Mercosur

• Monday, September 18th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Kirchner takes Falklands' issue to UN assembly

  Business, human rights and Malvinas/Falklands are among the main topics which the Argentine delegation headed by President Nestor Kirchner and First Lady Cristina Fernandez will be addressing in New York this week during the United Nations General Assembly, reports the Buenos Aires press.

• Monday, September 18th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Historic agreement over Gibraltar

  United Kingdom, Gibraltar and Spain concluded Monday in Cordoba, Spain, a landmark agreement on a range of cross-cutting issues affecting the Rock and its citizens.

• Monday, September 18th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Yet another scandal rocks Brazil and Lula's ruling party

  With less than two weeks for the presidential election Brazil was again rocked by yet another political scandal allegedly involving the ruling Workers Party with the purpose of smearing the reputation of opposition candidates.

• Monday, September 18th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  IMF two year reform process launched in Singapore

  The International Monetary Fund, IMF, agreed Monday on reforms giving China, Mexico, South Korean and Turkey more say in how the multilateral institution is run.

• Monday, September 18th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Oil imports push US current account deficit

  Record oil import costs pushed United States current account deficit to 218.4 billion US dollars in the second quarter, equivalent to 6% of total US economic output, reported the US Department of Commerce.

• Monday, September 18th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Venezuela/Iran: no end to mutual “revolutionary” praise

  Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Venezuela's Hugo Chavez's inaugurated Monday a joint heavy oil/tar sands exploration operation in the Orinoco belt which if confirmed in 2008 could make Venezuela the country with the world's largest hydrocarbons reserves.

• Monday, September 18th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  When Castro is gone: “peace and reconciliation”

  Cuban dissident Oswaldo Paya says he fears the Castro regime will begin killing opponents if it feels threatened, though he also detects in the events surrounding Fidel Castro's illness signs of impending rapid change in Cuba.

• Sunday, September 17th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Chavez ignores Calderon and praises Lopez Obrador

  Venezuela's Hugo Chavez reiterated Sunday in Caracas that his government “does not recognize the president elect of Mexico” who he said “represents a desperate extreme right which appeals to all sorts of dirty tricks”, although “it's difficult to see them hail victory”.

• Sunday, September 17th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  IMF begins biggest shake up in six decades

  The International Monetary Fund, IMF, is scheduled to begin addressing Monday “the biggest shake up in six decades” of the multilateral organization, according to Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown who chairs the top steering committee.

• Sunday, September 17th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Brazilian television calls Malvinas “Falklands”

  Brazil's main television station international signal, TV Globo refers to the Malvinas Islands as “Falklands”, complained the Argentine agency DYN.