Politics

• Monday, June 28th 2010 - 22:19 UTC

  Greece wants Mercosur/EU talks conditioned to end of Argentine trade barriers

  

  On the eve of the resumption of European Union/Mercosur trade talks, the EU has again complained about Argentina’s ‘protectionist’ measures on some EU agriculture produce and Greece is demanding discussions be conditioned to an end to barriers.

• Monday, June 28th 2010 - 22:02 UTC

  Soccer first played by the Guarani (Paraguay) according to the Vatican

  

  Soccer or football was first played by the indigenous Guaranies in what is today Paraguay, the heartland of South America and one of the sixteen best teams of the current World Cup currently been disputed in South Africa.

• Monday, June 28th 2010 - 05:58 UTC

  Mrs. Kirchner does not challenge Cameron on Falklands; ‘issue belongs to UN’

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner met with PM David Cameron in the framework of G-20 events in Toronto, Canada, but avoided talking about the Falkland Islands sovereignty dispute, according to Argentine media sources.

• Monday, June 28th 2010 - 05:57 UTC

  Missing jet engines returned to Malaysia from Uruguay, where they were found

  

  The Royal Malaysian Air Force's (RMAF) F-5E jet engines reported stolen two years ago have been brought back to the country from Uruguay.

• Monday, June 28th 2010 - 05:45 UTC

  Netherlands and Uruguay to sign treaty for exchange of fiscal data

  

  The Netherlands is planning to exchange fiscal data in future with Uruguay, Mauritius and Brunei, reports the Dutch press.

• Monday, June 28th 2010 - 05:42 UTC

  China’s central bank assesses steps to make the Yuan a global currency

  

  China must create more channels for investors and companies to use the Yuan if it wants to internationalize the currency and put it on a par with the Yen and the Euro, central bank officials and economists told a forum in Shanghai.

• Monday, June 28th 2010 - 05:34 UTC

  Five million people visited the tall ships of the Bicentennial Regatta

  

  This weekend and after five months at sea the eight tall vessels that participated in the Latinamerican Bicentennial Regatta docked in Veracruz, Mexico, the last leg of the long itinerary which was launched last February in Brazil and called at major ports in South America.

• Monday, June 28th 2010 - 01:00 UTC

  G-20 agree to cut budget deficits without stunting economic growth

  

  Leaders at the G20 summit in Canada have agreed to cut national budget deficits without stunting economic growth. Summit host Prime Minister Stephen Harper said the group's richest members should halve their deficits within three years.

• Monday, June 28th 2010 - 00:52 UTC

  Berlusconi and Italian business delegation arrive in Brazil

  

  Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is scheduled to arrive Monday with a delegation of sixty businesspeople in Brazil where he will consider with President Lula da Silva investment projects involving at least 10 billion US dollars.

• Monday, June 28th 2010 - 00:29 UTC

  Lugo calls Congress to vote for Venezuela’s Mercosur incorporation

  

  Paraguayan president Fernando Lugo called on Congress, under opposition control, to support the incorporation of Venezuela to Mercosur, as has already been voted by Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil.