MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for November 7th 2013
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Thursday, November 7th 2013 - 07:57 UTC
Argentina complains South African Airways decision to cut the Buenos Aires route
Argentina's ambassador to South Africa, Carlos Sersale di Cerisano, has criticized South African Airways’ (SAA’s) move to end its service to Buenos Aires as a “political decision” not based on commercial criteria. SAA spokesman Tlali Tlali said the airline was cutting long-haul routes from its network as part of a turnaround strategy to restore profitability. Cutting the route between Argentina and South Africa had to be seen in that context.
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Thursday, November 7th 2013 - 07:51 UTC
Venice reducing cruise traffic in front of St Mark's square
A special commission approved this week a plan to divert cruise ships away from Venice's historic center by 2016, but activists seeking to rid the city of the giant ships expressed reservations about the proposed new route.
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Thursday, November 7th 2013 - 07:44 UTC
EU recession close to inflection point but unemployment remains at 'unacceptable levels'
The Euro zone economy's gross domestic product will grow 1.1% in 2014 and 1.7% in 2015, with imbalances diminishing as unemployment remains at unacceptable levels, the European Commission said in a report released earlier this week.
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Thursday, November 7th 2013 - 07:24 UTC
Argentina steps down from major air exercise in Brazil fearing repeat of flagship Libertad incident
Argentina admitted that it stepped down at last minute from participating in South America's largest military air exercise in Brazil, Cruzex 2013 to avoid any possible injunction situations as that experienced by the Navy's three mast frigate that ended retained in a port of Ghana.
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Thursday, November 7th 2013 - 07:11 UTC
People of Gibraltar will not be duped by Madrid's latest distortion of 'UK/Spain secret negotiations'
Spain is clutching at straws in trying to pretend that the annual United Nations Fourth Committee consensus decision is somehow something new or that will restart the Brussels Process, the Gibraltar Government said on Wednesday.
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Thursday, November 7th 2013 - 06:58 UTC
Symbolic fourth bell returns from Wales to Chile's 14th Fire Brigade, 150 years later
In another demonstration of the close links of Chile and Britain, members of the 14th Fire Brigade from the city of Santiago de Chile officially received the fourth bell of the old Compañía de Jesús Church which was completely destroyed by a devastating fire that also killed over 2.500 people in 1863, almost 150 years ago.
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Thursday, November 7th 2013 - 06:55 UTC
Colombia/ FARC announce 'fundamental agreement' on political future of guerrillas
Colombia's government and Marxist FARC rebels reached a “fundamental agreement” on the guerrillas' future in politics, one of the thorniest issues addressed in peace talks in Cuba, according to a joint statement.
