Stories for 2011

Monday, February 28th 2011 - 01:09 UTC
LAN raises international air fares between 8% and 12%

Chile’s main airline LAN announced Friday it would raise its international air fares by between 8 and 12” because of higher global oil prices.
Monday, February 28th 2011 - 00:22 UTC
NZ abandons search for Norwegian yacht with three men missing in Antarctic waters

A week-long search for a Norwegian yacht missing in Antarctic waters with three men aboard has been abandoned, New Zealand's Rescue Co-ordination Centre announced Monday.
Monday, February 28th 2011 - 00:09 UTC
Mercosur researchers create robot to identify drought and disease resistant soybeans

A robot which categorizes soy bean plants according to their capacity to resist drought and make better use of the water resource has been developed by a bio-technology group of Mercosur researchers in Argentina, with European Union support.
Monday, February 28th 2011 - 00:00 UTC
Warm weather prevents full use of costly Australian Antarctica airfield

An Australian airfield in Antarctica at a cost of 40 million US dollars and which was opened just three years ago may have become a short-lived victim of climate change, as unusually warm weather this summer has prevented flights landing there.
Sunday, February 27th 2011 - 23:23 UTC
Cuba elected as vice-president of the UN Special Committee on Decolonization

Cuba was elected last week vice president of the United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization, also known as the Committee of the 24, exclusively in charge of promoting a decolonization agenda.
Sunday, February 27th 2011 - 23:19 UTC
Former Obama aid elected Chicago mayor; ends 40 years of Daley-family dominance

Former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel was elected mayor of Chicago in the most competitive city hall election in more than two decades. Emanuel, who is also a former congressman, trumped five rivals with 55% of the vote.
Sunday, February 27th 2011 - 23:14 UTC
China plans to build 45 new airports in the next five years

China plans to build at least 45 new airports in the next five years to serve booming travel, the top industry regulator said last week.
Sunday, February 27th 2011 - 23:10 UTC
India interested in reaching out to Latin America and Mercosur

India is reaching out to emerging markets and Latin America, and more precisely Mercosur is a strategic priority, said India’s Minister for Commerce and Industry Jyotiraditya Scindia addressing the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) India-Uruguay business conference that hosted a large Uruguayan business delegation led by the country’s Vice-President, Danilo Astori.
Sunday, February 27th 2011 - 23:08 UTC
ANCAP contracts 50.000 km areo-magnetic survey of the Uruguayan offshore

Uruguay government owned oil company ANCAP contracted the international company Fugro for the provision of geophysical services covering a complete aero-magnetic survey of the River Plate area and Atlantic Ocean where Uruguay is about to launch a hydrocarbons exploratory round.
Saturday, February 26th 2011 - 10:37 UTC
Falklands Facts

In his reply of 19 February to my letter of the 12th, Mr. Cisneros says “the worst thing we can do is quibble and distract ourselves from the main problem”. But it is not a “quibble” to state simple facts, as I did in my letter. So I suggest we get a few facts straight – not unilateral facts, but straightforward historical facts.