Cairo (dpa) – Egypt plans to lure more tourists from Asia and South America – rather than crisis-hit Europe – to give the sector a push after last year’s unrest, Minister of Tourism Munir Fakhri Abdul-Nur said on Sunday. The number of tourists who visited Egypt dropped by 30 percent due to unrest that began [...]
Washington (dpa) – The United States on Friday urged Latin American countries not to strengthen ties with Iran as President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad prepares to visit the region. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told reporters that the Iranian regime is reaching out for friends as it comes under increased international pressure over its nuclear program. “We [...]
Buenos Aires (dpa) – Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner was recovering well Wednesday, after undergoing surgery for thyroid cancer. “No problems or complications” arose during the three-and-a-half-hour operation at the Hospital Austral, in the Buenos Aires suburb of Pilar, said government Spokesman Alfredo Scoccimarro. Scoccimarro said Fernandez de Kirchner, 58, would remain in hospital [...]
LOS ANGELES and CAIRO: Chevron has been fined $9.5 billion dollars over environmental damage it created in Ecuador’s Amazon region. The appeals court in the county upheld the decision late Tuesday, but Chevron called it “illegitimate.” “Today’s decision is another glaring example of the politicization and corruption of Ecuador’s judiciary, which has plagued this fraudulent [...]
LOS ANGELES: Animal rights activists and local farmers are fomenting over a recent purchase of approximately 30,000 acres of farmland by a Saudi Arabian dairy company. The sale of Argentina’s farm operator Fondomonte for some $83 million by Saudi’s Almarai Company is to secure access to animal feed, the company said on Sunday. The sale [...]
Santiago (dpa) – Around 5,000 hectares of woodland have been ravaged by a fire that remains out of control in the Chilean Patagonian national park Torres del Paine, Chilean authorities confirmed Friday. “It is a very worrying situation,” said Vicente Nunez, head of the National Emergency Bureau of Chile’s Interior Ministry. The flames are destroying [...]
Bogota (dpa) – Shooting real bullets into the air is a worrying Christmas season tradition in troubled Colombia, and it is hardly amusing: over 700 people have been killed and close to 2,000 have been injured by stray bullets in the past 10 years. Access to firearms is relatively widespread in a country which has [...]
Buenos Aires (dpa) – Former Argentine dictator Reynaldo Bignone was Thursday handed a further 15-year jail term for crimes against humanity during the 1976-83 military regime in the South American country. Some 30,000 people, most of whose bodies have never been found, are believed to have been killed during the regime. Bignone, now 85, was [...]
Caracas (dpa) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez speculated late Wednesday that the United States may be to blame for a spate of cancers among Latin American leaders. The left-wing leader, who earlier this year underwent an operation to remove a tumor, did not rule out the possibility that the US had developed a secret technology [...]
Rio de Janeiro (dpa) – More than 1 million children aged 10-14 continue to work in Brazil, despite government moves against child labor, the daily Folha de Sao Paulo reported Wednesday. The report, citing census data collected by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), shows however that the efforts of the authorities have [...]
Sao Paulo (dpa) – Brazil will overtake France to become the world’s fifth-largest economy by 2015 at the latest, Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega said Tuesday in Sao Paulo. “The International Monetary Fund expects Brazil to be the fifth economy in 2015, but I think that will happen earlier,” Mantega said at a textiles industry [...]
Estela* looks at herself in the shop’s mirror while she tries a big winter coat. She seems like any other traditional Egyptian Muslim wearing a discrete hijab and Jallabiya that generously cover her well-rounded curves. At least until a few minutes later when, with a distinct Peruvian Spanish and a playful smile, she asks her [...]
The current Guinness Book of World Records title holder of “Oldest Woman Alive” is the American Besse Cooper. Cooper is 115-years-old, and her age has been verified. There could be a new record holder in Brazil however, as a tribal rights group say they found a woman that is 121-years-old. Maria Lucimar Pereira is [...]
Chile got back into contention for the 2014 World Cup after a 2-0 victory over Paraguay. Uruguay crushed Chile in the previous fixture so a win in front of their home crowd was vital to their campaign. Paraguay had just recorded a win against Ecuador and were hoping to add a second consecutive victory. [...]
Argentina got back to their winning ways with a comeback victory against Colombia in CONMEBOL World Cup Qualifying. Lionel Messi and Sergio Agüero guided the Albiceleste to a 2-1 against a Colombia side with high expectations coming into the match. It is fair to say that recently Argentina has not been playing up to [...]
Uruguay remain unbeaten in World Cup Qualifying after annihilating Chile 4-0. Liverpool striker Luis Suarez was the main force of destruction by scoring all four of the goals. Uruguay now sit in first place with seven points and Chile are second to bottom with three points. It is still early in the qualifying but these [...]
“Green Jobs,” a phrase coined to describe employment that contributes to preserve or restore the environment. The phrase is being adopted by companies that are responding to the social demand for a cleaner economy. The term “green jobs” is appropriate for Brazil; according to the International Labor Organization (ILO) Brazil has approximately 2.6 million jobs [...]
CAIRO: Bob Bradley and the Egyptian Football Association announced the squad that will take part in the friendly match against Brazil in Doha on November 14. The list contains some surprises both because of inclusions and exclusions to the team. Most notably left off the team sheet for the upcoming match against the five-times world [...]
Following from the United Nations General Assembly in New York last month, where Mahmood Abbas, president of the Palestinian National Authority petitioned the international organization for the creation of an independent Palestinian state, Abbas announced an unexpected Latin American tour, whose intentions remain a matter of debate. Abbas traveled first to the Dominican Republic where [...]
The head of the United Nations agency that defends press freedom on Monday condemned the killing of an Iranian journalist in an attack in neighbouring Afghanistan, and called for better safety for journalists working in the troubled Asian country. Farhad Taqaddosi, a cameraman working for Press TV, was severely injured during a Taliban attack in [...]
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