Stories for 2013

Tuesday, October 29th 2013 - 05:58 UTC
Brazilian ex-president to be exhumed to determine if he was poisoned by the military regime

The remains of ex-president Joao Goulart will be exhumed next month to determine whether he was poisoned during his exile in Argentina in the 1970s, Brazil announced on Monday.
Tuesday, October 29th 2013 - 00:13 UTC
NASA solves the mystery of a “city of lights” in the South Atlantic night: jiggers

When in December 2012, the NOAA National Geophysical Data Center and the NASA Earth Observatory released a new map of the Earth as it appears at night they “found something fishy off the coast of Argentina” but now the mystery has been solved. About 300 to 500 kilometers offshore, a city of light appeared in the middle of the South Atlantic Ocean. There are no human settlements there, nor fires or gas wells. But there are an awful lot of fishing boats.
Tuesday, October 29th 2013 - 00:10 UTC
Ozone hole slightly smaller than average this year, according to NASA

The ozone hole that forms each year in the stratosphere over Antarctica was slightly smaller in 2013 than average in recent decades, according to NASA satellite data. The ozone hole is a seasonal phenomenon that starts to form during the Antarctic spring (August and September). The September-October 2013 average size of the hole was 8.1 million square miles (21 million square kilometers).
Monday, October 28th 2013 - 20:51 UTC
“Mother is recovering and improving” said Maximo, son of Cristina Fernandez

Maximo Kirchner, the eldest son of Argentine President Cristina Fernandez said his mother's medical condition was 'improving' from the cranium surgery to drain a blood clot to which she saw submitted at the beginning of the month, but did not advance any date as to when the head of state will return to her job.
Monday, October 28th 2013 - 20:37 UTC
Brazil's middle and high classes support spontaneous street protests

Brazil's middle and high classes are the most supportive of the street demonstrations and protests that have turned out in the country's main cities since last June, according to the results of a public opinion poll from Datafolha Institute and published in the Sunday edition of Folha de Sao Paulo.
Monday, October 28th 2013 - 20:30 UTC
Cartes and Rousseff to open vital supply power line for Paraguay's capital built with Mercosur funds

Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff will inaugurate on Tuesday in Paraguay next to his peer Horacio Cartes a high voltage transmission line from the world's largest operational hydroelectric dam Itaipú to metropolitan Asuncion, capital of the landlocked country and which was financed with Mercosur funds.
Monday, October 28th 2013 - 20:24 UTC
Falklands lawmakers: “The full time problem”

Falkland Islands are holding elections next 7 November and eleven candidates will be disputing the five Legislative Assembly seats for Stanly and five the three for the Camp.
Monday, October 28th 2013 - 20:16 UTC
Foreign Office Director Europe is the new British ambassador in Spain

Simon Manley CMG, a member of the UK’s Diplomatic Service since 1990 on Monday 28 October succeeds Giles Paxman as Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Spain and non-resident Ambassador to Andorra.
Monday, October 28th 2013 - 13:50 UTC
China capitalist reforms: break up state monopolies, land reform, Yuan reserve currency

A Chinese top government think tank has unveiled a detailed road map for a series of far-reaching economic policy changes, in one of the strongest indications yet that the Communist Party intends to stay on the path of reform
Monday, October 28th 2013 - 06:41 UTC
Lack of refining capacity and capped fuel prices hit Petrobras profits

Brazil’s state-controlled oil producer Petrobras said third-quarter profit slid 40%, missing analysts’ estimates, on higher fuel imports and refining losses. Net income dropped to 3.39 billion Reais (1.55bn dollars) from 5.66 billion Reais a year earlier, the company said on Friday in a regulatory statement.