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Brazil delays mining bill says to reach Congress in June
Thu May 23, 2013 4:08pm EDT * Mining sector says languishing as new rules awaited * Quarter of expected Brazil mining investment on hold * Congress could shelve vote on bill By Leonardo Goy BRASILIA, May 23 (Reuters) - Brazil's government plans to submit its mining reform bill to Congress in June rather than this month, energy minister Edison Lobao said on Thursday, prolonging a wait that is ...
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Ecuador Pegasus Satellite Crashes in Space
Share/Bookmark Ecuador’s first and only satellite, Pegasus, has collided with a Russian space rocket, casting doubts over whether the portal is still in ...
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Police helicopter crashes during chase in Venezuela 5 dead
CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuelan authorities say a police helicopter has crashed while pursuing suspects in a kidnapping, and all five people aboard have been killed. Police spokesman Luis Karabin told state television that the helicopter went down Thursday in a forested area east of Caracas. The cause of the crash was not immediately clear, but Karabin cited atmospheric conditions. He said ...
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Maduros confused signals bode ill for Venezuelas recovery
Hugo Chavez , who died of cancer in March. This week the National Assembly passed funding that could make toilet paper available to Venezuelans. Maduro, who succeeded Chavez after a snap election in April, has pledged to solve Venezuela's endemic problems of shortages and slow growth and has also attempted to distance himself occasionally from Chavez. Conflicting statements on ...
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Canada Peru in military trade deal
The Canadian government and the government of Peru have agreed to cooperate on military equipment and services procurement. The office of the Prime Minister of Canada said Thursday the Memorandum of Understanding was signed Wednesday by the Canadian Commercial Corp. and the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Peru. "Under this agreement, the CCC will work with the Ministry of Defense ...
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Report At Least 1 London Terror Suspect is of Nigerian Descent
A picture of victim Drummer Lee Rigby, of the British Army's 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers is displayed with flowers left by mourners outside an army barracks near the scene of his killing in Woolwich, southeast London May 23, ...
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White House Fact Sheet on Counterterrorism Policy
Fact Sheet: U.S. Policy Standards and Procedures for the Use of Force in Counterterrorism Operations Outside the United States and Areas of Active Hostilities Since his first day in office, President Obama has been clear that the United States will use all available tools of national power to protect the American people from the terrorist threat posed by al-Qa’ida and its associated ...
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LIVE Obama Speaks on Counterterrorism
2001, we were shaken out of complacency. Thousands were taken from us, as clouds of fire, metal and ash descended upon a sun-filled morning. This was a different kind of war. No armies came to our shores, and our military was not the principal target. Instead, a group of terrorists came to kill as many civilians as they could. And so our nation went to war. We have now been at war for well ...
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Turks and Caicos recovers cash land amid probe
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -; Officials in the Turks and Caicos Islands have recovered $19.5 million and more than 2,500 acres (1,000 hectares) of real estate as they continue to seize assets improperly obtained by corrupt ...
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Brazils ANP Libra Holds 8-12B Barrels of Recoverable Oil
, the director of the National Petroleum Agency, or ANP, said Thursday. Dubbed Libra, the prospect is "singular" and is larger than the Lula field that started Brazil's pre-salt craze when announced in 2007, ANP's Magda Chambriard said. "These estimates are the most recent" after three-dimensional seismic data was received recently by the ANP, Ms. Chambriard said. ...
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India Venezuela Review Cooperation Agenda
Caracas, May 23 (Prensa Latina) Venezuelan Foreign Affairs Minister Elias Jaua met with India's ambassador in the country, Smita Purushottam, to review the bilateral cooperation agenda, reported official sources. According to the Foreign Ministry, different aspects of cooperation, integration, and negotiation were reviewed in order to increase interest in diversifying trade exchange ...
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Cuban First Vice President In Ecuador for Correa Inaguration
Quito, May 23 (Prensa Latina) Cuba''s First Vice President Miguel Diaz-Canel arrived here at the head of his country''s delegation to the inauguration of President Rafael Correa tomorrow. Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino, received visitors and Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Ana Teresita Gonzalez at the Mariscal Sucre International Airport, accompanied by Cuban ...
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UPDATE 1-Venezuelas Petrovictoria to pump 120000 bpd in 2016
Thu May 23, 2013 3:00pm EDT JOSE, Venezuela May 23 (Reuters) - Venezuela's Petrovictoria, a joint venture between state oil company PDVSA and Russia's Rosneft, will start production in 2016 and reach 120,000 barrels per day, PDVSA said on Thursday. The joint venture will produce ultra-heavy crude from the vast Orinoco Belt, a large deposit of oil in the Orinoco River basin of ...
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FARC open to public debate about rebels’ role in Colombia’s 2014 elections
Colombia’s largest rebel group, the FARC, on Thursday said to be open to the possibility of holding a public debate on their role in the upcoming 2014 ...
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Brazil Finance Minister Announces Budget Cuts
Share/Bookmark Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega announced yesterday that the country will cut 28bn reales (US$13.7 bn) in spending for this year's budget, mainly due to slower economic growth than ...
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UN World Bank Say Development is Key to Congo Peace
GOMA -- United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has been visiting the war-weary city of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), accompanied by the president of the World Bank, Jim Yong Kim. Both men stressed they see investing in development as the way out of Congo’s conflicts. The front lines outside Goma were silent on Thursday morning as Ban and Kim conducted their ...
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New Standards Approved for Extractive Industries
New performance standards have been announced (5/23) for oil, gas and mining companies, requiring them to be much more transparent in their business dealings. to De Capua report on extraction industries The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative approved the new performance standards at a meeting in Sydney, Australia. Created in 2003, the initiative includes government, ...
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Star Trek Influence Lives Long and Prospers
WASHINGTON -- Academics, professionals and Star Trek fans are once again discussing the iconic franchise's influence on society, science, and technology, as the dazzling new sci-fi ...
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Singer Piaf Songwriter Georges Moustaki Dies at 79
PARIS -- French singer and songwriter Georges Moustaki, beloved in France for his songs celebrating liberty and collaborations with Edith Piaf, died on Thursday after a long illness. He was 79. The Greek-born singer grew up in Alexandria, Egypt, and arrived in Paris in 1951, where he began to play guitar at nightclubs and met some of the period's best-known singers. He was introduced ...
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Cayman opposition will lead coalition govt
A former Cayman Islands premier who faces 11 criminal charges and was ousted from leadership last year went into Wednesday's general elections with an outside chance of returning to power in the British Overseas ...
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Brazil - Brazilian court upholds ban on development protestor
ARTICLE 19 is disappointed with the decision of a court in Sao Paulo to uphold a ban against a protester who has been campaigning against a property development in the city. The Court of Justice in the State of So Paulo has approved an injunction against the engineer and community activist Ricardo Fraga Oliveira, founder of the Movement for the Other Side of the Wall campaign.Fraga, who is a ...
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Latin American leaders unite in Colombia for Pacific Alliance summit
The heads of state of Chile, Mexico and Peru arrived in Colombia Thursday for the 7th Summit of the Pacific Alliance, a trade block of Latin American countries on the ...
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Syrian Opposition Figure Offers Transition Plan
A prominent Syrian opposition figure has proposed a transition plan for the war-torn country, requiring President Bashar al-Assad to hand power to a senior aide and leave the country with 500 ...
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US One Drone Victim Was Intent on Anti-American Terrorism
U.S. law enforcement officials say that one of the four Americans it now acknowledges killing in drone strikes was a young man who left the country for Pakistan intent on engaging in violent terrorism against the United States. Jude Kenan Mohammad had not been previously identified in news media reports as being killed by a U.S. drone attack, unlike three other Americans the government on ...
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Florida FBI Shooting May Be Linked to Boston Area Triple Slaying
U.S. news reports say a Chechen man killed in an altercation with an FBI agent implicated himself in a triple slaying that may have been connected to dead Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan ...
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