MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for 2005
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Friday, April 15th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Cuba on the verge of cutting ties with EU
Cuba warned Thursday in Geneva that the budding rapprochement with the Europe Union “is on the verge of sinking” and asked the Europeans to join Havana in urging a United Nations forum to investigate the situation of detainees at the U.S. Navy base in Guantanamo.
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Friday, April 15th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
US warns about “cloned” US dollar bills in S. America
Special agents from the United States Secret Service arrived this week in Santiago to instruct Chilean banking and police authorities on US dollar bills security seals and other safeguards following a warning from the Federal Reserve about fake 50 and 100 US dollar bills circulating in South America.
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Friday, April 15th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
More pressure on Argentina to include all bond holders
The world's major financial references called on the Argentine government to reach an agreement with those bond holders who did not adhere to last February's restructuring and swap plan accepted by 76% of creditors.
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Friday, April 15th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Lan Chile closes deal with Argentine partners
Lan Chile and its Argentine associates announced Thursday they closed the deal to purchase Aero 2000 after a whole month of negotiations.
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Friday, April 15th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Mercosur-EU “4+4” summit in the agenda
Argentine president Nestor Kirchner and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder considered the possibility of calling a 4 + 4 summit (Germany, Spain, France and United Kingdom, plus Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Chile) to re-launch the stalled European Union-Mercosur trade negotiations.
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Friday, April 15th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Penguin News Update.
Headlines:
Desire aspires to summer drilling; Face-lift for historic Store;
Briefly: Reaction to illex closure; A royal wedding gift; HM's birthday holiday; Astor is final cruiser; Summer time Ends; Apology. -
Friday, April 15th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Squid season north of 44º S begins April 21
The Argentine Federal Fisheries Council (CFP) has requested the Under secretariat of Fisheries and Aquaculture (SSP&A) to authorise squid (Illex argentinus) fishing north of parallel 44º S as of next April 20, 24:00 hours. The request is based on the fact that “conditions that prompted the early opening of the 2004 season north of 44º S remain unchanged”.
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Thursday, April 14th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Presidential “backtracking”.
President Néstor Kirchner yesterday justified his decision to suspend a decree requiring telecommunication companies to monitor customers' calls and Web-surfing habits, saying that “he did not know when he signed it that it implied violation of privacy rights” protected by Argentina's Constitution.
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Thursday, April 14th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Killer flu frenzy
Countries around the world were destroying vials of a pandemic flu strain yesterday which were sent to thousands of labs as part of a routine test kit, risking a global flu epidemic.
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Thursday, April 14th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Low-cost Windows reaches Brazil
Microsoft Corp. launched a scaled-back version of its Windows operating system in Brazil yesterday, hoping to get more people using computers in Latin America's largest country while cutting down on rampant software piracy.
