Mercosur

• Tuesday, November 29th 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  Montreal: Climate talks begin

  More than 180 nations were grappling with gloomy prospects of increased pollution and global warming at the first meeting on the UN Kyoto Protocol, as a political storm unfolded in host nation Canada.

• Tuesday, November 29th 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  Aerolineas Argentinas flies on rented planes

  Argentina's largest airline reported Tuesday it is renting aircraft from other companies to resume part of its operations idled by a six-day-long strike by pilots and mechanics.

• Monday, November 28th 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  Argentina: Breaking News

  Argentine Economy Minister Roberto Lavagna, who helped pull the country out of its worst recession on record, was ousted as part of a cabinet shuffle. The nation's stocks, bonds and the currency tumbled.

• Sunday, November 27th 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  Pinochet's aides long silent loyalty cracks

  Chilean former dictator Augusto Pinochet ordered current ruling coalition presidential candidate Michelle Bachelet and her mother, Angela Jeria, arrested in January 1975, admitted former secret service chief Manuel Contreras.

• Sunday, November 27th 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  Aerolineas Argentinas grounded by labour conflict

  Spanish owned Aerolineas Argentinas is planning to fire 168 staff including pilots and mechanics that since last Thursday are on strike demanding higher wages according to information released Sunday by company headquarters in Buenos Aires.

• Saturday, November 26th 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  “Mad cow” case confirmed in Luxembourg

  A new case of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, BSE, or “mad cow” has been reported in Luxembourg, according to the country's Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock.

• Saturday, November 26th 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  Venezuela/Colombia agree on tight energy network

  Venezuela and Colombia agreed Thursday to build a gas pipeline linking the western shore of Venezuela's Lake Maracaibo and the Colombian town of Ballena.

• Saturday, November 26th 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  Latinamerica has 213 million poor, 40% of population

  Despite some progress over the past two years, poverty in Latinamerica and the Caribbean, --steady since 1990--, still is extensive to 213 million people, equivalent to 40,6% of the region's population according to a United Nations report released Friday in Chile.

• Saturday, November 26th 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  British parliamentarians visit Argentina

  A group of six British parliamentarians are currently visiting Argentina under the auspices of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU).

• Friday, November 25th 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  Venezuelan farmers concerned with Mercosur

  Cattle-ranchers and farmers in Venezuela claim they are being left in the dark as President Hugo Chávez accelerates his drive to make the country a full member of Mercosur, next December.