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Montevideo, April 1st 2026 - 22:37 UTC

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  • Sunday, November 9th 2014 - 10:01 UTC

    Mexico's cancels contract to build a high-speed passenger train link

    Mexico's communications and transport ministry said the new auction would start from mid-November and be open for about six months.

    Mexico has abruptly cancelled a 3.75bn dollars contract awarded on Monday for a Chinese-led consortium to build a high-speed passenger rail link. President Enrique Peña Nieto said he wanted to avoid “any doubts about the legitimacy and transparency” of the bidding process.

  • Sunday, November 9th 2014 - 09:52 UTC

    Antarctic ozone hole reached annual peak 11 September and with the size of North America

    Scientists are working to determine if the ozone hole trend over the last decade is a result of temperature increases or chorine declines.

    The Antarctic ozone hole reached its annual peak size on Sept. 11, according to scientists from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The size of this year’s hole was 24.1 million square kilometers, an area roughly the size of North America.

  • Saturday, November 8th 2014 - 11:13 UTC

    Aggressive promotions and solid leadership pays off for the Falkland Islands!

    The Falkland Islands Tourist Board Stand at World Travel Mart

    The Falkland Islands Tourist Board has been working hard to produce the highest standard of representation for the islands to date. Following a highly successful campaign over the past two and a half years of developing a higher awareness for the Falkland Islands through targeted and high level marketing, promotions and events, have pulled off the most successful of the years promotions.

  • Saturday, November 8th 2014 - 10:18 UTC

    Former US soccer leader Blazer spied on FIFA as an FBI informant

    The FBI pressured Blazer into working for them from 2011 because he failed to pay income taxes on millions of dollars he made as a leader of CONCACAF

    Chuck Blazer, once the most powerful man in US soccer, was an FBI informant used to spy on Fifa, the New York Daily News reports. Blazer, who is now suffering from cancer, secretly recorded conversations with officials he arranged to meet at his London hotel during the 2012 Olympics, the report said.

  • Saturday, November 8th 2014 - 09:18 UTC

    Anglo-French defence co-operation contract to develop unmanned combat air systems

    “The technological excellence of our defense aerospace industry must be maintained. It is a matter of sovereignty and operational superiority”, said Collet-Billon

    A set of defence co-operation contracts, worth £120 million, for the early phase of a joint development of Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) between the UK and French governments have been awarded in Paris. A UCAS capability would, by the 2030’s, be able to undertake sustained surveillance, mark targets, gather intelligence, deter adversaries and carry out strikes in hostile territory.

  • Friday, November 7th 2014 - 23:08 UTC

    English court involved in Argentine bonds dispute with hedge funds

    The lawsuit involves 226m Euros interest payments on Euro-denominated Argentine bonds issued under English law. One of the litigants is George Soros

    A London court gave Argentine “holdout creditors” in New York a two-week window on Thursday to challenge declarations sought by a powerful group of investors in a dispute over interest payments worth about 226 million Euros. The payments involve Euro-denominated Argentine bonds which were issued under English law.

  • Friday, November 7th 2014 - 22:51 UTC

    Argentina targets yet another US company on alleged tax fraud

    Allegedly GE carried out illegal operations that cost Argentina an unnecessarily large number of dollar reserves and a reduced taxation income

    US corporation firm General Electric has “over-invoiced” imports in a financial maneuver designed to access additional dollars in the official foreign exchange market, claimed Argentine Cabinet Chief Jorge Capitanich. GE thus becomes the second large US company in less than a week to face accusations of financial trickery in order to obtain economic benefits.

  • Friday, November 7th 2014 - 05:11 UTC

    ECB ready to give the Euro zone further economic stimulus

    The ECB's attempt to kick some life into the sluggish Euro zone economy is to buy covered bonds and other assets for two years.

    The president of the European Central Bank (ECB), Mario Draghi, says the bank stands ready to give the Euro zone further economic stimulus “should it become necessary”. The comments boosted shares in Europe. It also prompted a fall for the euro, with analysts increasingly braced for more dramatic stimulus measures.

  • Thursday, November 6th 2014 - 21:50 UTC

    Falklands oil industry regulated by UK North Sea standards, one of the highest in the world

    MLA Roger Edwards in a letter to The Guardian said that Filmus statement is 'yet another futile example of the Argentine Government’s futile efforts to damage the Falklands economy'

    The elected government of the Falkland Islands has strongly refuted remarks by Argentine official 'Malvinas Secretary' Daniel Filmus, published in The Guardian, in which he states that hydrocarbons activities in the Falklands are environmentally reckless, and describes Filmus words as “yet another example of the Argentine's government futile efforts to damage the Falklands economy”

  • Thursday, November 6th 2014 - 08:12 UTC

    Greenpeace names twenty “monster vessels, the scourge of the oceans”

    Spain figures with five names, of which two are from Galicia,: Eirado do Costal, with home port in Cangas, and Playa de Tambo, based in Marin.

    Five fishing vessels from Spain are among the 20 most destructive community fishing vessels in the European Union, according to a new report from the environmental organization Greenpeace. Out of the five, two are from Galicia,: Eirado do Costal, with home port in Cangas, and Playa de Tambo, based in Marin.