MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for April 21st 2006
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Friday, April 21st 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Pulp mills conflict: Finish minister cancels Argentine visit
The Argentine/Uruguayan conflict over the building of pulp mills in Uruguay has had a further impact, this time in Finland which announced the cancelling of one of its ministers' visit to Buenos Aires.
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Friday, April 21st 2006 - 21:00 UTC
US consumer inflation in March rose 0.4%
Rising energy and clothing costs pushed March's United States consumer prices index 0.4%.
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Friday, April 21st 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Brazil must resist “fiscal easing” pressures
Brazil will have to resist pressures for fiscal easing to sustain high primary surpluses and to raise medium term growth through reform efforts including improving the quality of fiscal policy and the business climate, according to IMF's World Economic Outlook released this week.
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Friday, April 21st 2006 - 21:00 UTC
New FAM outbreak in south Brazil
Brazilian authorities confirmed Thursday a new outbreak of the highly contagious foot and mouth disease in the state of Matto Grosso do Sul, close to the Paraguayan border.
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Friday, April 21st 2006 - 21:00 UTC
IMF suggests reforms in Argentina's utility sector
Argentina needs to introduce reforms in the utility sector including the liberalisation of prices and raise investment in infrastructure to avoid the emergence of supply bottlenecks suggested the IMF in its annual World Economic Outlook.
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Friday, April 21st 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Chilean tourism in first quarter up 12.5%
The number of foreign tourists visiting Chile during the first quarter of this year jumped 12.5% over the same period a year ago revealed the country's Nacional Tourism Office, Sernatur.
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Friday, April 21st 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Supplement of Iodized salt could lower number of victims
Ahead of the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear accident, the United Nations Children's Fund said that iodized salt could have significantly lowered the numbers of exposed children who developed thyroid cancer and called for the supplement to be widely used throughout the affected region.
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Friday, April 21st 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Britain's ?secret infantry'
Britain announced the creation of a new Special Forces unit on yesterday in a rare public statement about its legendary cadre of top-secret troops.
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Friday, April 21st 2006 - 21:00 UTC
The Queen is celebrating her 80th birthday.
She will mark the milestone with a traditional walkabout in the morning and a black-tie dinner in the evening with the rest of the Royal Family.
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Friday, April 21st 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Queen's Birthday Parade goes off without a bang
As befits a British territory, the birthday of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth, is celebrated each year in the Falkland Islands with a public holiday and a parade.
