Mercosur

• Saturday, November 18th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Gibraltar/Barajas Madrid flights begin December 16th.

  Normal air services between Gibraltar airport and Madrid Barajas are to commence next December 16th, according to a joint press statement from the participants in the Forum of Dialogue on Gibraltar released Friday.

• Saturday, November 18th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Argentina suspends corn exports

  Argentina, the world's second-biggest corn exporter has suspended “for an undetermined period” new corn export orders beginning November 20 in the latest effort by the government to rein in inflation.

• Saturday, November 18th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Argentina considering Falklands' war joint commemoration

  Argentina's Defence Minsiter Nilda Garré confirmed Friday in Puerto Belgrano that a British invitation to jointly commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Falklands/Malvinas conflict is currently under consideration by the Argentine Ministry of Foreign Affairs, reports the Buenos Aires press.

• Saturday, November 18th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  WTO head at Uruguay Round XXth anniversary

  World Trade Organization Director General Pascal Lamy is scheduled to visit Montevideo the coming week to participate in the twentieth anniversary of the GATT Uruguay Round (*).

• Saturday, November 18th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Milton Friedman, father of Chile's biggest economic revolution

  Milton Friedman, one of the world's best-known economists and winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize for Economics, died of heart failure last Thursday in San Francisco.

• Friday, November 17th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  King's envoy visits all the K's men

  In his first meetings with government officials since arriving in Argentina on Wednesday, Spaniard Juan Antonio Yáñez-Barnuevo was handed documents that Buenos Aires considers essential in its argument against the construction of a paper pulp mill on the Uruguayan side of the Uruguay River.

• Friday, November 17th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Bolivia: Land reform or clash?

  Bolivia risks a new popular uprising, like protests over energy that toppled two governments in recent years, if Congress does not approve the administration's land reform bill, President Evo Morales said yesterday.

• Friday, November 17th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Bachelet in Vietnam for APEC Conference

  President Michelle Bachelet meets Friday with Vietnam's President Nguyen Minh Triet to begin her four-day visit to Hanoi, where the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) conference is taking place.

• Friday, November 17th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Virus outbreak hits 700 on board Carnival Liberty

  Investigators from the United States Center for Disease Control and Prevention joined Thursday the last leg of a Carnival Liberty cruise in St. Maarten following a gastrointestinal outbreak that has affected over 700 passengers and crew.

• Friday, November 17th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  China calls on corporations to help reduce poverty

  Multinational corporations should invest in developing countries to help reduce the gap between rich and poor nations, said Chinese president Hu Jintao on Friday during the APEC (Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation) meeting in Hanoi.