MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for 2005
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Friday, July 8th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Spanish becomes second language in Brazil
Brazilian Congress gave final approval Thursday to a bill that makes Spanish a second language in the country's public and private primary schools. The bill awaits now President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's signature.
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Friday, July 8th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
IDB presidency, a repeat of the OAS dispute?
The coming departure of long-serving president Enrique Iglesias is sparking an unprecedented fight over leadership of the Inter-American Development Bank with the United States backing a Colombian diplomat and the region's left-leaning governments supporting the IDB's current Brazilian vice president.
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Friday, July 8th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Penguin News Update.
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Friday, July 8th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Blair vows to secure G8 agreements
Tony Blair will seek to tie up agreements on Africa and climate change after returning to the G8 summit.
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Friday, July 8th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
World condemns savage attacks in UK
World leaders condemned the deadly attacks on London's transport system yesterday as ??barbaric,'' ??odious'' and ??despicable'' in a globe-spanning pledge of solidarity ? and vowed to cooperate to track down the terrorists.
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Thursday, July 7th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
A Scottish relief for Brazilian president Lula
Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva left Wednesday for Scotland where together with the leaders of China, India, South Africa and Mexico, he will be a special guest of the G-8 summit.
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Thursday, July 7th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Chavez calls on the US to “bury FTAA” proposal
Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez called on United States to definitively bury the frustrated attempts to create a Free Trade Association of the Americans, FTAA since the project has failed.
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Thursday, July 7th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Chilean inflation reaches 1,8% in six months
The Chilean consumer prices index increased 0,4% in June totalling 1,8% in 2005 and 2,7% in the last twelve months, according to the latest release from the Statistics Institute.
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Thursday, July 7th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Ecuador the riskiest Latinamerican country
Ecuador became this week the riskiest country in Latinamerica according to JP Morgan Emerging Markets Bond Index, EMBI, with a 799 basic points rating.
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Thursday, July 7th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
UK lifts ban on sale of spares to Argentine Navy
United Kingdom lifted the ban on the sale of Rolls Royce spares to the Argentine Navy vessels, according to reports in the Buenos Aires newspaper, Ambito Financiero
