MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for August 2005
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
