Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Daily Headlines: December 8, 2010

* Latin America: A report by the United Nations Environment Program and major climate talks in Cancun, Mexico concluded that glaciers in the Southern Cone region of South America are melting at an alarming rate.

* Haiti: Protests continued in Port-au-Prince after Haiti's Provisional Electoral Council declared that Jude Celestin and former first lady Mirlande Manigat will face each other in a runoff for the presidency.

* Argentina: Spanish oil firm Repsol reportedly found several massive fields of natural gas reserves in the Patagonia region.

* Mexico: Is a fourteen-year-old teen accused of being a Mexican drug gang hitman also a U.S. citizen?

Image – topnews.in
Online Sources- AFP, USA TODAY, The Latin Americanist, CNN, Bloomberg

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