MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for April 2006
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Saturday, April 29th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Mirage Dagger plaza to remember “fire baptism”
Argentina's Air Force “fire baptism” next May first will be commemorated with the exhibition in Santa Cruz province of the first Mirage Dagger to enter combat in the 1982 Falkland Islands conflict against Great Britain.
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Saturday, April 29th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Airbus A380 to make its debut at London Heathrow
The world's largest commercial airliner, the 555 seat Airbus A380, will
make its British debut when it flies into London's Heathrow Airport on 18th May 2006
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Saturday, April 29th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Argentine Air Force exercise in Patagonia
The Argentine Air Force operating from Patagonia is currently involved in air exercise “Pegasus” which is scheduled to last until next May 5.
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Saturday, April 29th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
US economy expands 4.8% in first quarter
The US economy sprinted 4.8% in the first quarter of 2006, the fastest rate in two and a half years, following on a modest 1.7% in the last quarter of 2005 according to the Commerce Department.
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Saturday, April 29th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Falklands warm-up for ?a bit of a ride' through the Americas.
“We thought we were just going for a bit of a ride”. The speaker was 49 year old, Mick Daly, expressing some mild surprise at the amount of interest generated by his plan to join his old army colleague, Mick Simpson, in a motor bike ride from Ushuaia, Argentina, the most southerly town in Latin America, to Prudhoe Bay in Alaska.
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Friday, April 28th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
China raises rates to cool economy but, US unmoved
US Treasury Department described China's Central Bank decision to raise its one year lending interest rates from 5.58 to 5.85% as “positive”, but demanded more flexibility for the Yuan in money exchange markets.
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Friday, April 28th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Argentine squid industry complains low prices
Since the beginning of the squid season last January 16 and the end of March, Argentina's Illex landings reached 123.845 tons, up 71.5% from the same period last year reported the Fisheries Undersecretariat in Buenos Aires.
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Friday, April 28th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Lan Chile profits surge in first quarter
Chile's flag air carrier Lan saw profits soar 72% in the first quarter of this year compared to the same period in 2005.
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Friday, April 28th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Kirchner celebrates IMF Krueger's departure
Argentine president Nestor Kirchner celebrated Thursday the announced departure from the International Monetary Fund of Deputy Managing Director Anne Krueger with whom his administration has had a permanent irritating confrontation.
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Friday, April 28th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Penguin News Update.
Headlines:
Getting Memorial Wood ready for 2007; ?South Atlantic 25' announced; Dry-dock delayed; Indecent images found: man pleads guilty
