MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for January 19th 2013
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Saturday, January 19th 2013 - 04:30 UTC
Tourists arriving in Uruguay dropped 14% in first weeks compared to 2012
The number of tourists arriving to Uruguay in the first weeks of this summer season has dropped 14% compared to the same period a year ago, which represents 20.600 less, mostly Argentines and Brazilians, according to Benjamin Liberoff, Director of Tourism.
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Saturday, January 19th 2013 - 03:29 UTC
Santos could seek popular approval for any peace and political accord with FARC
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos opened the door to a popular vote on any peace accord negotiated and signed with FARC rebels, but rejected a guerrilla demand to change the constitution if a deal is clinched.
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Saturday, January 19th 2013 - 03:16 UTC
Canada’s new plastic banknotes with the wrong maple leaf
The Bank of Canada has barked up the wrong maple tree with its new plastic banknotes, using a foreign Norway maple leaf as the emblem on the notes instead of the sugar maple that the country has on its national flag, an eagle-eyed Canadian botanist says.
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Saturday, January 19th 2013 - 03:00 UTC
Argentine car washers blame poor weather forecasting for bad business
A summer brawl has surfaced in Buenos Aires between the car washers’ industry and the Argentine Meteorological service that are blamed for their poor forecasts which scares customers from the outlets.
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Saturday, January 19th 2013 - 00:29 UTC
Anywhere from 30 to 50% of world food production lost to waste, says engineers’ group
The report “Global Food: Waste Not Want Not” by the UK’s Institute of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) has found that 30-50%, or 1.2-2 billion tons, of produced food is wasted by poor storage, bad distribution and exacting quality standards in the developed world.
