policy is the only way forward and a win-win situation for both sides.
Wednesday, August 3rd 2011 - 06:53 UTC
China Dagong agency downgrades US credit rating from A+ to A with negative outlook

Chinese rating agency Dagong Global Credit Rating Co. said Wednesday it has cut the credit rating of the United States from A+ to A with a negative outlook after the U.S. federal government announced that the country's debt limit would be increased.