Stories for 2012

Thursday, October 11th 2012 - 04:23 UTC
Chavez prepares his succession: names Foreign minister Maduro Vice-president

Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez named Foreign minister Nicolás Maduro as his new vice-president on Wednesday in the first change of cabinet after Sunday's re-election.
Thursday, October 11th 2012 - 04:09 UTC
S&P cuts Spain’s credit rating to BBB minus just above junk territory

Standard & Poor's cut Spain's sovereign credit rating to BBB-minus, just above junk territory, citing a deepening economic recession that is limiting the government's policy options to arrest the slide.
Thursday, October 11th 2012 - 04:04 UTC
Nobel in chemistry for advancing inner workings of G-protein-coupled receptors

Two US scientists won the 2012 Nobel Prize for chemistry for research into how cells respond to external stimuli that is helping to develop better drugs to fight diseases such as diabetes, cancer and depression.
Wednesday, October 10th 2012 - 20:53 UTC
Cristina, get serious

By Jorge Araya - The Argentine president’s misguided perspective threatens her country.
(The following piece was published in the Harvard Crimson from Harvard University. It is considered the US oldest continuously published daily college newspaper, was founded in 1873 and incorporated in 1967).
Wednesday, October 10th 2012 - 19:33 UTC
BAS merger plan triggers debate; fears of ‘diminished’ British presence in Southern Ocean

UK government plans to merge the British Antarctic Survey with the National Oceanography Centre have triggered global debate among scientists and politicians with former US Vice-president Al Gore wading into the discussion and fears in the Falkland Islands of a diminished “British presence” in the region.
Wednesday, October 10th 2012 - 18:50 UTC
Argentine creditors want 20m dollars to release ARA Libertad retained in Ghana

Argentina is refusing to pay the 20 million dollars in ransom that New York hedge fund dealer Paul Singer is demanding in exchange for releasing the country’s Naval training vessel currently retained in the port of Tempa, Ghana, West Africa, reports the New York Post.
Wednesday, October 10th 2012 - 18:41 UTC
South America solid behind Argentina’s Falklands’ claim at UN decolonization meeting

The opening session of the UN Fourth Committee on decolonisation was dominated by a joint verbal assault on Britain by South American countries over the issue of the Falkland Islands. One after another, representatives of governments in the region called on the UK to enter into dialogue with Argentina over the sovereignty of the Islands, which are claimed by the government in Buenos Aires.
Wednesday, October 10th 2012 - 09:47 UTC
Paraguay ratifies it rejects point blank Venezuela’s incorporation to Mercosur

President Federico Franco ratified on Monday before the Diplomatic Corps that Paraguay rejects point blank the incorporation of Venezuela as full member of Mercosur and also considers the country was unfairly treated by the block.
Wednesday, October 10th 2012 - 09:39 UTC
One in eight people worldwide suffer from chronic hunger, says FAO

One in eight people worldwide still suffers from chronic hunger, the UN's food agency said on Tuesday, describing the figure as “unacceptable” and warning that the fight against hunger was slowing down.
Wednesday, October 10th 2012 - 09:29 UTC
With hunger, the only acceptable number is ”zero”

By Jose Graziano da Silva, Director General of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization - Achieving the first Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of halving the prevalence of hunger in the world by 2015 is still within reach, but a strong, sustained acceleration of efforts is needed. Progress made in the fight against hunger since the middle of the last decade has lost steam, and it is time to regain momentum.