MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for June 14th 2013
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Friday, June 14th 2013 - 03:32 UTC
Menem will appeal sentence to seven years in prison for smuggling weapons
An Argentine court sentenced former President Carlos Menem to seven years in prison for smuggling weapons to Croatia during the Yugoslav civil war of the 1990s, and to Ecuador. Last year Menem was acquitted along with 17 other defendants, but the Cassation Court convicted 12 of them and urged the judges to change the verdicts.
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Friday, June 14th 2013 - 03:29 UTC
Argentina train crash kills 3, injures 315 and sparks controversy over the rail system
At least three people were killed and 315 others injured when two trains collided Thursday morning outside Argentina's capital, officials said. The causes of the accident are yet to be determined and have already triggered controversy giving the poor conditions of the Argentine railway system.
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Friday, June 14th 2013 - 03:25 UTC
Structural reform to ensure faster growth remains a main challenge for Latam economies
Finding the optimal balance between macroeconomic policies to stimulate domestic demand in the short term and structural reforms to enable faster growth over the longer run, remain as the main challenges for the Latinamerican economies, according to the latest report from the World Bank.
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Friday, June 14th 2013 - 02:03 UTC
Chinese jiggers’ seamen landed in Montevideo died of lack of proper food and tropical parasitosis
The most probable death cause of the Chinese crewmembers from two jiggers in quarantine outside the port of Montevideo was lack of sufficient nutrient and balanced food plus tropical parasitosis, according to the primary forensic reports from Uruguayan health authorities.
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Friday, June 14th 2013 - 00:16 UTC
Falklands have never been part of Argentina and Islanders overwhelmingly voted to remain British
The following piece was written by Andrew Ayre, British High Commissioner in Georgetown, Guyana and published in StabroekNews from Guyana.
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Friday, June 14th 2013 - 00:12 UTC
Chile and UK hold annual round of defense talks in London
Chile and the UK held a round of defense talks in London at the end of May as part of the defense and security agreements between the two countries. The talks took place at the Ministry of Defense and were hosted by the UK Minister for International Security Strategy, Dr. Andrew Murrison.
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Friday, June 14th 2013 - 00:05 UTC
NASA investing in 3D ‘pizza printer’ for astronauts long space missions
With concerns about our ability to feed 12 billion people by the end of the century, one engineer is looking to replace conventional food with something produced by a 3D printer, and he’s getting a grant from NASA to create a prototype.
