International

• Thursday, August 23rd 2012 - 00:50 UTC

  Where’s the cheapest to ‘fill her up’? Venezuela: 12.8 US cents a liter of petrol

  

  Venezuela, the latest entry as full member of Mercosur has the cheapest petrol price in the world, 8 pennies per liter, (1 £ trading at 1.59 dollars on 22 August) according to the latest report from UK website, “This is money”, based on a research from Evans Halshaw.

• Wednesday, August 22nd 2012 - 06:06 UTC

  UN warns of risk of African swine fever in Caucasus region

  

  Following the first-ever detection of African swine fever (ASF)in Ukraine, the United Nations is warning that while control measures appear to have temporarily halted the disease's spread, it has established a firm foothold in the Caucasus and poses an ongoing risk to neighbouring areas.

• Wednesday, August 22nd 2012 - 05:44 UTC

  Double standards in Ecuador: Correa ready to extradite Belarus who faces death threat

  

  Less than a year ago an Ecuadorean judge denied a request to extradite Aliaksandr Barankov to Belarus, the former Soviet bloc nation whose president has been nicknamed “Europe's last dictator”, reports the US and European media.

• Tuesday, August 21st 2012 - 22:01 UTC

  Brazil with the lowest performance in the first half of 2012 among BRIC countries

  

  Russian GDP growth in percentage terms surpassed Brazil in the first half of the year and even if the market still prefers Brazil’s diverse economy over Russia, the South American country is now dead last in terms of economic growth in the big four emerging markets, BRIC.

• Tuesday, August 21st 2012 - 20:40 UTC

  Sweden will not extradite Assange if he faces death penalty in the US

  

  The Swedish government will not extradite Julian Assange to the US should he face the death penalty there, as any possible extradition request from Washington is then subject to strict conditions, an official from the country’s Justice Ministry.

• Tuesday, August 21st 2012 - 20:24 UTC

  Controversy in the UK over lack of sufficient fish from its own waters

  

  UK would have run out of fish for the year by now if it relied on stocks from its own waters, a report suggests. Annual domestic fish stocks can satisfy demand for about 233 days a year, think tank the New Economics Foundation said. This leaves the UK reliant on imported fish, such as haddock and cod, with at least one in three fish consumed in the UK imported from outside the EU.

• Tuesday, August 21st 2012 - 20:07 UTC

  US families dump 40% of their food every year, says environmental group

  

  Americans throw away nearly half their food every year, waste worth roughly 165 billion dollars annually or 2.275 dollars per average family, according to a study released on Tuesday by the Natural Resources Defence Council

• Tuesday, August 21st 2012 - 19:07 UTC

  US and Japan file complaints at WTO against Argentine import licensing rules

  

  The United States and Japan launched on Tuesday complaints against Argentina at the World Trade Organization (WTO), alleging that its import licensing rules discriminate against foreign goods. The two complaints follow similar litigation brought by the European Union in May.

• Tuesday, August 21st 2012 - 05:21 UTC

  Ecuador ready for dialogue with UK, but with eyes on Friday’s OAS meeting

  

  The Ecuadorean government reiterated on Monday that dialogue with UK on the Julian Assange case will continue once London officially “withdraws” the original message with threats. Quito also is hopeful that the coming OAS extraordinary meeting will ratify full support for Ecuador as has happened with other regional organizations.

• Tuesday, August 21st 2012 - 02:56 UTC

  Argentina hosted 5.7m tourists in 2011; iconic names play a significant role

  

  Argentina has become the most visited country in South America with arrivals in 2011 reaching almost six million tourists, said Leonardo Boto head of the country’s National Tourism Promotion Institute, Improtur.