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Canada-Argentina mine deal scrapped

05.07.2013 16:38
Argentina has scrapped a gold-mining deal with Canadian firm Osisko, after protests by environmental campaigners. The authorities in north-western La Rioja province said they had not managed to get the consent of the people for the project. Osisko suspended work in February because of the...

Ecuador asks UK for help on embassy bug

05.07.2013 16:37
Ecuador has asked the UK to help an investigation over alleged spying at its embassy in London where Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is living. Ecuador named a British company it claimed planted a listening device in their ambassador's office but this was denied. Mr Assange has been staying at...

Peru clashes over President Humala's civil service plan

05.07.2013 16:35
Police in Peru have fired tear gas at students and civil servants protesting in the streets of the capital, Lima, against new public sector legislation. Riot police clashed with demonstrators who attempted to approach the presidential palace. President Ollanta Humala has signed into law a bill...

Mexico drops generals' drug charges

05.07.2013 16:34
Prosecutors in Mexico have dropped charges against a group of senior army officers who were accused of having links to a drugs gang. The officers, including three generals, were arrested last year and kept in a maximum security jail. They were accused of protecting members of the Beltran Leyva...

Statue of Liberty reopens on Independence Day

05.07.2013 16:19
The Statue of Liberty, shut last year after a huge storm, has reopened to the public as Americans everywhere mark Independence Day. Crowds are flocking once again to see the New York monument, which was swamped by tidal surges during post- tropical cyclone Sandy in October. Events were also held...

Bank of England new governor Carney makes fans in first week

05.07.2013 16:12
At the end of his first week at the Bank of England, Mark Carney appears to have impressed the markets, economists, and even a group of determined female protestors. Since the new governor got his feet under the desk on Monday morning, the FTSE 100 has risen around 6%. Economists welcomed the...

Popocatepetl volcano causes Mexico flight chaos

05.07.2013 16:08
US airlines have cancelled dozens of flights into Mexico City over fears that ash from a rumbling volcano would affect their planes. Delta and American were among the airlines cancelling more than 40 flights into the capital on Thursday. Popocatepetl volcano has been rumbling all year, and began...

White House delays employer mandate

05.07.2013 15:57
Bending to criticism that requirements were burdensome and complex, the Obama Administration announced late Tuesday it would delay until 2015 a key provision in the healthcare reform law - the requirement that businesses with more than 50 employees must offer them insurance. Large employers will...

US and Germany to hold talks over European NSA surveillance concerns

05.07.2013 15:29
Germany and the US will begin talks as soon as Monday, to address mounting European concerns over internet surveillance that are threatening to overshadow trade negotiations and damage Silicon Valley exports. A German government spokesman, Steffen Seibert, said a working group of high-level US and...

NSA recruitment drive goes horribly wrong

05.07.2013 15:27
the National Security Agency called at the University of Wisconsin on a recruitment drive. Attending the session was Madiha R Tahir , a journalist studying a language course at the university. She asked the squirming recruiters a few uncomfortable questions about the activities of NSA:...
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