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• Monday, September 4th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Carbon dioxide levels highest in 800.000 years

  Carbon dioxide levels are substantially higher now than at anytime in the last 800,000 years, the latest study of ice drilled out of Antarctica confirms. The in-depth analysis of air bubbles trapped in a 3.2km-long core of frozen snow shows current greenhouse gas concentrations are unprecedented.

• Sunday, September 3rd 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Uruguay, open destination for Chinese tourists

  Uruguay will become an open destination for Chinese tourists following a meeting this week between Uruguayan president Tabare Vazquez and the Chinese Ambassador in Montevideo, Wang Xiaoyuan, reports Beijing's People's Daily.

• Sunday, September 3rd 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Chavez promises supporters “elected” president for life

  Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez promised that if he wins the coming December election he will call a referendum in 2010 on his administration, and if positive will propose a constitutional review to end the two consecutive periods' reelection limit.

• Sunday, September 3rd 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Kirchner mends fences with Peru's Alan Garcia

  Peruvian president Alan Garcia has been officially invited to visit Argentina in the near future announced in Lima Foreign Affairs Secretary Jorge Taiana, a clear attempt from both sides to fasten the “cooperation links” of a long standing historical bilateral relation.

• Sunday, September 3rd 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Catastrophic climate forecast from top US scientist

  One of America's top scientists has said that the world has already entered a state of dangerous climate change reports BBC.

• Sunday, September 3rd 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  New Chairman for United Nations C 24

  Anthony Bryan Severin of Santa Lucia has been elected chairman of the Committee of 24, the United Nations Committee that deals with decolonisation. The appointment was confirmed as the C24 met this week.

• Saturday, September 2nd 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Chile declares national day for the disappeared

  Chilean President Michelle Bachelet this week established August 30 as the National Day for the Disappeared.

• Saturday, September 2nd 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Mexican president blocked from addressing Congress

  Mexican president Vicente Fox was prevented Friday from making his final state of the nation speech before Congress when over a hundred left wing legislators occupied the podium. This is the first time in the history of Mexico that a president is forced to cancel the ceremony.

• Saturday, September 2nd 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Brazilian economy slowing but Lula da Silva optimistic

  Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva forecasted Friday the economy would expand 4% by the end of 2006 in spite of poor quarterly results.

• Saturday, September 2nd 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Angela Merkel most powerful

  German Chancellor Angela Merkel has unseated US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as the world's most powerful woman, according to a new ranking by Forbes magazine.