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Stories for May 15th 2009

  • Friday, May 15th 2009 - 12:25 UTC

    Calculating the impact of the Antarctic ice sheet melting

    The collapse of a major Antarctic ice sheet will not raise global sea levels as much as previous projections suggest, a team of scientists has calculated. Writing in Science, the researchers said that the demise of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) would result in a sea level rise of 3.3m.
    Previous estimates had forecast a rise in the region of five to six metres.

  • Friday, May 15th 2009 - 12:09 UTC

    Uruguay’s president calls for “deeds” and an end to Argentine pickets

    Vazquez has learnt it’s not easy living next to Argentina

    Uruguayan president Tabare Vazquez called for “deeds” from Argentina and insisted that the administration of Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner must remove the pickets which for two years have cut the traffic between the neighbouring countries in protest over the construction of a pulp mill.

  • Friday, May 15th 2009 - 12:00 UTC

    Falkland Islands: Weekly Penguin News Update

    Rob McGill with the sei whale on Carcass Island.

    Sei whale washes up on Carcass. -

    ONE animal’s misfortune has become the gain of hundreds of others on Carcass Island.The body of an enormous sei whale was found dead with hundreds of giant petrels around it, when the island’s owner Rob McGill discovered it on Sunday.

  • Friday, May 15th 2009 - 11:49 UTC

    Cristina plans to celebrate May 25th with Lula da Silva and Lugo

    Pte. CFK: Building bridges with neighbours

    Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner will celebrate the May Revolution National Day in a city bordering Brazil and Paraguay where she expects to hold a presidential meeting with her peer-neighbours, according to the Buenos Aires press.

  • Friday, May 15th 2009 - 11:31 UTC

    Record contraction of the Spanish economy

    The Spanish economy slid deeper into recession in the first quarter of this year, official data showed on Thursday revealing that output shrank by 1.8% from the level in the previous quarter. On an annualized basis the contraction was a record 2.9%, the steepest in half a century.

  • Friday, May 15th 2009 - 11:29 UTC

    Argentina lifts ban on direct flights from Mexico

    The Argentine government announced on Thursday it would lift a ban on direct flights from Mexico imposed over two weeks ago due to an outbreak of the new H1N1 flu in that country.

  • Friday, May 15th 2009 - 11:25 UTC

    Bolivia says relations with Peru are at “high risk”

    Pte. Evo Morales & Pte. Alan Garcia

    Bolivia's president said relations with Peru are at “high risk” after the neighbouring nation gave refuge to two more former Bolivian officials accused in the 2003 army killings of dozens of protesters.

  • Friday, May 15th 2009 - 11:21 UTC

    Colombia’s Uribe closer to the second “re-election of his ideas”

    President Alvaro Uribe

    Colombia's senate has delayed a vote on scheduling a referendum that could let President Alvaro Uribe seek a third term. Lawmakers had been expected to vote Wednesday but the body put off consideration of the measure until May 19 for lack of quorum.

  • Friday, May 15th 2009 - 11:12 UTC

    Booing incident gets the sack for Spain’s state television sports editor

    The King's wave to the fans

    Spain's state television sacked its head of sports coverage on Thursday, saying it was a mistake not to have shown a soccer crowd from Catalonia and the Basque Country booing the Spanish national anthem during the country's Copa del Rey final.

  • Friday, May 15th 2009 - 09:29 UTC

    Argentina tightens conservation for polaca, hoki and Patagonian toothfish

    Argentina is tightening fisheries conservation in the South Atlantic. The Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock, Fishery, and Food (SAGP&A) announced it will establish catch limits, intended to last 15 years, for polaca (Micromesistius australis), hoki (Macruronus magellanicus) and Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides).

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