Stories for January 2012

Tuesday, January 17th 2012 - 06:41 UTC
Argentine government and Moyano try to set ground rules for future relationship

In another round of the ongoing battle between the Argentina government and the leader of organized labour Hugo Moyano, Interior Minister Florencio Randazzo stated that “if the union leaders are really representatives of the working class, there is no possibility of a divorce between the CGT Labour Confederation and the national government”.
Tuesday, January 17th 2012 - 06:38 UTC
Volcanic ashes again isolate Argentine ski and summer resort causing massive losses

The presence of a cloud of ash caused by a volcano in Chile has again closed an airport in neighbouring Argentina just days after it had re-opened anticipating massive losses for the tourism and the resort’s finances.
Tuesday, January 17th 2012 - 06:35 UTC
Australian experts link carbon dioxide emissions effects on fish brain and nervous system

Rising human carbon dioxide emissions may be affecting the brains and central nervous systems of sea fish, with serious consequences for their survival, according to Australian research.
Monday, January 16th 2012 - 19:32 UTC
Falklands’ conflict gunner meets Skyhawk pilot he shot down, at his home in Argentina

A Royal Navy veteran from the Falklands War has completed an extraordinary journey to meet the Argentine pilot he thought he had shot down and killed during the 1982 conflict.
Monday, January 16th 2012 - 19:29 UTC
Landless peasants with 80 families occupy and take over farm in north of Uruguay

The landless peasants’ movement has reached Uruguay: the self called “shaggy” ones with eighty families, have taken over a 400 hectares farm in the extreme north of the country Artigas, and have been occupying the land since.
Monday, January 16th 2012 - 19:20 UTC
Minister recalls Captain Scott’s South Pole feat and heralds work of UK polar scientists

On the eve of the centenary of Royal Navy Captain Robert Scott reaching the South Pole, Foreign Office Minister Henry Bellingham has heralded the work of British polar scientists in helping to shape the understanding needed for managing climate change and contributing to the UK’s work for the peaceful protection of Antarctica.
Monday, January 16th 2012 - 19:19 UTC
Gibraltar cancels stamp issue with Israel considered ‘politically unstable’ by London

The former GSD government cancelled plans to issue a stamp with Israel because the design was ‘politically unacceptable’ to the UK. The stamp was to be released by the postal services of Gibraltar and Israel and carried an image of the Rock on one half and the King David citadel on the other.
Monday, January 16th 2012 - 18:30 UTC
Chile with 50% hydro power by 2034, but serious energy shortages in 2015

President Sebastián Piñera announced a 20-year plan for Chile’s energy needs at the annual energy dinner in front of the country’s top executives in the electricity sector. The president said the plan aims to create “a cleaner energy, that is safer, more economical and that agrees with the energy requirements of our country.”
Monday, January 16th 2012 - 07:32 UTC
Latin America focused on trade and development, not the Falklands, says Hague

UK Foreign Secretary William Hague said that it is important to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Falkland Islands conflict, but aside from some sabre rattling from Argentina, the rest of Latin America is interested in trade and development.
Monday, January 16th 2012 - 07:28 UTC
Hague this week becomes the first Foreign Secretary in six years to visit Brazil

This week William Hague becomes the first Foreign Secretary in six years to travel to Brazil. Hague was scheduled to visit Brazil last year, but was prevented by the swiftly-moving events of the Arab Spring and in that time Brazil overtook Britain to become the sixth largest economy in the world.