Mercosur

• Saturday, June 17th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Fuel costs sink Carnival cruises profits

  The world's biggest cruise firm has seen profits fall in the second quarter amid rising fuel costs and lower demand for Caribbean cruises.

• Saturday, June 17th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Fifty years identity secrecy for torturers in Chile

  Chile's Supreme Court ruled Friday that authorities can withhold for 50 years the identity of people found to have inflicted torture on political prisoners during the 1973 to 1990 Pinochet regime.

• Saturday, June 17th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Repsol-YPF privileges Argentina over Bolivia

  Repsol-YPF has plans to speed up the investment program in Argentina to help compensate losses in Bolivia, announced Friday the company's CEO Antonio Brufau in Madrid.

• Saturday, June 17th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Malvinas issue is “out of the freezer” and “on the table”

  This week's resolution from the United Nations Decolonisation Committee definitively means that the sovereignty dispute with the United Kingdom over the Malvinas Islands has been taken “out of the freezer”.

• Friday, June 16th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Falklands/Malvinas: C24 calls for “negotiated settlement”

  The United Nations Special Committee on decolonization -C24- reiterated Thursday in a draft resolution that a peaceful and negotiated settlement was the way to end the special and particular “colonial situation in the question of the Falklands/Malvinas islands regarding the dispute over sovereignty between Argentina and the United Kingdom”.

• Friday, June 16th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Chile fuels are among the most expensive in world

  Gasoline prices in Chile are among the highest in the world ? greater than in almost all European countries and twice the price in the United States. The most commonly used fuel in Chile, 95 Octane, topped $660 pesos per liter on Thursday (US$4.58 per gallon).

• Thursday, June 15th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Falklands' case before C24; Taiana meets Annan

  Argentina formally requested on Wednesday from United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan the renewal of his “good offices” for the resumption of the Malvinas/Falkland islands sovereignty dialogue with the United Kingdom.

• Thursday, June 15th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Energy and housing fuel US May inflation

  United States consumer prices climbed 0.4% in May, driven by a sharp rise in energy costs and housing, reported Wednesday the Department of Labor.

• Thursday, June 15th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Gualeguaychu unwilling to take ?no' as an answer

  Argentine environmentalists said yesterday they would go back on the protest path if the World Court in The Hague did not order the suspension of the construction of two pulp mills in neighbouring Uruguay.

• Wednesday, June 14th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Brazil: Alckmin lines up Lula

  Brazil's leading opposition candidate, Geraldo Alckmin, said during his party's national convention yesterday he would cut taxes and streamline the federal government to help accelerate economic growth if he won October's presidential election.