Uruguay

SAO PAULO (AP) — A Brazilian airliner made a forced landing after a passenger reportedly attacked a pilot and crew members. The TAM Airlines jet was en route from Montevideo, Uruguay, to Sao Paulo when a man entered the cockpit an hour into the flight.The plane veered right as the man apparently attacked the pilot, who yelled for help.Uruguay's Industry Minister Roberto Kreimerman was aboard and told the El Observador newspaper everybody...  

LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Taylor Paris scored a hat-trick as Canada booked its place in the final four of the USA Sevens Bowl competition with a 29-0 victory against Uruguay on Saturday. Sean Duke scored the Canadians first try and Jeffery Hassler their fifth ...  

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — A delegation of Uruguayan wool producers is visiting the Falkland Islands to advise their counterparts there, a trip that comes at the same time their government is supporting Argentina's dispute with Britain over who owns the ...  

Giant glass doors slid open on to a teak deck and black granite ... and people were selling jewellery, wind chimes and miniature lighthouses made out of seashells. Handwritten posters advertised trips to view the sea lions and fur seal colonies, about ...  

Mujica said tourism became almost the first sector of the national ... including demands for him to get tougher with Argentina. But he said the Executive prefers to follow another path "putting the ball down on the field and negotiating, but at the same ...  

Following a positive, although error-laden, performance in their Six Nations opener, fly-half Kris Burton (C), pictured here in February 2011, hopes Italy can demonstrate against England on Saturday that their new attacking approach is here to stay.  

Sarasota Herald-Tribune (blog)Three cheers for UruguaySarasota Herald-Tribune (blog)... been shot at by a missile, the Germans reported the near miss to flight controllers in Brazil, Uruguay contacted the Argentine military, and the paperwork on what became an international incident wound up on the desk of president Tabaré Vázquez.  

MONTEVIDEO — Every student in South America can identify Montevideo as the capital of Uruguay. The way things are going, every student in South America will soon be  

RAUL O. GARCES= MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — Uruguay's president has approved a $513,000 payment to Macarena Gelman, who was illegally adopted during the dictatorship after her mother was tortured and disappeared. The payment complies with an Inter ...  

• A version of this post ran on the author's blog, Insightcrime.com. The views expressed are the author's own. Uruguay has long been one of the safest countries in Latin America, but some are warning that the influence of organized crime is on ...  

MONTEVIDEO, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- Uruguayan club Penarol won a four-team International Friendly Tournament in Montevideo ... who were always on the attack Sunday night in the legendary National Stadium of Montevideo, local media said Monday.  

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Dec. 20 (UPI) -- Uruguay's solidarity with Argentina in support of Buenos Aires' claim over British-ruled Falklands is costing the port capital's economy dear as Falklanders disappear from the scene as lucrative custom. Falklands...  

2012-01-28 06:56:47 - New Retailing market report from Euromonitor International: "Non-grocery Retailers in Uruguay" In 2011, after the boom in sales of TV sets in 2010, due to the FIFA World Cup, consumer spending was favoured by a significant increase in ...  

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — A former Uruguayan navy chief who took a stand for democracy during a 1973 military uprising has been buried with full military honors. Juan Jose Zorrilla was buried Friday, one day after he died at age 91. Download ...  

MONTEVIDEO, Dec. 23 (Xinhua) -- Uruguay's Foreign Minister Luis Almagro Friday defended his country's decision to ban ships from Malvinas Islands (called Falkland Islands in Britain) from docking at Uruguayan ports. Almagro told reporters he had talked ...