LATIN AMERICA News, Aug 29, 2011

India attempting to deepen trade ties with Latin America Livemint Exports to Latin American countries rose 72.5% in 2010-11 to $10.7 billion (`49327 crore), according to latest commerce ministry data. However, India shares a trade deficit of $3.2 billion with the continent, with imports growing at 34% to $14 billion ... See all stories on this topic »

Arianespace... South American-Based Soyuz Stable (Launch) SatNews Publishers The latest ATV, Edoardo Amaldi, is currently being brought by ship to Kourou. "Its scheduled launch is February 28 2012," said Le Gall, who said there was "a small margin" for bringing it forward if need be, but this would only be by a few days given ... See all stories on this topic » SatNews Publishers

Bluefield Prepares for Coal Show State Journal Registrations have been received from China, South America and South Africa. “It's a big deal,” Meachum said. “This is the largest exhibition of underground mining equipment in the eastern United States. We're expecting between 6000 and 7000 to attend ... See all stories on this topic » State Journal

Hugo Chavez continues battle with cancer The State Column The third round of cancer treatment takes place three months after it was revealed that the Latin American leader is suffering from cancer. Mr. Chavez underwent surgery in Cuba that removed a cancerous tumor from his pelvic region in June. ... See all stories on this topic »

Sydney Anglicans and the threat to world Anglicanism ABC Online Similarly, there are links with conservative movements in the Church of Ireland, in the New Zealand church, in South Africa, and in the US and Canada. Sydney Diocese has also been closely involved in the formation of the breakaway Anglican Church of ... See all stories on this topic » ABC Online

Ten things to know about Farm Progress Show Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette The concert will be at Richland Community College, just south of the Farm Progress Show exhibit field. Gates open at 5 pm Tickets for the concert (which are not included in the admission price to the regular Farm Progress Show) cost $15 in advance and ... See all stories on this topic »

Madness on the high seas TheChronicleHerald.ca In The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, Laffoley takes a look at the gruesome axe-killings of a ship's captain, second mate and the captain's wife as the Herbert Fuller sailed for South America from Boston with a load of lumber. ... See all stories on this topic »

State Dept. Aggressively Pushed Genetically-Modified Crops to Help ... AllGov US officials have used “outreach programs” in Africa, Asia and South America, where Western biotech agriculture has not been established. In one cable, American diplomats sought funding from Washington to send US biotech experts and trade industry ... See all stories on this topic » AllGov

Montreal fest wild for Belgian comedy Variety The Glauber Rocha Award for Latin American Film went to Sergio Teubal's Argentinian-Mexican co-production "The Finger." Documentary award was shared by Matej Minac's Slovakian-Czech pic "Nicky's Family" and Marina Goldovskaya's Swedish-Russian pic ... See all stories on this topic » Variety

Artist who turned Kalashnikov's into guitars inspired title of our new album ... Scottish Daily Record And a trip to South America by frontman Rich Archer helped him broaden his musical horizons for the follow-up to the altogether darker Once Upon A Time In The West. Rich, who made the trip with his girlfriend, soaked up the different cultures he ... See all stories on this topic »

How the Serve Went Over the Top New York Times “Most of the countries that play soccer — all of Europe, South America and even Africa — built clay courts,” Faribault said. “And the serve, not being a weapon on clay, didn't receive as much emphasis. A lot of the clay-court players just spun in a ... See all stories on this topic » New York Times

Organized Crime and its Dominion in Mexico & Central America Mexidata.info Law enforcement officials are faced with private and commercial aircraft transporting multi-tons of drugs from South America into Central America for distribution north. Venezuela and Honduras are main conduits among these trafficking routes. ... See all stories on this topic »

Chuck Raasch: Give the freshmen some slack The News Journal “Amazon has never been just a river in South America.” - “The only significant labor disputes in their lifetimes have been in major league sports.” - “There have always been at least two women on the Supreme Court, and women have always commanded US ... See all stories on this topic »

Nuclear threat from the Korean Peninsula The Voice of Russia Americans are always clever, they did not want to pay and they wanted to make SouthKorea and Japan to pay for that, for supply of energy resources, but when those countries decided that it is a bug burden for them, Americans washed their hands and the ... See all stories on this topic » The Voice of Russia

USA star Hyleas Fountain leads heptathlon after two events USA Today DAEGU, South Korea (AP) – Hyleas Fountain of the United States took the early lead after two events in the heptathlon at the world championships on Monday. By Matt Dunham, AP American Hyleas Fountain won the 100-meter hurdles and high jump portions of ... See all stories on this topic » USA Today

The Shrewd Transfer Policy of Villarreal Spanishfootball.info South America is a hotbed for talent, with abundance to choose from and players being relatively cheap and Villarreal have found the perfect model to make money. The likes of Diego Godín, Gonzalo Rodríguez, Birmingham flop Luciano Figueroa, ... See all stories on this topic » Spanishfootball.info

Tropical Storm Irene wreaks havoc in southern Vermont BurlingtonFreePress.com The most-recent public statement from Vermont Emergency Management can now be found at the end of this story. The statement includes the latest road closures, which are extensive and include major state and US routes and various local roads in large ... See all stories on this topic »

Nashville or Nuremburg? American Thinker (blog) Gibson Chairman Henry Juszkiewicz was livid at this latest bullying of Gibson by the US Justice Department. In 2009, they had staged a similar raid and, while no charges have been filed, the DOJ refuses to return the confiscated property. ... See all stories on this topic »

Casino attacks prompt police force overhaul in Mexico National Post (blog) Rooting out corruption in the police has taken time, and the past two years have seen a sharp rise in drug-related killings in Nuevo Leon, notably in Monterrey, which was once seen as a role model forLatin American development. ... See all stories on this topic »

Profit From High Iron Ore Prices With Cliffs Natural Resources Seeking Alpha In the latest quarter, this segment was split into American iron ore and Canadian iron ore as a result of Canadian acquisitions, but as these did not affect the past year's results, this split will be ignored for the time being. Production in 2010 was ... See all stories on this topic »

Whither political accountability? Republica ... country in three decades, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as a hero for stabilizing Brazil´s hyper-inflation and making it an economic power in South America, and Paul Kagame as having made the difference in Rwanda after the genocidal killing of 1994. ... See all stories on this topic »

The Man Who Declared Himself Emperor of the US Voice of America (MUSIC) STEVE EMBER: The small city of Colma, California is just a few kilometers south of San Francisco. Many people visit the city each year to see the burial place of one very unusual man in Colma's Woodlawn Cemetery. These visitors come to see a ... See all stories on this topic »

This Week in Flagler and Tallahassee: Scott at the Chamber, Early Voting and ... FlaglerLive.com Pinellas County also has a concentrated African-American population, in south St. Petersburg, that is drawn into districts that have made it likely that black lawmakers – or at least Democrats – will represent the area, for example, Rep. ... See all stories on this topic » FlaglerLive.com

Outdoor Briefs (8/29/11) Log Cabin Democrat Originating in South America, it surfaced on Lake Hamilton approximately four years ago, but only recently started being a problem for some lakefront property owners. GREENBRIER — The first Greenbrier Great Outdoors Expo is scheduled for Saturday, ... See all stories on this topic »

Opinion: Veterans of the CIA's secret air force denied again Vancouver Sun A report to the United States Congress by the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) late last month argued retirement benefits should not be given to the 500 or so surviving employees of Air America, the CIA-owned air force that was an essential part ... See all stories on this topic »

New York escapes worst IRENE MAY COST BILLIONS IN DAMAGE Arab Times Kuwait English Daily Localized flooding occurred in the south and east of Manhattan, with more serious incidents in Brooklyn, where the famed Coney Island amusement park took a battering and outlying beaches were swamped. There was particularly heavy flooding along the ... See all stories on this topic »

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SYRIA News, Aug 29, 2011

Israel's chance amid change Boston Globe Turkey today has pressing reasons to repair relations with Israel. Most obvious is Erdogan's belated disenchantment with the gangster regime of Bashar Assad in Syria. Before the current Syrian revolt against that regime, Erdogan made a big show of ... See all stories on this topic »

Assad to implement media reform as Syrian protesters vow to continue struggle Ha'aretz The Turkish president was referring to unfulfilled promises by Syria's President BasharAssad to stop the crackdown which has so far 2200 according to the United NationsHuman Rights organization. "Today in the world there is no place for authoritarian ... See all stories on this topic » Ha'aretz

Syrian troops enter Lebanon border town: activists AFP Earlier this month UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad told him in a telephone conversation that he had halted military operations against protesters. But the UN chief a week ago said Assad had failed to keep his ... See all stories on this topic » AFP

Al-Assad: backed himself into a corner Globe and Mail The attacks on Syrian civilians make an arguably a stronger case in Syria than there was in Libya for the invocation of the United Nations' comparatively new responsibility-to-protect doctrine. But the NATO countries that took part in the Libyan ... See all stories on this topic » Globe and Mail

Conflicting Iranian Positions vis-à-vis Syrian President Assad MEMRI (blog) At the same time, he urged Assad to pay serious heed to the just demands of his people. Former Iranian ambassador to the UN and to China, Ali Khorram, said that supporting Assad at the present time only harmed Iran, and that it should support the ... See all stories on this topic »

Success of armed Libya revolt adds new leaf to 'Arab Spring' Sacramento Bee Some detect such rumblings in Syria, where President Bashar Assad has battered protesters with tanks and gunboats, killing at least 2200 people, according to the United Nations. "There is a lot at stake, and the (Syrian) regime is giving no other ... See all stories on this topic »

Palestinian refugees in Syria remain in the crossfire Catholic Online By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) The brutal crackdown in Syria on the part of the government of President Bashar al-Assad - which has killed 2200 civilian protestors, according to figures gathered by the United Nations, is especially troublesome ... See all stories on this topic »

Lebanon to vote in favor of Palestine The Daily Star Whereas domestic and Arab division over UN action in Syria meant that Lebanon last month disassociated itself from a statement condemning President Bashar Assad'ssecurity crackdown on popular protests, Lebanon will likely be free to vote in favor of ... See all stories on this topic » The Daily Star

Jordanians Pay Price as Syria Roils The Media Line The 34-year-old former soldier is seeking asylum with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). “I can't return to Syria as long as the Al-Assad regime is ruling. They arrested my brother and destroyed my house after I ... See all stories on this topic »

MBC axes show in solidarity with Syrian people Rapid tv news Al Arabiya, MBC's Arabic news station, reports that Kordahi said the escalating internal protests against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad were the result of “a foreign conspiracy” and that the “Arab Spring” had “sown chaos across the Arab world”. ... See all stories on this topic »

Russia stands on wrong side of Arab Spring The National The same applies to Syria. The way Moscow has been handling the Syrian issue at the UN Security Council is deluding Mr Al Assad's regime into believing that it is ultimately immune to international pressure, the editor added. ... See all stories on this topic »

LEADERSHIP: What Tyrants Learned From Libya Strategy Page August 28, 2011: Now that Libyan dictator Moamar Kaddafi has lost control of his country, BasherAssad, the second generation Assad running Syria, is paying close attention to what Kaddafi did wrong. The most obvious error was to make too many enemies ... See all stories on this topic »

Arab Revolution through Egyptian Eyes Ahram Online In 2006, during Israel's attack on Lebanon, a delegation of pro-resistance Egyptian activists and intellectuals visited Syria for negotiations with Bashar El-Assad. But since revolution broke out in 2011, many have shifted their stand. ... See all stories on this topic »

Syrian gov't troops kill 2 armed near capital: witness People's Daily Online US President Barak Obama last week made his explicit call for al-Assad to step aside, underscoring the tough talk with new sanctions that hit the largest state-owned Commercial Bank of Syria and the SyriaTel cell phone operator. ... See all stories on this topic »

Syria profile - Overview BBC News Baath government has seen authoritarian rule at home and a strong anti-Israeli policy abroad, particularly under former President Hafez al-Assad. In 1967 Syria lost the Golan Heights to the Israelis, while civil war in neighbouring Lebanon allowed it ... See all stories on this topic »

Questions over Libya's future after fall of dictator Green Left Weekly In Syria, President Bashar al-Assad has shown he share's Gaddafi's willingness to use military force, including heavy artillery, to crush protests. There is no reason to believe that when Assad's forces brutally retook cities such as Hama they showed ... See all stories on this topic » Green Left Weekly

Hidden costs of Israel delegitimization SanFranciscoSentinel.com ... his own citizens and the Palestinian refugees living in Syria since 1948 committed by Syriandictator Bashar Assad; the hope of bolstering the Palestinians' UN statehood bid in September; the desire to stir up tensions between Israel and Egypt. ... See all stories on this topic »

What's next for Libya? Deccan Chronicle Seeing how the resolution on Libya was stretched, Russia and some in the Arab world are reluctant to arm the West with UN' authority to intervene in Syria. Europe, in any case, is counting the cost of its air warfare over Libya in today's straightened ... See all stories on this topic »

Palestinian Statehood – Kalaam Faadi Swans This has had the effect of turning the victims into the "terrorists" and war criminals, such as the late Slobodan Milosevic, the judicially murdered Saddam Hussein, now Gadhafi, and Assad, Hamas, and other Palestinians, and no doubt many others to come ... See all stories on this topic »

Cameron must quit 'playing God' while he is ahead Irish Independent The threat to a regime from incisive satire was seen last week by an assault on Syria's leading political cartoonist, who was left for dead in a street. One of the last cartoons he drew before the attack showed the Syrian president, Bashar Assad, ... See all stories on this topic »

Gaddafi to The Hague The Guardian The slogans in the Syrian streets this week say "Assad to The Hague". There is an expectation of justice that has arisen in the Arab spring, and Cameron must not disappoint it. "Gaddafi to The Hague" will send a chilling signal to all other governments... See all stories on this topic » The Guardian

Caricom and Libya Stabroek News Even if they really didn't know enough about history to come up with comparable examples, they might have adverted their attention to Syria, where there has been no armed uprising, and where President Assad's military forces have been shooting down ... See all stories on this topic »

Russia steps up UN battle over Syria Day Press News United Nations- Russia on Friday stepped up UN Security Council hostilities overSyria by proposing a resolution without sanctions to rival a Europe-US call to directly target President Bashar al-Assad. Vitaly Churkin, Russia's ambassador at UN accused... See all stories on this topic » Day Press News

Army fights defectors near Damascus - residents swissinfo.ch How many will it be today? Clearly we have reached a point where anything would be too little too late. We have lost our confidence." Assad's closest ally, Shi'ite Iran, with which he has been strengthening ties to the disquiet of Syria's Sunni ... See all stories on this topic » swissinfo.ch

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