MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for March 2006
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Tuesday, March 14th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Argentina glacier breaks apart
Huge chunks of ice have tumbled off Argentina's Perito Moreno glacier - a rare spectacle that prompted a vigil by hundreds of tourists.
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Tuesday, March 14th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Chile passes anti-smoking law
Chilean legislators approved a new anti-smoking law on Tuesday in a major step toward cutting the habit in a country where more than 40 percent of the people smoke.
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Monday, March 13th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Health and Vitality. The Commonwealth Challenge
“A message from Her Majesty The Queen Head of the Commonwealth”
There are few feelings more satisfying than waking to a new day with a sense of wellbeing. Good health is a
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Monday, March 13th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Queen arrives in Australia ahead of Commonwealth Games.
The Queen arrived in Australia on Sunday as organisers and athletes were busily putting the finishing touches to their preparations for the 18th Commonwealth Games.
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Monday, March 13th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Fox's call for action supported by Falklands councillor.
British Shadow Defence Secretary, Liam Fox, has announced that he will be asking Defence Secretary, John Reid, whether the British government proposes any action to prevent the harassment of Falkland Islands fishing vessels by Argentinean naval ships.
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Monday, March 13th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
President Uribe posted for an easy re-election next May
The six coalition parties which support Colombian president Alvaro Uribe managed a comfortable majority in Sundays' congressional elections which forecasts a significant boost for the president's re-election bid next May and his promised fiscal and political reforms in his second four year mandate.
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Monday, March 13th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Antarctica loosing 36 cubic miles of ice annually
University of Colorado at Boulder researchers have used data from a pair of NASA satellites orbiting Earth in tandem to determine that the Antarctic ice sheet, which harbours 90% of Earth's ice, has lost significant mass in recent years.
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Monday, March 13th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
“Good Ilex season” reports Argentine press
Jiggers operating in Argentina's EEZ are currently reporting significant Illex squid catches, with Puerto Deseado in Santa Cruz province, the main unloading port reports Diario de Madryn.
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Monday, March 13th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Brazilian Army outfoxed by favelas' drug dealers
The Brazilian Army withdrew Monday from several Rio de Janeiro favelas, shantytowns, after having failed in recovering sophisticated weapons stolen from the Armed Forces by drug dealers.
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Monday, March 13th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Brazil “exported” a billion US dollars in football players
Between 1994 and 2005 Brazil exported football players to foreign clubs valued in over a billion US dollars reported the Sunday edition of O Estado de Sao Paulo, one of Brazil's main newspapers.
