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Stories for July 2004

• Sunday, July 4th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Eight die, 40,000 suffer damages in Patagonia storm

  Eight people died and some 40.000 people suffered damages from storms pounding southern Argentina and Chile with torrential rains and heavy snow.

• Sunday, July 4th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Joint UK-Argentine naval exercises?

  The Argentine Navy is looking forward to holding naval exercises with the Royal Navy in the South Atlantic, according to the Buenos Aires press.

• Sunday, July 4th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  UK seeks effective Defence relationship with Spain.

  Answering a question from Member of Parliament Lyndsay Hoyle, United Kingdom Armed Forces Minister Adam Ingram said that the UK Government is “committed to developing an effective relationship with the new Spanish Government on all Defence matters, including those relating to Gibraltar”.

• Sunday, July 4th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  FAM: contained in Brazil; outbreak in Ecuador.

  Argentina lifted the ban on meat imports from fifteen Brazilian states, which was imposed June 23, following the outbreak of a foot and mouth disease case in the northern state of Para.

• Sunday, July 4th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  UN observers request for US presidential election.

  Several United States Congressmen have requested United Nations observers to supervise the coming November 2 US presidential elections, confirmed the UN spokesperson.

• Friday, July 2nd 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Euro zone interest rate unchanged at 2%.

  The European Central Bank decided this Thursday to leave interest rates unchanged at 2%, the lowest in half a century in the area. In its official release the ECB stated that:

• Friday, July 2nd 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Penguin News Update.

  Headlines:
  South Georgia transhipment order irritates fishing company; AWG: Memorial was not vandalised; Film to help avoid seabird mortality; Lady Slipper declared endemic; School lessons with a Chinese flavour.

• Friday, July 2nd 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Bill Rammell MP launches UK Overseas Territories inaugural newsletter.

  “The United Kingdom Overseas Territories Association is an important forum in which issues of interest and concern to the United Kingdom Overseas Territories can be discussed,” says Foreign Office Minister Bill Rammell MP, who today will launch the inaugural United Kingdom Overseas Territories Association (UKOTA) newsletter, at the CPA Room in Westminster Hall.

• Thursday, July 1st 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Australia arms vessel to combat toothfish poaching.

  Australian authorities have fitted an Antarctic research ship with machine guns in a bid to increase efforts to deter Patagonian toothfish poachers in the Southern Ocean.

• Thursday, July 1st 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Federal Reserve raises interest rate to 1,25%.

  Stating that the “risks to the attainment of both sustainable growth and price stability for the next few quarters are roughly equal”, the United States Federal Reverse Open Market Committee announced this Wednesday, after two days of deliberation that it decided to raise its target for the federal funds rate by 25 points to 1,25%. Rates were at its lowest since 1958.