MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for June 2005
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Friday, June 24th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Eleven charred in longliner “Seimez” tragedy
Uruguayan officials confirmed Thursday they had found the charred remains of eleven crewmembers from a Ukrainian longliner that caught fire in the port of Montevideo.
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Friday, June 24th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Penguin News Update
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Flight safety award for agent; July 10 remembrance; ?Waxy' fuel no longer; Forbes case appeals. -
Thursday, June 23rd 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Another blow for Brazilian president Lula da Silva
A Brazilian court suspended the civil rights of Sao Paulo's former mayor Marta Suplicy, for a three-year period because of improper management of public funds while she was in office, reported the Brazilian press Wednesday.
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Thursday, June 23rd 2005 - 21:00 UTC
MBE for Captain Chris Elliott
The British Antarctic Survey has reported that a man well known to the Falklands was awarded an MBE in this year's Queen's Birthday Honours list.
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Thursday, June 23rd 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Upgrade funds for Islanders who house tourists
Falkland Islanders who house tourists will be offered the chance of a grant to help them upgrade their property, reports the Falklands Broadcasting station.
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Thursday, June 23rd 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Truck industry complains Andes crossing “bottleneck”
As an estimated 8,000 trucks which had been bogged by snow for over a week on both sides of the Argentine/Chilean border Andes crossing, Paso Internacional de los Libertadores, began moving, the Chilean transport industry is bitterly complaining about the country's economy “bottle neck”.
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Thursday, June 23rd 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Chilean Congress to investigate Lagos relatives and friends
Chilean president Ricardo Lagos praised the creation of a Congressional committee to investigate alleged irregularities in government contracts awards involving a consulting company belonging to his brother in law and one of his closest friends.
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Thursday, June 23rd 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Gibraltar Hot News
Headlines:
Tripartite talks next July: Gibraltar/Spain/UK
Middle Ages entrance to Gibraltar found. -
Thursday, June 23rd 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Controversial Cavallo is back and with political ambitions
Former Argentine Economy minister Domingo Cavallo will be deciding in the next few days if he will run for a seat in the Lower House in the coming October elections, but what is definitive is his return to Argentina.
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Wednesday, June 22nd 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Peruvian region expands legal cultivation of coca
The southern Peruvian region of Cuzco, whose like named hub was the imperial capital of the Inca, defied the central government Tuesday by enacting an ordinance expanding the legal cultivation of coca, the raw material of cocaine.
