The BBC has ended its radio broadcasts in Spanish for Latin America, 73 years after they first went on air. The service faced its greatest challenge during the Falklands War between Britain and Argentina in 1982.
China Petrochemical Group (Sinopec), China's largest oil refiner announced this week that U.S. Occidental Petroleum Corp. (NYSE:OXY) had completed handing over its Argentinean assets to it.
Repsol-YPF, Spain’s biggest oil company, said fourth-quarter profit more than doubled after refining margins improved and crude prices increased. Profit adjusted to exclude inventories and one-time items climbed to 499 million Euros from 241 million Euros a year earlier, the Madrid-based company said on Thursday.
Brazilian mining giant and the world’s largest iron- ore producer Vale SA said its fourth-quarter profit almost quadrupled, because of surging prices for the raw material used to make steel.
India pledged on Thursday greater economic cooperation with Uruguay in sectors such as agriculture, pharmaceuticals, textiles, automobiles, machineries and IT. In 2009-10, bilateral trade stood at 64.3 million US dollars.
Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi has told state TV that Osama Bin Laden and his followers are to blame for the protests wracking his country.
A British court has agreed to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to Sweden where he is accused of sex crimes, dismissing claims such a move would breach his human rights.
The Prime Minister of New Zealand, John Key, says emergency teams in Christchurch are now focusing on recovering bodies, rather than finding survivors of the earthquake.
He has confirmed that 98 people are known to have been killed in the recent earthquake, and more than 200 others are still missing.
Spanish-Argentine energy company Repsol-YPF officially informed the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission of its decision to de-list from the New York Stock Exchange, where its shares had been traded for almost 22 years.
Nasdaq OMX Group Inc could launch a rival bid for NYSE Euronext to avoid being left on the sidelines, a source said, as traditional exchanges race to merge to see off upstart electronic rivals.