Mercosur

• Thursday, July 13th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Pilots end strike and Iberia takes off again

  Pilots from Spanish flag air carrier Iberia agreed to end a three days strike which forced the company to cancel over 200 flights daily, announced Wednesday the Spanish government.

• Thursday, July 13th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Lula da Silva: “US and Venezuela need each other”

  Brazilian president Lula da Silva welcomed last week's entry of Venezuela into Mercosur and said regional integration is the main axis of his administration's foreign policy.

• Thursday, July 13th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Gangs resume attacks on Sao Paulo police

  Gang violence that is “terrorizing” Brazil's biggest and richest state may require emergency measures from the federal government, but local authorities must request help, signalled President Lula da Silva.

• Thursday, July 13th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  The 500 billion US dollars sport's business

  The economic and commercial success of the recent World Cup in Germany gives an idea of the money generated by the world's “seventeenth economy” with an annual turn over of 500 billion US dollars.

• Thursday, July 13th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Chavez predicts the “end of the US empire”

  Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said that he will increase support for Cuba and suggested United States prepare “its own transition plan because this century the American empire will come to an end”.

• Thursday, July 13th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Court rules pup mills construction can continue

  The International Court of Justice in The Hague rejected Thursday Argentina's request to suspend the construction of two pulp mills in Uruguay on the ground that they pose a pollution threat.

• Wednesday, July 12th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Chile furious with Argentina's “discriminatory” fuel prices

  Argentina's decision to increase fuel prices in frontier areas to vehicles with foreign plates was described Tuesday by Chilean president Michelle Bachelet as “inconceivable” and contrary to the integration path the region pretends.

• Wednesday, July 12th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  World Population Day: UN calls for narrowing rich/poor gap

  From its Headquarters in New York to hotspot frontlines like Afghanistan, the United Nations marked on Tuesday World Population Day with the focus on the more than 3 billion young who represent nearly half of Earth's people and calls to answer their demand to narrow the gap between rich and poor.

• Wednesday, July 12th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Bush optimistic about cutting the budget deficit

  The United States federal budget deficit is forecasted to drop below 300 billion US dollars by next September 30, announced the White House attributing the improvement to President Bush administration's tax cutting policy.

• Wednesday, July 12th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  UN support for expedition probing Arctic climate

  With the world's polar regions playing on a global scale the role of a canary in a coal mine ? providing early warnings on human-induced climate change, the thinning of the ozone layer and the impact of persistent chemical pollution ? the United Nations is supporting a two-year scientific mission to the Arctic that got underway Tuesday.