MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for May 2005
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Tuesday, May 10th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
OPEC pumping over 30 million bpd
OPEC, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries announced Tuesday in Kuwait that during May country members belonging to the cartel are increasing daily oil production to 30,3 million bpd. This represents a daily increase of 600,000 barrels, said OPEC's president Ahmed Fahd Al-Sabah.
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Tuesday, May 10th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
WB: Governance in Latinamerica has not improved
Governance and Justice administration have not improved in Latin America in the last eight years, considerably reducing countries economic potential argues a report released this week by Daniel Kaufmann, World Bank Director of Global Governance.
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Tuesday, May 10th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Promises of energy integration
Presidents from Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela made a commitment to push forward with South American energy integration according to officials in Brasilia.
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Tuesday, May 10th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Mount Pleasant Airport twentieth anniversary.
This week twenty years ago saw the opening of Mount Pleasant Airport with its 2,950 metres runway in the Falkland Islands.
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Monday, May 9th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
South America, Arab leaders summit.
Minister from 33 South American and Middle Eastern on Sunday began preparing the groundwork for the first-event summit of leaders from two regions.
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Monday, May 9th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Europe marks 60 years since WWII
Prince Charles wore naval uniform as he laid a wreath before London's monument to the dead of both World Wars, while U.S. President George W. Bush paid tribute to American lives lost in the 1939-45 conflict at a cemetery in the Netherlands.
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Monday, May 9th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Argentina upbeat over IMF meeting
Top Argentine officials will travel to Washington on Monday night to begin face-to-face talks with the International Monetary Fund over a new programme.
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Monday, May 9th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Chavez warns oil companies: “pay your taxes or leave”
Oil corporations operating in Venezuela must pay to the government tax arrears, “retroactive plus interest”, or “abandon the country” warned Monday president Hugo Chavez during his Sunday national radio and television show, “Aló president”.
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Monday, May 9th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Mexico City's mayor begins presidential race July 31
Mexico City's mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador the most popular politician in the country announced Monday that he would step down this summer to begin his bid for the presidency of Mexico. Resignation would be effective July 31.
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Monday, May 9th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Falklands prepares for pilot wind farm
The Falkland Islands Power and Electrical Section of the Public Works Department have applied for planning permission for a 900 kWe wind farm at Sand Bay.
