MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for 2004
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Saturday, October 9th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
“Kirchner will not shake hands” with Walker
Argentine Foreign Relations Minister Rafael Bielsa stated in an interview that “it won't be possible to work” with his recently named Chilean counterpart Ignacio Walker, following a controversial article where he candidly describes the Peronist party and President Nestor Kirchner in not too kind words.
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Saturday, October 9th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
Roaring oil prices close above 53 US dollars
Oil prices reached a new record high this Friday in New York with a closing price of 53,31 US dollars the barrel for light Texas crude, the highest ever since 1983. In London, Brent crude closed at 49,71 US dollars, also a record.
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Saturday, October 9th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
Bid for EU funded aquaculture training
Following an initiative by Falklands' Councillor Summers during a meeting in Brussels last December, a proposal has been worked on with the French Overseas Territories of St Pierre & Miquelon and with representatives of Greenland (Denmark) for a training course on aquaculture to be funded by the European Commission Development Fund.
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Saturday, October 9th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
UK Party conferences finish
For the 17th year the Falklands Islands Government had stands at both the Labour and Conservative Party Conferences that were held over the past two weeks in the United Kingdom.
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Saturday, October 9th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
BAS summer season poised to begin
British Antarctic Survey Twin Otters and the Dash-7 should be arriving in the Falkland Islands next week.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
