Stories for April 23rd 2006

Sunday, April 23rd 2006 - 21:00 UTC

Chile fights low U.S. dollar, plans coppers superplus investments investment in foreign markets.

Chile's labor intensive fruit, wine and salmon export industries received good news Thursday when government officials announced plans to combat the falling price of the U.S. dollar.

Sunday, April 23rd 2006 - 21:00 UTC

Chernobyl controversy: 9.000 or 100.000 cancer deaths?

Some 5,000 people who were children and adolescents at the time of the world's worst-ever civil nuclear accident at Chernobyl, Ukraine, have so far been diagnosed with thyroid cancer, and there may be up to 9,000 excess cancer deaths, according to a new United Nations scientific study on the health impact of the disaster.

Sunday, April 23rd 2006 - 21:00 UTC

Kirchner, South Atlantic fisheries tough sheriff

Since taking office in 2003 the Argentine administration of president Nestor Kirchner has arrested more vessels illegally fishing in the South Atlantic than in the previous thirteen years points out the Buenos Aires daily Clarin in its Saturday edition.

Sunday, April 23rd 2006 - 21:00 UTC

Caruana tells Madrid audience “No movement on sovereignty”

Chief Minister Peter Caruana delivered a robust defence of Gibraltar's right to self-determination before a high-powered audience in the heart of Madrid last Friday.