Mercosur

Friday, September 28th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Oil exploring in Falklands prepares for “exciting” 2008

Borders & Southern Petroleum PLC, the Falkland Islands oil explorer, said its first half to end-June pretax loss narrowed to £117,158 from £182,010 saying the next year would be “exciting” as it evaluated the area covered by its production licences.
Friday, September 28th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Royal Marines back in the Falklands for Exercise Commando Strike

Forty British Royal Marines Reserve (RMR) Commandos from RMR Merseyside are heading back to the Falkland Islands next week 25 years on from the original South Atlantic conflict.
Thursday, September 27th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
US grows 3.8% in second quarter; housing still falling

The United States expanded 3.8% in the second quarter in spite of the mid year credit crunch, weak housing and forecasts of a slowing down, according to a revised estimate released Thursday by the US Department of Commerce. In the first quarter the US economy expanded a sluggish 0.6%.
Thursday, September 27th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Venezuela's Mercosur incorporation before Brazilian Congress

The Brazilian Lower House Foreign Affairs Committee begun this week to consider the official documents of Venezuela's incorporation to Mercosur, a long delayed process with still an arduous path ahead before its final approval and which has irritated relations between Caracas and Brasilia.
Monday, September 24th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Falklands Albatross: encouraging survey results with new methodology

Population data has been collected for one colony on the New Island reserve for the last 29 years, and as such is the only long term data set for the Falkland Islands.
Monday, September 24th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
AIS systems on all Falklands' fishing vessels

THE installation of Automatic Identification Systems (AIS) is likely to be made mandatory for ships operating in Falklands' waters.
Friday, September 21st 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Brazil is working on speeding up Venezuela as a Mercosur full member

Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva, assured this Thursday that his country is working on making Venezuela, definitely, gets his full member entry into the Southern Common Market (Mercosur).
Friday, September 21st 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Chile's Court Orders former Pte. Fujimori Extradicted

Chile's Supreme Court on Friday ordered the extradition of former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori to face trial at home for corruption and human rights violations, including accusations that he ordered the death squad killings of 25 people.
Thursday, September 20th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Inflation and union woes dog Chile's Bachelet

Inflation, the weak link in her country's buoyant economy, is at a six-year high. Unions, the natural partners of her leftwing government, marched through Santiago in August protesting against free-market policies they say are fuelling inequality.
Thursday, September 20th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Portugal, EU president, backs trade deal with Mercosur

Portugal's president urged European and South American political leaders Thursday to make a fresh push toward concluding a long-delayed trade agreement between the two continents.