MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for April 12th 2012
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Thursday, April 12th 2012 - 05:42 UTC
Montevideo ready for Paul McCartney’s On the Run show next Sunday
Former Beatle Paul McCartney begins next Sunday in Uruguay his On the run tour of Latin America that ends next 8 May in Mexico City. Montevideo authorities have announced Sir Paul, in his first visit to Uruguay, will be declared ‘illustrious citizen’.
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Thursday, April 12th 2012 - 05:33 UTC
FIFA ranks Uruguay among the world’s three best football national teams
Uruguay’s national football team makes history and for the first time climbs to third position in FIFA’s listing, behind Spain, which continues to lead and Germany that replaced Holland and is now in position four.
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Thursday, April 12th 2012 - 03:05 UTC
Major industrial action threatens Argentine ports at harvest export peak
The Argentine maritime workers union, SOMU, decided not to work overtime, a measure which affects most ports from inland Rosario on the Paraná River to Bahía Blanca on the South Atlantic, when thousands of trucks are lined up with the summer harvest.
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Thursday, April 12th 2012 - 01:30 UTC
Argentina insists the “Malvinas issue” will be discussed at the Americas summit
Argentina’s sovereignty claim over the Falklands/Malvinas will be addressed during the Sixth Summit of the Americas this weekend in Colombia, where 33 heads of state and government are scheduled to meet, said Colombian Foreign Affairs minister Maria Angela Holguin.
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Thursday, April 12th 2012 - 01:28 UTC
Joint poll shows ‘Falklands/Malvinas’ issue is ‘important’ for Argentines, but only ‘relevant’ for Brits
Argentines give more importance than the British to the Falklands/Malvinas sovereignty issue, according to the first public opinion on the matter done simultaneously in both countries involved.
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Thursday, April 12th 2012 - 01:04 UTC
US World Bank candidate tells board of directors he is not afraid of ‘challenging orthodoxies’
Jim Yong Kim, the US nominee to head the World Bank, told the bank's board of directors that he would not hesitate to question the status quo and do his best to help the world poorest.
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Thursday, April 12th 2012 - 00:56 UTC
'K' Day for the future of YPF; shares in Buenos Aires and New York plunge
Shares in Argentina's biggest energy company YPF plunged 5.6% in Buenos Aires on Wednesday while the company's US-listed shares were 5% lower in New York.
