MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for August 2005
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Friday, August 19th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Penguin News Update.
Headlines:
Students celebrate their A Level results;
Environmental impact of fuel leak ?minimal' say Conservation; Listeria in milk supply; Swimming pool closed; Charter boat heads south. -
Friday, August 19th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Bs. Aires: Pickets wreak traffic havoc
Organized groups of the unemployed disrupted the life of porteños yesterday as they protested at full strength in Buenos Aires and its suburbs to call for an increase in subsidies.
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Thursday, August 18th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
US initiative to contain Chavez involvement
United States Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld in a brief visit to Paraguay praised the local government for its commitment to combat terrorism and “develop free from all foreign influence”.
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Thursday, August 18th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Minorities make up a third of the US population
United States is following on the steps of its most populated states such as California and Texas where the sum of the ethnic and racial minorities is equivalent to half the population according to the latest report from the Census Office.
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Thursday, August 18th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Chileans overseas residents total 857.781
Chile's overseas population totals 857.781 according to the two year census jointly undertaken by the country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Statistics Institute.
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Thursday, August 18th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
EU raised Chile's risk of contracting “mad cow”
The European Union officially informed Chile that it was raising the country's risk of contracting Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, “mad cow”, because Chile imported meat and bone meal from Canada and United States between 1997 and 2000.
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Thursday, August 18th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Growing controversy over the London killing
London Metropolitan Police Chief Sir Ian Blair denied Wednesday Scotland Yard was involved in a cover up operation regarding the July tragic shooting by special agents of Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes who they apparently mistook for a suicide bomber.
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Thursday, August 18th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Rio Group suspends presidential summit
The Rio Group presidential summit scheduled for next August 25/26 in Bariloche, Patagonia, has been suspended but Foreign Affairs ministers will be holding an extraordinary meeting, according to Argentine diplomatic sources.
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Wednesday, August 17th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Argentina tempting money markets with new bond issues
Argentina is feeling international money markets with the objective of issuing a bond in US dollars but submitted to Argentine legislation.
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Wednesday, August 17th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Petrobras oil and gas production 2,3 million bpd
Brazil's government owned Petrobras totalled in July an average daily gas and oil production, from domestic and overseas sources, equivalent to 2.286.323 oil barrels per day, according to the latest report from the company.
