Cuba's Raul Castro says he's in good shape at 80
 02.06.2011 22:05  2 views  0 comments
HAVANA (Reuters) – A day before his 80th birthday, Cuban President Raul Castro declared himself in better shape than many men 20 years younger and asked the ladies to comment on his looks. "How do I look, girls?" he said on Thursday, chatting with reporters at the Havana airport...
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LyondellBasell declares FM on PE after power outage at US plant
02.06.2011 20:55 3 views 0 comments
HOUSTON (ICIS)--LyondellBasell declared force majeure on polyethylene (PE) following a power failure earlier in the week at its plant in Morris, Illinois, sources said Thursday. The power failure occurred on Sunday following high winds and lightning, according to a filing with the National...
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Mario Vargas Llosa attacks Peru newspaper over election 'propaganda'
02.06.2011 20:42 4 views 0 comments
Nobel laureate accuses El Comercio of favouring presidential hopeful Keiko Fujimori by 'opening pages to lies and defamation' Mario Vargas Llosa, who won the Nobel prize for literature this year, was a columnist for El Comercio. Photograph: Juan Mabromata/AFP/Getty Images Mario Vargas Llosa's columns have long enlivened Peru's major daily newspaper, but his most compelling copy arrived this week in the form of an attack on the paper itself....
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Raul Castro says he's better off than many at 60
02.06.2011 18:34 2 views 0 comments
HAVANA – Raul Castro is in a jovial mood on the eve of his 80th birthday, joking...
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Debate rises over death toll in Mexico drug war
02.06.2011 18:34 5 views 0 comments
MEXICO CITY – The debate over how many have died in Mexico's 4 1/2-year-old drug war is intensifying, with the government...
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Venezuela housing shortage a headache for Chavez
02.06.2011 18:34 5 views 0 comments
CARACAS (Reuters) – The hillside slum of "Las Mayas" provides both great vistas of Caracas and an ideal view of a housing crisis shaping into a major battleground for Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's re-election bid. Along one side of the once-forested slopes, shacks of corrugated iron, wood and mud cling precariously to land that erodes a little bit further whenever it rains. Every few days, a house collapses or land slips away. At the bottom of the valley lies a possible solution: rows of neat red-brick apartments that are part of Chavez's vision of new "Socialist Cities", designed to end the South American nation's housing shortage while promoting...
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Police in Mexico find body of missing journalist
02.06.2011 15:18 4 views 0 comments
VERACRUZ, Mexico – Authorities in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz say they have found the body of a journalist who disappeared in...
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Cuba's 'rising stars' hope to rejuvenate economy
02.06.2011 11:06 5 views 0 comments
Cuba's president Raul Castro has been leading efforts to...
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Salvador to have absentee vote in 2014 election
02.06.2011 6:34 4 views 0 comments
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador – Salvadoran President Mauricio Funes says his Central American country will allow...
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Wine & spirits wholesalers once again trying to monopolize wine sales
02.06.2011 4:43 1 views 0 comments
Once again, the Wine Spirits Wholesalers of America are trying to use Congress to hand them monopoly over the sale of wine and beer in this country. U.S. Rep. Jason Chaffetz of Utah has authored a bill entitled (cynically) "Community Alcohol Regulatory Effectivness" Act (CARE, get it...), that is an attempt to get around the U.S. Supreme Court ruling from 2005 that allowed the interstate shipping of Wine. In effect, it would outlaw smaller wineries from doing business outside their states, effectively negating the Commerce Clause. In an editorial directed towards members of...
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Top FARC rebel from Colombia captured in Venezuela
02.06.2011 4:24 0 views 0 comments
BOGOTA, Colombia – Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos announced Wednesday that a top commander for the FARC rebels was captured across the border in Venezuela in a collaboration between the two countries. Venezuela has for years been a refuge for Colombia's leftist insurgents and it was not clear whether the arrest of Guillermo Torres, better known by his alias "Julian Conrado," indicates that is changing. Torres is the most senior Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia commander captured since 2004. He is on the FARC's general staff, No. 2 in the command chain after the rebels' seven-member...
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Peruvian novelist pulls column
02.06.2011 3:15 1 views 0 comments
LIMA, Peru – Novelist Mario Vargas Llosa has angrily pulled his biweekly column from Peru's dominant newspaper on the eve of the presidential runoff election, calling El Comercio "a propaganda machine" for conservative candidate Keiko Fujimori. Vargas Llosa, winner of the 2010 Nobel prize for literature, wrote the publisher accusing the newspaper of becoming "a caricature" of a serious...
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Argentina bans smoking in public places
02.06.2011 3:15 1 views 0 comments
BUENOS AIRES (AFP) – Argentine lawmakers approved a nationwide law Wednesday that would ban tobacco advertising and smoking in public places, and require warning messages on product packaging. The effort, under debate for years in Congress, and strongly opposed by the tobacco...
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FocusUS water treatment chems outlook rises on dry, hot weather
02.06.2011 2:39 1 views 0 comments
By Ruth Liao HOUSTON (ICIS)--The US outlook for water-treatment chemicals will likely be strong in the short term because of dry, hot weather through much of the country, sources said on Wednesday. In North America, the peak of the water-treatment season lasts from the US holidays of Memorial Day at the end of May to Labor Day at the start of September. The summer heat bodes well for companies such as Arch Chemicals, which makes calcium hypochlorite, used in swimming pools and spas. “We’re on track for a good...
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Raul Castro turning 80, with future on his mind
02.06.2011 1:44 0 views 0 comments
HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuban President Raul Castro turns 80 on Friday, the head of an aging government trying to preserve one of the world's last communist systems. At a time when most men have settled into retirement, Castro is directing a significant reform of Cuba's struggling economy while simultaneously casting about for younger leaders to replace him and his octogenarian colleagues. He has said many times he wants to ensure that Cuban communism goes on after the current leadership, in power since Cuba's 1959 revolution, is gone. Only time will tell if he achieves his goal. But by his own admission there are no overnight cures for...
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Top FARC rebel captured in Venezuela
02.06.2011 0:43 1 views 0 comments
BOGOTA, Colombia – Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos says a top FARC rebel has been captured in neighboring Venezuela with the...
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K+S maintaining 2015 first output date from Legacy potash project
02.06.2011 0:28 1 views 0 comments
TORONTO (miningweekly.com) – German chemicals company K+S Aktiengesellschaft is sticking to the first production in 2015 from its recently acquired Legacy potash project in Saskatchewan, but will ramp up output slower than under the previous owners plans, the company said on Wednesday. “We do not see a chance to have 2,7-million tons already...
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Trial starts in Antigua killing of honeymooners
01.06.2011 23:42 1 views 0 comments
ST. JOHN'S, Antigua – A trial has started in Antigua for two men accused of killing a newlywed British couple during an alleged...
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Prostitution latest target of Rio's Olympic change
01.06.2011 22:33 1 views 0 comments
RIO DE JANEIRO – Cris touches up her lipstick in the bar's dingy mirror, getting ready to work the rush hour in Vila Mimosa, Rio's bustling working-class prostitution zone. As dusk descends, bass-heavy music rattles metal tables on the sidewalk outside the bar, and shirtless men fire up smoky makeshift grills next to coolers of beer. Women in little more than thong bikinis or lingerie navigate the cobblestone streets, teetering on stiletto platform heels. Leaning against doorways and out of windows, they wait for clients, eyes glazed with boredom. The area is a beloved institution or a blight, depending on whom is asked. But like so much of this city that officials have deemed...
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Chile: Anarchist seriously injured by own bomb
01.06.2011 22:33 1 views 0 comments
SANTIAGO, Chile – A suspected anarchist in Chile has been seriously injured when a bomb he allegedly carried exploded outside a...
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