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Montevideo, May 6th 2024 - 09:36 UTC

Stories for April 2003

  • Tuesday, April 15th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

    Breaking News

    HeadlinesOil glut in the horizon

    US consumer confidence recovering

  • Tuesday, April 15th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

    Argentine Elections.

    Headlines:
    Argentine candidates' policies towards the US.
    “Vote not to vote”.

  • Monday, April 14th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

    Argentine electorate keeps everybody guessing

    With less than two weeks for the crucial presidential election of April 27, the Argentine electorate has turned the dispute into one of the tightest and possibly most complicated election in recent history because of the dispersion of votes.

  • Sunday, April 13th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

    Fisheries News.

    Headlines:
    Controversy over hake licences
    Long term access rights boost industry

  • Friday, April 11th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

    IMF forecasts Argentina's recovery

    Argentina is forecasted to grow 3% this year and 4,5% in 2004 according to the International Monetary Fund, IMF mid year World Economic Outlook released this week in Washington.

  • Friday, April 11th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

    Penguin News Update

    Headlines: Inspection critical of camp schooling; Aerolineas flight is 'speculation'; British award for Falklands choir; Give a quid; Prison for young soldier.

  • Thursday, April 10th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

    Falkland Islands Holdings PLC enjoy improved prosperity.

    Once the Falkland Islands Company (FIC) owned almost 50% of all the farmland in the Falklands, and more than half a million sheep; now they own just 22 small uninhabited Islands and 300-400 acres of land in the capital, Stanley.

  • Thursday, April 10th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

    Paraguay elects president April 27

    With just two weeks for the April 27 Paraguayan presidential election, ruling party candidate Nicanor Duarte Frutos leads opinion polls with 34% of vote intention followed by Liberal Party candidate Julio César Franco with 28% and an independent hopeful that musters 24%.

  • Thursday, April 10th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

    Breaking News.

    Headlines:

    Sixty cruise calls this summer in Uruguay.“Positive” tourist season in Ushuaia. Russia “fishing” in Uruguay. OPEC ensures supply and prices. Food scandal in Punta Arenas

  • Thursday, April 10th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

    Falklands Councillors say “NO” to air link with Argentina.

    Plans announced today by Aerolineas Argentinas to commence a twice weekly air link between Buenos Aires and the Falklands have received a firm and precise refusal by the Falkland Islands Government.