Wednesday, 15 May 2013 20:44
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GENEVA: Argentina has launched a new challenge to the European Union over the bloc's rules on the import of biofuels, the World Trade Organization said Wednesday."Argentina has notified the WTO Secretariat, on May 15, of a request for consultations with the European Union on measures imposed by the EU and/or its Member States that affect the importation and marketing of biodiesel and implementing measures as well as measures supporting the biodiesel industry," the Geneva-based body ...
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BUENOS AIRES: Jorge Rafael Videla, an austere former army commander who led Argentina during the bloodiest period of a "dirty war" dictatorship and was unrepentant about kidnappings and murders ordered by the state, died on Friday at age 87.Videla was the first president to head the military junta that "disappeared" thousands of suspected leftists from 1976 to 1983, and he spent his final years behind bars for human rights crimes, including the systematic theft of babies born to political prisoners in secret torture centers.He died of natural causes in his jail cell in a prison outside the capital, Buenos Aires, a government spokesman said."He spent his life doing great damage, which left a mark on the life of the country," Argentine human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Adolfo Perez Esquivel told Reuters. "His death ended his physical presence but not what he did to the country."Rights groups say ...
QUITO: A ring that smuggled immigrants from India and Sri Lanka into the United States through Ecuador has been broken up with the arrest of six people, Ecuadoran authorities said Thursday.Three Indian nationals and two members of Ecuador's immigration police were among the six people arrested in the port city of Guayaquil, where the smuggling network operated, officials said."They brought in nationals from India and Sri Lanka, and arranged refuge for them in various hotels," ...
GENEVA: Argentina has launched a new challenge to the European Union over the bloc's rules on the import of biofuels, the World Trade Organization said Wednesday."Argentina has notified the WTO Secretariat, on May 15, of a request for consultations with the European Union on measures imposed by the EU and/or its Member States that affect the importation and marketing of biodiesel and implementing measures as well as measures supporting the biodiesel industry," the Geneva-based body ...
SANTIAGO: A Chilean priest has been defrocked by his order for allegedly sexually abusing two minors, the country's Roman Catholic church said on Tuesday.The church had investigated the allegations against the priest, Hector Valdes, in 2008, but a new probe was ordered four years later by the archbishop of Santiago, Ricardo Ezzati.The second investigation found Valdes "guilty of the crime of sexually abusing two minors, and abuse of his ministry," the church said in a ...
CARACAS: Globovision, Venezuela's only opposition television network which had a long history of clashes with the socialist government, was sold Monday and will change its critical coverage, network officials said."Ths channel already has been sold off," the network's website said in a statement.Leopoldo Castillo, one of the new managers and a host of the "Hello Citizen" show, said it had been decided to move the channel's editorial line toward the center in the interest of ...
LONDON: Argentina has secured a total of three liquefied natural gas (LNG) cargoes for delivery this year from oil major BP, Norway's Statoil and US bank Morgan Stanley, trade sources said.Latin America's No. 3 economy has struggled to source its record LNG requirement of 83 cargoes for this year as it tries to offset falling domestic supplies amid surging demand.In its latest tender launched in April, state-run oil company YPF asked global suppliers to submit ...
BUENOS AIRES: Argentina is embroiled in a high-stakes legal dispute with "holdout" creditors who shunned debt swaps that the South American country hoped would put its 2002 default to rest.US courts jolted markets last year by ruling in favor of a group of holdouts that had sued for full repayment on their defaulted bonds after rejecting debt exchanges in 2005 and 2010.Argentina was ordered to pay the holdouts the full $1.33 billion owed them the ...
