Stories for October 2004 , page 15

Friday, October 8th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

Falklands fact-finding visit by British Ambassador-designate.

BRITISH Ambassador-designate to Buenos Aires, Mr. John Hughes was in the Falklands on a fact-finding tour this week accompanied by Mr. Tony Crombie,Head of the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office's Overseas Territories
Department.

Friday, October 8th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

Penguin News Update.

Headlines:
Exciting opportunities ahead; Ambassador-designate visits Islands;
News in brief:
Fishing update; Cover comb shearing.

Friday, October 8th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

Pinochet's son charged.

Former dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet's older son was formally charged yesterday with fraud in an investigation linked to the illegal sale of vehicles, and prosecutors said they will seek a three-year prison sentence.

Friday, October 8th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

Poll: Kerry leads Bush.

US Sen. John Kerry has taken a slim lead over President George W. Bush, according to an Associated Press poll that shows the president's support tumbling on personal qualities, the war in Iraq and the commander in chief's bedrock campaign issue ? US security.

Friday, October 8th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

Argentina wins latest round in effort to restructure debt.

Argentina won an important battle on Thursday in its attempts to restructure about $100bn (?81bn, £56bn) in defaulted debt after the country's private pension funds agreed to accept the government's forthcoming offer.

Friday, October 8th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

Kenyan Environmentalist Wins Peace Prize.

Kenyan environmental activist Wangari Maathai won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for her work as leader of the Green Belt Movement, which has sought to empower women, improve the environment and fight corruption in Africa for almost 30 years.

Thursday, October 7th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

“Historic” agreement for reforming Chilean constitution.

Fourteen years after recovering democracy Chile managed a political agreement that will open the way to reforming some of the harshest and most controversial aspects of the 1980 Constitution inherited from the military regime of General Pinochet.

Thursday, October 7th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

Military pockets and secrets to be exposed.

A group of Chilean Deputies from different political parties have requested President Ricardo Lagos to sponsor a bill repealing the highly secretive Reserved Copper Bill which deals with military financing and procurement.

Thursday, October 7th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

Ancram promises to end “Straw's betrayal of Gibraltar”

At the British Conservative Party conference in Bournemouth this Wednesday Jonathan Evans the leader of the Conservative members of the European Parliament thanked Bernard Hazell from the Gibraltar branch for the outstanding election result there in June, where the party achieved a massive 70% of votes cast.

Wednesday, October 6th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

Soybeans flatten, and cattle is back in Argentina.

The considerable profit margin of planting soybeans over growing livestock in Argentina has begun to dramatically revert, according to a report from the Meats Trade and Industry Chamber of Argentina, Ciccra.