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Stories for 2005

  • Saturday, July 30th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

    Steven Seagal and “Submerged” irritate Uruguay

    Uruguay is seriously considering legal actions against the producers of a Hollywood film “Submerged” with Steven Seagal which ridicules the South American country as a banana republic where a terrorist captured US nuclear submarine is taken.

  • Friday, July 29th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

    Global common hake campaign begins

    Scientists and technicians of the National Institute for Fisheries Research and Development are to begin a study on common hake to determine the resource total biomass between parallels 34º 30' S and 48º S, and evaluate its abundance and distribution by age and size.

  • Friday, July 29th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

    Chilean fisheries plants inspected by EU experts

    Eco-oceans an environmental non government organization claims a European Union health and consumer inspection team which recently visited Chile, banned exports from four fish processing plants located in Puerto Montt.

  • Friday, July 29th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

    “Possible” third case of mad cow in US

    United States Agriculture Department is looking into a “possible” new case of mad cow in the country.

  • Friday, July 29th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

    Venezuela is not the “centre of the universe”

    Washington does not view Venezuela as “the centre of the universe” said a top U.S. diplomat Wednesday when asked whether Washington fears a new “anti-imperialist” television network based in Caracas will expand the influence of leftist Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.

  • Friday, July 29th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

    Ambassador Hughes confirms EU-Mercosur trade talks

    British Ambassador in Argentina John Hughes confirmed the resumption of bilateral talks next September between Mercosur and the European Union with the purpose of reaching a free trade agreement.

  • Friday, July 29th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

    Repsol-YPF: high profits, low reserves

    Spanish oil company Repsol-YPF revealed Thursday earnings of 1,65 billion Euros in the first half of 2005. Profits were in line with market expectations reported the company.

  • Friday, July 29th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

    CAFTA approval rekindles free trade talks

    US Congressional approval of the free-trade treaty between United States and Central America is likely to help pave the way for similar regional accords and contribute to the success of WTO negotiations.

  • Friday, July 29th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

    Penguin News Update.

    Headlines:
    New Governor named; Falklands War computer game launched; Second Loligo season better than last year's; Investigation continues.

  • Friday, July 29th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

    Menezes burial Friday in his hometown

    Jean Charles de Menezes, the Brazilian national gunned down by the London police in a subway when they mistook him for a terrorist had an expired two years before visa, said the British Home Office.