Stories for 2011

Saturday, March 26th 2011 - 08:06 UTC
Chile further opens its market to US beef and beef products

United States Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and US Trade Representative Ron Kirk announced this week that US producers are now eligible to ship a larger array of US beef and beef products to Chile.
Saturday, March 26th 2011 - 08:03 UTC
Canada export development agency helps boost trade with Latin America by 40%

Canada’s Export Development agency, (EDC) announced a 40% increase in its Latin American business volumes in 2010, reaching a record 10 billion Canadian dollars.
Saturday, March 26th 2011 - 07:45 UTC
HMS Gloucester returns to Portsmouth from Falklands on her final homecoming

HRH The Duchess of Gloucester joined Type-42 destroyer HMS Gloucester as she sailed back into Portsmouth Friday from her seven-month deployment to the South Atlantic patrolling Falklands and South Georgia Island waters.
Saturday, March 26th 2011 - 07:35 UTC
Ecological disaster in Tristan da Cunha: penguins and lobster at risk plus threat of rats

A race to rescue up to 20,000 endangered northern Rockhopper penguins from an oil spill in an isolated South Atlantic British island group was under way this week after a cargo ship ran aground.
Saturday, March 26th 2011 - 07:24 UTC
US economy expands 3.1% in fourth quarter and totals 2.9% in 2010

The United States economy grew more quickly than previously estimated in the fourth quarter as businesses maintained fairly solid spending and restocked shelves to meet rising demand, while corporate profits increased 3.3%, a government report showed.
Friday, March 25th 2011 - 16:50 UTC
Uruguay celebrates 40 years of the ruling coalition with Lula da Silva

Uruguay’s ruling coalition is celebrating its fortieth anniversary with a massive political rally in downtown Montevideo where the main speaker will be the former Brazilian president Lula da Silva.
Friday, March 25th 2011 - 09:23 UTC
Nato agrees to take command from the US in enforcing no-fly zone over Libya

Nato has agreed to take command of enforcing the no-fly zone over Libya from the US. But Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen made clear that other aspects of the operation would remain in the hands of the current coalition for now.
Friday, March 25th 2011 - 09:19 UTC
Syria pledges to introduce reforms to meet protestor’s demands

Syrian leaders have pledged to introduce reforms to meet the demands of protesters, after days of violence in the southern city of Deraa. Officials promised to study the need for lifting the state of emergency, in place since 1963.
Friday, March 25th 2011 - 04:15 UTC
Argentina recalls 35 years of one of its darkest periods in recent history

Thousands of Argentines took to the streets of Buenos Aires and other cities Thursday evening under the slogan “Memory, truth and justice” to evoke 35 years of the last military coup that left a toll of an estimated 30.000 killed and disappeared detainees.
Friday, March 25th 2011 - 02:17 UTC
Academic seminar in Paraguay to celebrate 20 years of Mercosur

An academic seminar “20 years of Mercosur” will be the main celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the South American trade block, unable to convene political figures from the four full member countries to commemorate the 26 March 1991 founding charter or Asuncion Treaty.