MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for March 15th 2012
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Thursday, March 15th 2012 - 02:52 UTC
Cristina Fernandez censors television program; former CNN reporter privileged witness
A former CNN in Spanish journalist Alberto Padilla was a privileged witness of censorship in Argentina, minutes before he was to be interviewed by a television channel in Buenos Aires: “the order to stop the program came directly from (Federal planning) minister De Vido”.
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Thursday, March 15th 2012 - 00:40 UTC
US-Canada and EU agree to end ‘beef war’; Brussels grants 48.000 tons quota
European Parliament has backed a deal that will increase EU imports of beef from the US and Canada and help European food exporters. A row over growth hormones used on North American cattle ranches led to a trade war lasting more than 20 years.
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Thursday, March 15th 2012 - 00:28 UTC
UK youth unemployment at its highest in two decades: 22.5%
United Kingdom’s unemployment rate held at a 13-year high of 8.4% in the three months to January, and the youth unemployment rate rose to a record high, official data showed Wednesday.
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Thursday, March 15th 2012 - 00:23 UTC
All but four of US main banks pass ‘strain test’; Citi among the failed
All but four of 19 major United States banks got a green light yesterday to boost dividends and buy back shares after the Federal Reserve declared them strong enough to survive another serious recession.
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Thursday, March 15th 2012 - 00:17 UTC
With soaring beef prices cattle rustling is an industry in the Canadian prairies
A rope and a good sturdy branch are no longer an option, or an effective deterrent for the lowlife curs stealing cows in the Canadian province of Alberta. Cattle rustling still occur in the not-so-wild west, with more than 6.000 head stolen annually by thieves prowling the prairies for heifers to heist and sell.
