Stories for July 22nd 2005
Santa Cruz police remove picketers from oilfields
Police in the southern Patagonian province of Santa Cruz arrested Thursday more than 50 people in the course of ending a takeover of a Repsol YPF oilfield. But radicals and relatives from the detainees claimed many protesters were beaten.
Washington will not tolerate return of Sandinistas
The President George Bush administration will do everything legally possible to prevent the leftist Sandinistas from returning to power in Central America's Nicaragua, said Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Roger Noriega.
China scraps currency link to the US dollar
China, Asia's second economy behind Japan revalued Thursday its currency 2%, the first time in a decade, and will let the Yuan float against a basket of currencies.
Bush pushes strongly for CAFTA
President George W. Bush used a speech Thursday at the Organization of American States headquarters in Washington to put pressure on the U.S. House of Representatives to ratify a free-trade agreement with Central America, CAFTA.
London in shock; Police call for new powers
British police called for sweeping new powers Thursday - including holding terrorism suspects for up to three months without charge - after a second wave of bombings struck London's transport system.
Palermo Show opened in Buenos Aires
A red Aberdeen Angus heifer was the first to access the Palermo grounds in Buenos Aires where Argentina's main agriculture and livestock show opened Thursday and will extend to August 2.
Argentina begins squid survey next July 25.
Next Monday 25 July a group of 16 Argentine flagged jiggers and trawlers will be participating in a shortfin squid (Illex argentinus) research survey undertaken by the Mar del Plata National Institute for Fisheries Research and Development, INIDEP.
New target date for EU-Mercosur accord: May 2006
The European Union seeks to reach an associative agreement with Mercosur in May 2006, and will attempt to achieve a breakthrough in the stagnated negotiations at a September meeting in Brussels.
Penguin News Update.
Headlines:
”Trail of destruction': man arrested; Argentine complaint at London meeting; Guilty verdicts in longline fishing cases.
