MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for 2005
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Monday, July 25th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Ushuaia certified as safe by IMO
The Ushuaia port terminal in Tierra del Fuego which concentrates a majority of world maritime traffic with Antarctica has been officially certified as a safe port by the International Maritime Organization.
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Monday, July 25th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Agreement on the Conservation of Albatross signed at Australia
Australia's championing of albatross protection from long-line fishing started a process that last week led to Hobart becoming the world for protecting these giant seabirds.
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Monday, July 25th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Chilean wine and beef sales steam ahead
Chilean wine and beef exports keep steaming full ahead with annual sales forecasted to grow 6 to 9% and beef shipments in the first five months jumping 350%.
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Monday, July 25th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
It's official, April 5 Argentina-Chile Friendship Day
Argentina and Chile's Foreign Affairs ministers Rafael Bielsa and Ignacio Walker officially confirmed April 5 as the “Argentine-Chilean Friendship Day” which has been added to both countries calendars.
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Sunday, July 24th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Telesur Goes on the Air Under Fire from U.S.
Today will be the first day of broadcasting for a new Latin America-wide TV network aimed at competing with U.S. and European international news stations.
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Saturday, July 23rd 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Rio Group: fighting poverty is chief challenge in Latin America
Eight foreign ministers and 11 undersecretaries from the Rio Group of Latin American nations took part in the two days of talks in Pilar, 70 kilometres northwest of Buenos Aires.
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Saturday, July 23rd 2005 - 21:00 UTC
London Police defends policy of shooting suspected bombers
London's top police official said he regrets the death of a Brazilian national shot and killed by armed officers in a subway station but defended the policy of shooting to kill suspected suicide bombers.
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Saturday, July 23rd 2005 - 21:00 UTC
HMS Leeds Castle lends a Hand.
The offshore patrol vessel HMS Leeds Castle has provided valuable assistance to firefighters during her final visit to the county of Kent.
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Friday, July 22nd 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Santa Cruz police remove picketers from oilfields
Police in the southern Patagonian province of Santa Cruz arrested Thursday more than 50 people in the course of ending a takeover of a Repsol YPF oilfield. But radicals and relatives from the detainees claimed many protesters were beaten.
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Friday, July 22nd 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Washington will not tolerate return of Sandinistas
The President George Bush administration will do everything legally possible to prevent the leftist Sandinistas from returning to power in Central America's Nicaragua, said Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Roger Noriega.
