Uruguay is considering what steps to follow given Brazil’s long delay in extending import licences for Uruguayan dairy produce. An estimated 10.000 tons have been ready for shipping for over two months but there has been no reply from Brazilian trade officials.
An exhibition of Falklands War naval artefacts was presented Wednesday to the Falklands Museum after being brought to the Islands by HMS Gloucester that has taken up tasks as the lead unit of the Royal Navy’s Atlantic Patrol (South).
The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) leaders approved this week the admission of Argentina and the World Peace Council (WPC) as observers at the its 15th summit currently held in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.
Falkland Islands Courts will begin operating under the new Constitution of the Falklands as of next August 8th according to the Amendment Order 2009, approved by Her Majesty with the advice of the Privy Council.
Honduras' interim president has agreed to step down on the condition that Manuel Zelaya, the country's ousted president, is not allowed to regain power. Roberto Micheletti made the offer on Thursday as a means to end the nearly three-week-old political standoff in Honduras
The World Bank could lend up to 17 billion US dollars to Latinamerican countries in the fiscal year that began this month, the organization’s vice-president for Latinamerica said on Wednesday.
The first talks between US President Barrack Obama’s administration and Cuba ended with an invitation for US diplomats to visit Havana in December, marking the official beginning of the first dialogue between Havana and Washington in six years.
The approval of the new composition for the Mercosur Parliament scheduled to be agreed later this month at the group’s presidential summit in Paraguay could be postponed given conflicting interests on supra-national decisions.
The Latinamerican and Caribbean economy is forecasted to contract 1.9% this year following six years of sustained growth, but is expected to expand 3.1% in 2010, according to the latest estimates released Wednesday by the United Nations Latinamerican and Caribbean Economic Commission, Cepal in Santiago de Chile.
Unemployment in the United Kingdom has soared to truly horrendous levels after a record 281,000 people joined the growing jobless ranks, taking the total to 2.38 million, the worst since 1995.