Stories for September 2003 , page 4

Saturday, September 20th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

IMF approves Argentina's program, but?.

After two long months of tough negotiations, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund approved this Saturday the three years 12,5 billion US dollars agreement reached with Argentina. The board meeting was presided by First Deputy Managing Director Anne Krueger and extended for over three hours

Saturday, September 20th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

French Request for Argentine Rejected.

A federal judge today Saturday rejected a French request to extradite a former Argentine naval captain wanted in the deaths of two French nuns killed during Argentina's Dirty War.

Friday, September 19th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

Penguin News Friday 19th update

Headlines: Portillo to support Falklands at Argentine/British conference?; Watch your feet; Meat overboard; Penguins online; ExCo approve issue of Falklands £2 coin; Blonde angel arrest; Gurkhas recorded.

Friday, September 19th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

Fisheries News.

Headlines:
Vigo all decked out for World Fishing Exhibition; Chilean shipyard booming with foreign orders; Merger with Chilean group boosts fishery potential; Russia plans aggressive fishing expansion; China agrees to cooperate in jack mackerel fishery; Seafood trade barriers could disappear by 2005; Growing overseas resistance to EU fisheries policy; Japan signs agreement with Solomon Islands.

Thursday, September 18th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

OAS support for mine clearance in Chile.

The Organization of American States, OAS, will provide technical assistance to Chile for the elimination of antipersonnel mine inventories. An agreement was signed this week in Washington under which OAS will help Chile “with the elimination of stockpiles, acquisition of special equipment and obtaining international financial support for mine clearance operations”.

Thursday, September 18th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

Petrobras oil production 2,1 million barrels/day.

The average oil and natural gas daily production of Petrobas in Brazil and abroad during August reached 2,091,506 barrels, a 2,6% expansion over July and 12,2% above twelve months ago.

Thursday, September 18th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

Weather blocks South Pole rescue.

Snow and winds gusting to more than 45 mph grounded two planes Monday, delaying the rescue of a seriously ill man working at the United States' South Pole research station.

Wednesday, September 17th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

Fed leaves rate unchanged at 1%.

The United States Federal Open Market Committee decided this Tuesday to keep its target for the federal funds rate at 1 percent. FOMC argued that “the risk of inflation becoming undesirably low remains the predominant concern for the foreseeable future”

Wednesday, September 17th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

Pinochet's legacy on the spotlight.

Human rights militants protested this weekend the presence in the port of Buenos Aires of the Chilean Navy school vessel “Esmeralda” which is claimed that during the military regime of General Pinochet became a centre of “torture and extermination”.

Wednesday, September 17th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

US requests Mercosur troops for Iraq.

The Bush administration has begun contacts with governments of three major Mercosur members with the purpose of inviting them to participate in a 15,000 strong multinational peace keeping force in Iraq.