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Stories for August 1st 2005

• Monday, August 1st 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Exchange of information between UK and Gibraltar

  Gibraltar in an official release confirmed it complies with the taxation of Savings Directive denying recent statements in the Channel Islands press alleging differences with the United Kingdom on the matter.

• Monday, August 1st 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Morrison to build new Halley BAS Base

  Following the recent announcement that the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) have chosen the winning design for their new research station at Halley, Morrison Ltd have been named as the company selected to build the structure.

• Monday, August 1st 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Breaking News from Pta. Arenas.

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  Cruise “Antarctic Dream”, ready to sail; Surge in Punta Arenas unemployment; Magallanes records major increase in “social” crime.

• Monday, August 1st 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Venezuelan president needs to be “exorcised”

  Venezuelan Cardinal Rosalio Castillo said in an interview published Sunday in the Colombian press that his country's president, Hugo Chavez, was “a paranoid despot” who, instead of a blessing needed an “exorcism”.

• Monday, August 1st 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Growing US public opinion against war in Iraq

  According to public opinion pollster Gallup, 32% of North Americans believe the war in Iraq is lost, while 21% feel President Bush could eventually win it, but don't see him determined.

• Monday, August 1st 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  State of Sao Paulo, a country on its own

  The state of Sao Paulo in Brazil reached the 40 million inhabitants mark this weekend which makes it more populated than at least 178 countries, according to the Regional Data Analysis System.

• Monday, August 1st 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Chile's ruling coalition proclaims presidential candidate

  Chile's Christian Democratic Party (DC) proclaimed Saturday Socialist Michelle Bachelet as the only candidate of the ruling coalition (Concertacion for Democracy) for December's presidential election.

• Monday, August 1st 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  HMS Invincible sails out of service

  The country's oldest aircraft carrier which saw action during the Falkland Islands war in 1982, bowed out of active service on Monday as it steamed into its home port of Portsmouth in southern England for the last time.

• Monday, August 1st 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Latinamerica wins first round of “banana war”

  The World Trade Organization (WTO) ruled Monday in favour of nine Latin American countries that had challenged an increase in the European Union's tariff on bananas scheduled to take effect next year.