MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for February 2006
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Saturday, February 18th 2006 - 20:00 UTC
Bird flu 'likely to reach Britain'
The Government has confirmed that bird flu was “likely” to reach UK shores following confirmation that a duck in France died of the disease.
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Saturday, February 18th 2006 - 20:00 UTC
Chavez Warns U.S. on Oil Export
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez warned on Friday he could cut off oil exports to the United States if Washington goes “over the line” in what he has said are attempts to destabilize his left-leaning government.
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Saturday, February 18th 2006 - 20:00 UTC
Falkland basins seismic to be completed in March
Falkland Oil and Gas Ltd. (FOGL), the oil and gas exploration company operating in the undrilled South and East Falkland basins, says a 15,000-km 2D seismic survey is nearing completion with just 3,500 km left to record.
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Saturday, February 18th 2006 - 20:00 UTC
New support arrangement for UK's Chinook choppers
A new contract that will transform the way in which logistics support is provided to the Armed Forces' largest helicopter has been awarded to the Boeing Company by the British Ministry of Defence.
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Friday, February 17th 2006 - 20:00 UTC
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Friday, February 17th 2006 - 20:00 UTC
Luxury ocean liner secrets revealed
A museum, a 6,000-book library and a conservatory will feature on Cunard's new 90,000-tonne liner Queen Victoria, it has been revealed.
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Friday, February 17th 2006 - 20:00 UTC
Venezuela puts pressure on Opec to cut its output
The next meeting of oil ministers from the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries may be more than two weeks away but Venezuela has fired the first salvo. It has stated that the oil cartel should cut its output by up to 1m barrels a day.
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Friday, February 17th 2006 - 20:00 UTC
Greenland ice-loss doubles in past decade
The loss of ice from Greenland doubled between 1996 and 2005, as its glaciers flowed faster into the ocean in response to a generally warmer climate, according to a NASA/University of Kansas study in the journal Science.
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Friday, February 17th 2006 - 20:00 UTC
Malvinas veterans win compensations claim
An Argentine court ruled that a group of Malvinas war veterans, all belonging to the conscripts class 1962 have the right to collect retroactively from April 2, 1982, pensions and compensations which had since been denied, reported the Buenos Aires press.
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Thursday, February 16th 2006 - 20:00 UTC
Mercosur/EU anticipate results in Vienna summit
Mercosur and European Union representatives meeting in Buenos Aires Wednesday agreed to relaunch bilateral negotiations for a cooperation and free trade treaty which has been bogged for months.
