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Stories for May 2006

• Saturday, May 27th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Chile's first cloned cow expected for December

  Researchers at the Universidad Austral de Chile (Uach) are closer to reaching their goal of cloning the first cow in Chile. Scientists expect Chile's first bovine clone to be born December 2006.

• Saturday, May 27th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  3.000 dead as quake rocks Indonesia

  A powerful earthquake flattened buildings in central Indonesia, killing at least 3.000 people and injuring thousands more in the country's worst disaster since the 2004 tsunami.

• Saturday, May 27th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Venezuela, Spain sign deal on military boats

  Spain will start building eight military patrol boats for Venezuela under a long-awaited deal that was signed Friday and has angered the United States.

• Saturday, May 27th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Agreement to promote high seas sustainable fishing

  Countries agreed Friday on a wide range of recommendations to promote sustainable fishing on the high seas as a conference to review the implementation of a landmark treaty on managing and conserving valuable fish stocks concluded at United Nations Headquarters in New York.

• Friday, May 26th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Chile welcomes French President Chirac

  There is something slightly forlorn about the French president, Jacques Chirac's four day visit to South America. Chirac, who is due to land in Santiago later today, Friday, is coming into the last year of his second presidential term.

• Friday, May 26th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Penguin News Update.

  Headlines:
  Lovely Layla is May Queen; Budget 2006/07: healthy surplus forecast; Come on England!; A day of exercise; ?Back off, Argentina'.

• Friday, May 26th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Falkland Islands annual budget carefully balanced

  Unexpected increases in investment revenue and taxation have both contributed to a better than expected year for the finances of the Falkland Islands Government.

• Thursday, May 25th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Venezuela begins incorporation process to Mercosur

  Venezuela signed Wednesday in Buenos Aires the protocol establishing the full incorporation to South America's main trade block Mercosur.

• Thursday, May 25th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  OAS head denies the region is “turning left or right”

  The Secretary General of the Organisation of American States Jose Miguel Insulza admitted tensions inside Mercosur but denied Latinamerican countries are increasingly divided over ideology.

• Thursday, May 25th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  UN proposes measures to limit illegal fishing

  Increased controls over ports and fishing vessels that could reduce illegal fishing were proposed by several countries Thursday at a United Nations conference that is reviewing a landmark conservation and management agreement on fish stocks.