Mercosur

• Monday, February 14th 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  Saudi Arabia promises to boost oil production.

  The world's main oil producer and exporter Saudi Arabia announced a four years plan to increase daily output from nine million barrels per day to twelve million.

• Monday, February 14th 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  Tierra del Fuego farmers explore Indian market.

  A group of associated Tierra del Fuego farmers are exploring the possibilities of selling wool to India following a business trip to the cities of Bombay, New Delhi and the textile industry hub of Ludiana.

• Monday, February 14th 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  Colombia and Ecuador are Cupid's best allies.

  Four months of hard work in the Colombian and Ecuadorian highlands, climates well suited to the cultivation of lush roses, went into the sentiment embodied by a quarter of a billion flowers given to the object of someone's affection in the United States on Monday.

• Sunday, February 13th 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  A further witness in Ushuaia flag tearing incident.

  The testimony from a witness who was present when three young foreign tourists tore down an Argentine flag and dumped it in a dustbin outside a pub in Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, last January 5 will be included in the plaintiffs case.

• Sunday, February 13th 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  In spite of Bush, Chavez feels he'll reach old age.

  Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez said he will grow old in spite of any attempts by the United States to kill him, but nevertheless thanked Cuban president Fidel Castro for his friendly warning.

• Sunday, February 13th 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  Lula after contracts from oil rich Venezuela.

  Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva arrives Sunday for a state visit to Venezuela when he will be signing with his counterpart Hugo Chavez a strategic cooperation agreement encompassing several fields.

• Sunday, February 13th 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  Fisheries News.

  Headlines:
  Argentine Navy arrests Taiwanese jigger; EC expedites relief to tsunami-battered fisheries.

• Sunday, February 13th 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  2004, fourth warmest year on record.

  Greenhouse gases and to a lesser extent the El Niño current in the Pacific contributed to making 2004 the fourth warmest year on Earth since temperature measurements began worldwide at the end of the 19th century, revealed NASA scientists.

• Saturday, February 12th 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  Puerto Rican governor wants referendum on island's status.

  Puerto Rican Gov. Anibal Acevedo Vila offered a bill Friday calling for a referendum to decide a procedure for resolving the political status of the island, which is currently a U.S. commonwealth.

• Saturday, February 12th 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  Queen Sonja visits the “White Continent”.

  Queen Sonja landed on the new Norwegian airfield in the Antarctic just after midnight in a Norwegian Hercules transport plane from Cape Town in South Africa following a nine-hour flight.