Mercosur

• Tuesday, March 28th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Police involved in death of Falklands' veteran

  Four British police officers were guilty of the “most serious neglect of duty” over the death of former Falklands' veteran Christopher Alder in 1998, a watchdog has ruled, reports the BBC.

• Tuesday, March 28th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Brazil increases rain forest protection area

  Brazil announced plans to expand protection of the Amazon rain forest, as cabinet ministers from more than 90 nations arrived in Curitiba for a United Nations sponsored environmental conference.

• Tuesday, March 28th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  US religious leaders march against immigration reform

  Dozens of Christian, Muslim and Jewish clergy marched in Washington to the U.S. Congress Monday to protest the proposed immigration-law reform, a day after huge demonstrations in several US cities.

• Tuesday, March 28th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Peruvian presidential campaign flares but still undecided

  With less than two weeks to the April 9 election Peruvian ultra nationalist presidential candidate Ollanta Humala remains ahead in the first round but looks like having problems in a hypothetical run off with runner up Social Christian Lourdes Flores.

• Tuesday, March 28th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Mantega Brazil new finance minister

  Brazil's new Finance Minister Guido Mantega said on Monday that the government's conservative economic policies will not change and called its primary budget surplus target “sacred.”

• Tuesday, March 28th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Fed raises interest rates 25 points to 4.75%

  The United States Federal Reserve meeting for the first time under Chairman Ben Bernanke raised interest rates for the fifteenth time by 25 points to 4.75%.

• Monday, March 27th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Bachelet: joining Mercosur would be “back stepping”

  The recently inaugurated Chilean president Michelle Bachelet said that for Chile to become a full member of Mercosur would mean “back stepping”.

• Monday, March 27th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Chileans reject relinquishing territory to Bolivia

  Most Chileans reject relinquishing sovereignty over Bolivia's former coastal region, despite La Paz's demand for renewed sea access, according to a survey published Sunday by the daily La Tercera.

• Monday, March 27th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Finally Argentine ? Uruguayan summit is confirm

  The Finnish firm Botnia yesterday announced it would stop the construction of a paper pulp mill in the Uruguayan town of Fray Bentos for “up to 90 days,” a decision that clears the way for a meeting between Presidents Néstor Kirchner of Argentina and Tabaré Vázquez of Uruguay on Wednesday.

• Monday, March 27th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Straw announces new Constitution for Gibraltar

  British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw announced Monday in the House of Commons the successful conclusion of the Gibraltar Constitutional negotiations on Friday March 17.