MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for 2005
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Thursday, June 23rd 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Gibraltar Hot News
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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.
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Wednesday, June 22nd 2005 - 21:00 UTC
The whales Won!
The International Whaling Commission resoundingly rejected a proposal yesterday to end its almost two-decade-old ban on commercial whaling, dealing a blow to Japan and other pro-whaling nations that say stocks of some species have recovered enough to allow limited hunts.
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Wednesday, June 22nd 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Competition puts squeeze on world prices
Global farm commodity prices will fall in real terms over the next decade under pressure from growing competition and productivity gains, the OECD said yesterday.
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Wednesday, June 22nd 2005 - 21:00 UTC
World's navies celebrate Trafalgar, honour Nelson
More than 100 warships from 35 nations will crowd the Solent, Portmouth, next Tuesday in a spectacular display of naval power marking the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar. The Fleet Review, attended by the Queen, will be the first since the Silver Jubilee of 1977.
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Wednesday, June 22nd 2005 - 21:00 UTC
International maritime exercise concludes in Scotland
Scotland said goodbye this weekend to the thousands of military personnel from the 14 nations, 49 ships and submarines and 72 aircraft which took part in the major UK led maritime training course, Neptune Warrior 052, formerly the Joint Maritime Course, which is held three times a year around the coast of Scotland.
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Wednesday, June 22nd 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Foreign confidence in Brazilian economy
Brazilian holdings overseas increased 14,6% in 2004 totalling 94,7 billion US dollars according to the latest report from the Brazilian Central Bank which attributes the expansion to the greater internationalization of the country's economy.
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Wednesday, June 22nd 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Football 2014 World Cup will be played in Brazil
The president of the Chilean Football Association Reinaldo Sánchez almost but confirmed Brazil as the country that will be hosting in South American the 2014 World Football Cup, discarding a joint Argentina/Chile organization.
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Wednesday, June 22nd 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Nicaragua, the next “hot spot” for OAS
The Organization of American States, OAS, Secretary General, Jose Miguel Insulza warned this week that a “serious political crisis” is brewing in Nicaragua, Central America, and called on member countries to continue working in helping solve the challenging situation.
