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Stories for 2003

• Saturday, February 22nd 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  Eichmann Kidnapper Dies
  Recall of Argentina Nazi abduction.

  The Israeli Intelligence chief who master-minded the abduction of the Nazi killer Adolf Eichmann in Argentina in 1960 for trial and execution in Israel has died in Israel, aged 91. Isser Harel was the head of Israel's foreign intelligence agency, Mossad, and also the first director of its domestic security agency, Shin Bet.

• Friday, February 21st 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  Record US trade deficit

  The United Status trade deficit reached a record 435,2 billion US dollars in 2002, a 21,5% increase over the 358 billion of 2001, according to an official release from the Department of Commerce.

• Friday, February 21st 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentina licences for 106 jiggers

  Despite objections, Argentine authorities are allowing 15 bare boat jigger charters to participate in this year's squid harvest in Argentine waters. The Federal Fisheries Council (CFP) decided that a fleet of 57 registered jiggers, plus the 19 jiggers that were added for the current season and a bare boat chartered jigger fleet of up to 30 vessels was compatible with a sustainable fishery.

• Friday, February 21st 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  Penguin News Update

  Headlines: Students conquer Tumbledown; 'Albatross death' ship fined; FLH sheep shortage; Flight trends viewed.

• Thursday, February 20th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  Unique Uruguay Football Medal for sale.

  Memories of football's first ever World Cup final in Uruguay more than 70 years ago have been revived by the proposed sale of the Uruguay Captain's gold medal.

• Thursday, February 20th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  British Member of Parliament urges “Dialogue with Argentina”.

  A Conservative Member of the British Parliament has urged the Falkland Islands Government to enter into a dialogue with the Argentine Government on, 'matters of mutual interest'.

• Thursday, February 20th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  Hot News from Argentina & Brazil.

  Headlines: Argentina rejects war on Iraq; Brazil hikes interest rate; Pro Mercosur Ambassador.

• Thursday, February 20th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  Fisheries News.

  Headlines: Chubut vessel owners warned: no records, no permit; Argentina's tariffs hit Ecuadorian tuna; Fisheries development top priority for Brazil; Scientists cracking white shrimp genetic code; Shellfish sector considers industrial seed production; WWF warns fish farming eating into wild fish stocks.

• Wednesday, February 19th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  Kofi Annan appeals to G 24.

  Kofi Annan, UN Secretary General has called on the administering Powers of listed colonies and the UN Committee of 24 to work together in the search for “innovative and practical ways to reinvigorate the decolonisation process and enable us to close this unfinished chapter in history.”

• Wednesday, February 19th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  Tough FTAA negotiation round.

  United States multilateral and bilateral approach to tariff reductions and its insistence in protecting US farm subsidies in the framework of the current Free Trade Association of the Americas talks in Panama have stalled agriculture negotiations.