Argentine president calls for greater cooperation

September 23rd, 2009 Chinese president says all nations linkedUNITED NATIONS — Chinese President Hu Jintao is linking his country's future progress with greater world prosperity. Hu told world leaders gathered Wednesday for the annual U.N.

May 20th, 2009 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - Animation content provider Toonz Animation and Argentina's Illusion Studios have inked a co-production deal to produce a 90-minute 3D animated feature film based on the famous Argentine comic strip Gaturro. Created by Christian Dzwonik, the film 'Gaturro' chronicles the fun love story of two cats, protagonist Gaturro and Agatha.

May 8th, 2009 BRASILIA/BUENOS AIRES - Brazil and Argentina have joined the growing list of countries that have confirmed infections of swine flu within their borders. Brazil reported four cases as Health Minister Jose Gomes Temporao declared: 'The virus has arrived in Brazil.' The four patients were doing well, he said Thursday.

March 28th, 2009 BUENOS AIRES - Thousands of people gathered Friday to buy tickets for Argentina's game against Venezuela in Buenos Aires, which was set to be Argentine football legend Diego Maradona's first official match as national team coach. The queue was more than 700 metres long to get one of the 13,000 'popular' tickets for the Monumental stadium, the cheapest option available at around $10 each, to watch the historic game on site.

March 15th, 2009 BUENOS AIRES - Argentine President Cristina Fernandez has proposed to hold Congressional elections four months earlier than scheduled to allow the government focus more on fighting the economic crisis. But analysts and opponents have called it a political gimick.

March 11th, 2009 TEHRAN - Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari arrived in Tehran Tuesday to attend the 10th Summit of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) and discuss plans for a gas pipeline linking the two countries with India. Zardari and his Iranian and Afghan counterparts Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Hamid Karzai are scheduled to have a trilateral meeting prior to the summit Wednesday on security in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

March 4th, 2009 BUENOS AIRES - Retired Argentina football striker Gabrial Batistuta has now switched sports and made his formal debut as a polo player alongside his friend and compatriot Adolfo Cambiaso. In a game that was played Monday in Canuelas, some 50 kilometres southwest of Buenos Aires, Batistuta - the most prolific striker in the history of the Argentine national team - scored two goals on horseback, although he missed several others.

February 17th, 2009 BUENOS AIRES - A Bahamas-flagged cruise ship with 104 people onboard has run aground off Antarctica, an Argentine news channel reported. The Ocean Nova has been stuck on a sandbank near the Antarctic base of San Marin since early Tuesday, C5N said.

February 6th, 2009 GREATER NOIDA - A student allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself from the hook in the roof of his room in Greater Noida, police said Saturday. The body of Yogesh Dubey, 20, was found from his rented room in a house at Gamma sector of Greater Noida, the police said.

February 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - India and the US signed an agreement for cooperation in production and marketing of biofuels here Tuesday. As per a government release, the agreement's purpose 'is to establish a framework of cooperation covering scientific, technical and policy aspects of production, conversion, utilisation, distribution and marketing of biofuels in a sustainable and environmentally friendly manner'.

January 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Long-term cooperation in the supply of Kazakh uranium for nuclear reactors will help in solving India's power demand, said Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev here Saturday. 'Long-term cooperation (in supply of uranium) will lead to the solving of India's problem of power,' he said in his address at a business meet jointly organised by industry chambers.

January 23rd, 2009 TASHKENT - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has said that Moscow is ready to cooperate with NATO on the Afghan issue, even as he has welcomed US President Barack Obama's plans to review US policy in the war-ravaged nation. 'We hope the new US administration will have greater success than the previous one in resolving the Afghanistan issue,' Medvedev said Friday on the second day of his two-day visit to Uzbekistan.

January 19th, 2009 WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama in his inaugural speech reiterated his commitment of American troopers leaving Iraq 'to its people'. 'Our power alone cannot protect us, nor does it entitle us to do as we please… Our security emanates from the justness of our cause, the force of our example, the tempering qualities of humility and restraint,' Obama said in his speech.

January 18th, 2009 NEW DELHI - External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee Monday called for greater cooperation between India and Africa, saying the potential for bilateral trade between the two was more than what is reflected by existing trade levels. 'I call upon Indian and African business partners to step up their business engagements, Existing trade and investment levels do not reflect the true potential.

December 24th, 2008 NEW DELHI - In the wake of the terrorist attack on Mumbai from the sea route, India and the Maldives have decided to scale up anti-piracy and marine counter-terrorism operations in the Indian Ocean. Underlining the importance of greater maritime surveillance in the Indian Ocean, Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed, popularly known as 'Anni', Thursday said the Mumbai attacks have 'all the footprints of a 16th century piracy activity in the Indian Ocean'.