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Stories for July 2006

• Tuesday, July 11th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  German technology for Falklands' wind farm

  An “exciting scheme” which should reduce the Falkland Islands capital Stanley power station's fuel consumption by at least 20% is progressing well, reports the local Penguin News in its latest edition.

• Tuesday, July 11th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Companies with Falklands' “parallel” interests targeted

  The Argentine Executive is waiting for the legal instruments to sanction those companies “illegally” fishing in the South Atlantic and meantime has begun intelligence gathering focusing on those companies with “parallel” interests, which means Argentina and the Falkland Islands, reports the Buenos Aires press.

• Tuesday, July 11th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  UN warns of “entrenched reliance on fossil fuels”

  United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan called for next week's Group of Eight Summit in Russia to focus on what energy security means for people living in developing countries and also to address the environmental consequences of energy consumption ? especially the current “overwhelming and deeply entrenched reliance on fossil fuels.”

• Tuesday, July 11th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Businessman, next US ambassador to Brazil

  Ambassador Clifford M. Sobel will serve as the next Ambassador of the United States to Brazil starting in July 2006. Mr. Sobel's previous posting was as Ambassador to the Kingdom of the Netherlands, 2001/05.

• Tuesday, July 11th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  June US unemployment 4.6%; Hispanics 5.3%

  The United States Hispanic unemployment rate increased in June, to 5.3 % from 5% in May, according to data released by the U.S. Department of Labour. The overall U.S. unemployment rate remained unchanged at 4.6%, maintaining the five-year low it reached in May.

• Tuesday, July 11th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Massive funds to promote “freedom and transition” in Cuba

  President George Bush approved this week a new 80 million US dollars “Free Cuba” package to boost Cuban opposition and help the Cuban people in “their transition from repressive control to freedom”.

• Tuesday, July 11th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Chile's Aerolineas del Sur to fly to Buenos Aires

  Chile's Aerolíneas del Sur is opening nine new routes including Buenos Aires, despite high oil prices and company in-fighting.

• Tuesday, July 11th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  UK restates no Falklands' sovereignty talks

  British and Argentine sources have confirmed that the Foreign Office has contacted United Nations and the Organization of American States to restate the no Falklands' sovereignty negotiations “unless and until such time as the Islanders so wish”.

• Monday, July 10th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Image costs of “Malvinizing” the “desired Islands”

  The strong “Malvinization” of Argentina's foreign policy will certainly benefit the Kirchner administration domestically, but will also deteriorate the country's image to the eyes of the developed world writes columnist James Nielson in the latest edition of Noticias magazine.

• Monday, July 10th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Lopez Obrador insists with “vote by vote” recount

  Some 100.000 supporters of Mexican presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador who is challenging Sunday July 2 electoral result, convened in Mexico City's main square and promised to keep up the fight against alleged “fraud” to “the very end”.