International

• Thursday, August 4th 2011 - 19:37 UTC

  US Senate breakthrough for trade agreements with Korea, Colombia and Panama

  

  The United States Senate leaders ended an impasse over stalled free-trade agreements, agreeing to vote after the August recess on benefits for workers who lose their jobs because of overseas competition, which opens the way for the approval of pending agreements with Korea, Colombia and Panama.

• Thursday, August 4th 2011 - 13:56 UTC

  ”Against All Odds: Rescue at the Chilean Mine” exhibit opens in Washington

  

  After nearly six months of planning, the Chilean Embassy in the United States—headed by Ambassador Arturo Fermandois—is refining the final details for the opening of a new exhibit at the Smithsonian National Museum of National History in Washington, D.C., on the historic rescue of the 33 Chilean miners last October.

• Thursday, August 4th 2011 - 02:06 UTC

  French pilots cease cooperation in crash inquiry on dispute over causes

  

  French pilots on Wednesday suspended cooperation with an inquiry into the 2009 crash of an Air France jet as a dispute over the causes of the disaster opened deep wounds in France's prestigious aeronautics industry.

• Wednesday, August 3rd 2011 - 22:27 UTC

  UK Commons Defence Select Committee warns about level of military cuts

  

  Senior British MPs launched on Wednesday their latest stinging attack on the UK government’s defence cuts, saying they could leave the military overstretched, reports the Portsmouth press.

• Wednesday, August 3rd 2011 - 06:53 UTC

  China Dagong agency downgrades US credit rating from A+ to A with negative outlook

  

  Chinese rating agency Dagong Global Credit Rating Co. said Wednesday it has cut the credit rating of the United States from A+ to A with a negative outlook after the U.S. federal government announced that the country's debt limit would be increased.

• Wednesday, August 3rd 2011 - 00:10 UTC

  China says there’s no way of escaping dollar dominance… in the short term

  

  United States' debt woes still threaten the global economy despite the last-minute deal struck by the White House and political party leaders, China's main official newspaper said on Tuesday, adding there was no short-term escape from the dominance of the dollar.

• Tuesday, August 2nd 2011 - 21:29 UTC

  Emergency bells ringing in Europe: Italy and Spain in the Euro danger zone

  

  Financial market pressure on Italy intensified on Tuesday, sucking Europe's second biggest debtor nation deeper into the Euro area danger zone and prompting emergency consultations in Rome and among European capitals.

• Tuesday, August 2nd 2011 - 15:41 UTC

  Uruguay condemns statements denying Holocaust by Iran ambassador

  

  Uruguay has condemned statements denying the Holocaust made by Iran's ambassador in Montevideo Hojatollah Soltani

• Tuesday, August 2nd 2011 - 15:31 UTC

  “Empress of Uruguay”, world’s largest amethyst geode vandalized

  

  The 2.5 tons Empress of Uruguay is slightly less impressive after a tourist pinched a piece of the world's largest amethyst on show in Queensland, Australia.

• Friday, July 29th 2011 - 18:56 UTC

  Rio-Paris flight crash report opens legal battle between Airbus and Air France

  

  French investigators said on Friday that the crew of Air France's Rio-Paris flight which crashed into the Atlantic two years ago ignored repeated stall warnings and failed to follow textbook procedures.