MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for 2005
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Monday, June 13th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Fisheries: Breaking News
Headlines:
Australia leads campaign to prevent whaling increase; Jumbo flying squid invasion threatens hake; South Pacific fisheries organization in the making ; Argentina begins hake juvenile survey; Shrimp survey in South Atlantic yields negative results; -
Monday, June 13th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Falkland Islands Holdings plc
Falkland Islands Holdings (“FIH”), an AIM listed company operating a range of businesses in the Falkland Islands, and the Portsmouth Harbour Ferry Company in the UK, announces preliminary results for the year ended 31 March 2005.
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Monday, June 13th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Anniversary of liberation
To mark the anniversary of the liberation of the Falkland Islands from Argentine occupation in 1982, Tuesday, June 14 will be a public holiday.
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Monday, June 13th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
New heart operations in Punta Arenas
Next July a special team of Santiago cardio surgeons will be arriving in Punta Arenas to perform heart operations in the local hospital.
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Monday, June 13th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
EU will review Cuba's human rights record in 2006
As was expected European Union Foreign Affairs ministers decided Monday in Luxembourg not to re-establish diplomatic sanctions on Cuba, which were suspended earlier this year, despite a record of lack of “satisfactory progress” in human rights.
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Monday, June 13th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Kirchner-Duhalde: agreement or confrontation?
Peronist party leaders in the Buenos Aires province said that an agreement over candidacies for the October midterm election between President Néstor Kirchner and former interim president Eduardo Duhalde ought to be clinched “within the next eight to ten days”.
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Monday, June 13th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Benedict XVI could visit Argentina/Chile in 2007
Pope Benedict XVI is likely to visit Argentina or Chile in 2007 when the Fifth General Conference of the Latinamerican Synod, said Vatican sources.
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Monday, June 13th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Refurbished Mirage 2000-C for Brazil
Brazil is currently negotiating the purchase of twelve refurbished combat aircraft from France to replace the old Mirages that have been on service for over thirty years.
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Monday, June 13th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Argentina/Chile joint seat for 2014 World Football Cup
If Chile and Argentina request the joint seat for the Football World Cup in 2014, they can “perfectly be the organizers”, said FIFA president Joseph Blatter who added that South America has been chosen as host of the 2014 Cup.
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Monday, June 13th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Hispanics consolidate as first minority in US
The Latino population consolidated as the main minority in United States with 41,3 million people mainly because of a growth rate that is three times higher than the overall population, according to a report from the US Census Office.
