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Politics
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Monday, June 25th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
World Bank Executive Directors confirm Zoellick president
The World Bank executive directors met on Monday and approved Robert Zoellick to succeed Paul Wolfowitz as the next president of the 185-country development multilateral organization.
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Sunday, June 24th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Brown finally crowned Labour leader
Gordon Brown is finally to be crowned Labour leader - taking over from Tony Blair after a 13-year wait.
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Sunday, June 24th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Brazil “undisturbed” with Chavez' absence from Mercosur summit
Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez' likely failure to attend the upcoming Mercosur presidential summit in Paraguay is not a politically transcendental issue, but a simple problem of agenda, said Marco Aurelio García, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's foreign affairs aide.
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Sunday, June 24th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Lula da Silva rejects appeal from Blair to “save” Doha round
British Prime Minister Tony Blair told President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in a telephone call that he is counting on Brazil's help to "save" the Doha round of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) talks.
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Sunday, June 24th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Double setback for President Kirchner electoral machine
Double setback for Argentine president Nestor Kirchner: in Buenos Aires City his hand picked mayor candidate was defeated by a landslide in the run off and in the extreme south province of Tierra del Fuego a woman belonging to the most fierce opposition group in Congress was elected governor.
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Saturday, June 23rd 2007 - 21:00 UTC
EU leaders reach agreement on new treaty
Leaders of the European Union say they have reached an agreement on crafting a new EU treaty.
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Saturday, June 23rd 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Buenos Aires set for mayoral poll
Buenos Aires goes to the polls Sunday to elect its mayor in a runoff election, which the Argentine right- wing appears set to win and which could take wind out of the sails of the government ahead of the October 28 presidential election.
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Saturday, June 23rd 2007 - 21:00 UTC
CIA to release 1970s documents on agency's crimes
The US Central Intelligence Agency is preparing to release a set of documents compiled more than 30 years ago detailing the agency's involvement over the previous quarter century in crimes both at home and abroad.
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Friday, June 22nd 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Falkland Islands: Weekly Penguin News Update
Headlines:
Prince "bowled over" by Islands; Birthday honour for former AG; Islanders at C24; More Liberation PNs on the way; Coming up next week in Penguin News. -
Thursday, June 21st 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Falklands proposes Argentina relation based on “tolerance and respect”
Falkland Islands elected Councillor Dr. Richard Davies addressing on Thursday the United Nations Decolonization Committee in New York invited Argentina “to build a better relationship between our countries, based on tolerance and respect, so that the sacrifice of all those who suffered and died in 1982 will not have been in vain”.
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