MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for June 2006
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Sunday, June 25th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Falklands' Councillor does not rule out independence
A Falkland Islands elected Councillor said in Chile that full independence from the United Kingdom in the future is not ruled out.
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Sunday, June 25th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Argentina targets Falklands' “sovereignty umbrella”
A “drastic change” in Argentina's policy towards the Falklands/Malvinas dispute including a dismantling of the “sovereignty umbrella” was openly admitted by President Nestor Kirchner's administration in reports published over the weekend in Buenos Aires main dailies and attributed to sources with access to the “president's office”.
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Saturday, June 24th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Kirchner's populist pals criticized
A day after President Néstor Kirchner spoke up for the presidents of Bolivia and Venezuela in a joint press conference with the Spanish Primer Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, the Spanish press was not satisfied with the visiting head-of-state's words.
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Saturday, June 24th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Varig, and 28.000 Brazilians overseas grounded
A bankruptcy judge annulled Friday the sale of Brazil flag carrier Varig airlines after a workers' group failed to make the first required payment. The decision threatens to leave thousands of Brazilians football fans stranded in Germany.
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Saturday, June 24th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Garcia/Chavez rift widens and ties could be severed
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called Peruvian elected president Alan Garcia a United States “lap puppy” and put in doubt the outcome of the recent elections in Peru.
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Saturday, June 24th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Morales accepts defeat and declares he's Catholic
Bolivian president Evo Morales said Friday he was Catholic and admitted praying regularly to ask favours from God and therefore will not eliminate religion classes in Bolivian government schools.
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Saturday, June 24th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Lula confirms re-election bid and leads 3 to 1 in polls
Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva announced Saturday in Brasilia his re-election bid for the coming general election next October 1.
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Friday, June 23rd 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Penguin News Update
Headlines:
OBE for our Norma - Meningitis confirmed - ?Cool but polite': Falklands meets Argentine C24 delegation - OBE for our Norma - Meningitis confirmed.
News in brief:
Michael's honours - Take a chilly dip - Indecent images lead to prison. -
Friday, June 23rd 2006 - 21:00 UTC
End of XXth century hottest in 400 years
There is sufficient evidence from tree rings, boreholes, retreating glaciers, and other “proxies” of past surface temperatures to say with a high level of confidence that the last few decades of the 20th century were warmer than any comparable period in the last 400 years, according to a new report from the US National Research Council.
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Friday, June 23rd 2006 - 21:00 UTC
South Korea eyeing UN Secretary General post
The South Korean government formally requested Chile's support for the candidacy of Foreign Affairs minister Ban Ki-Moon to the post of Secretary General of United Nations, reported diplomatic sources in Santiago.
