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Stories for September 2006

• Tuesday, September 19th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Bolivia's second attempt to nationalize oil and gas

  Bolivian Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera warned oil companies that time is running out for agreeing new contracts in compliance with the country's nationalization of the hydrocarbons industry.

• Monday, September 18th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  IMF recommends Argentina to invest in energy

  Argentina needs more productive investment, particularly in the energy sector, if it wishes to sustain the current rates of growth, said Anoop Singh, head of the IMF Western Hemisphere Department during a press conference Saturday in Singapore.

• Monday, September 18th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  UN marks Ozone Layer Preservation Day

  Efforts to protect the ozone layer are showing signs of progress, but much remains to be done to restore this life-saving part of the earth's atmosphere that filters out the sun's harmful ultraviolet rays, Secretary-General Kofi Annan said in a message marking the International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer.

• Monday, September 18th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Kirchner takes Falklands' issue to UN assembly

  Business, human rights and Malvinas/Falklands are among the main topics which the Argentine delegation headed by President Nestor Kirchner and First Lady Cristina Fernandez will be addressing in New York this week during the United Nations General Assembly, reports the Buenos Aires press.

• Monday, September 18th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  ?Satisfactory results' for FIH

  DAVID HUDD, Chairman of Falkland Islands Holdings parent company of the Falkland Islands Company Ltd, has said the company's operations in the Islands, “have continued to provide satisfactory results,” at the Annual General Meeting held last week.

• Monday, September 18th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Historic agreement over Gibraltar

  United Kingdom, Gibraltar and Spain concluded Monday in Cordoba, Spain, a landmark agreement on a range of cross-cutting issues affecting the Rock and its citizens.

• Monday, September 18th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Yet another scandal rocks Brazil and Lula's ruling party

  With less than two weeks for the presidential election Brazil was again rocked by yet another political scandal allegedly involving the ruling Workers Party with the purpose of smearing the reputation of opposition candidates.

• Monday, September 18th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  IMF two year reform process launched in Singapore

  The International Monetary Fund, IMF, agreed Monday on reforms giving China, Mexico, South Korean and Turkey more say in how the multilateral institution is run.

• Monday, September 18th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Oil imports push US current account deficit

  Record oil import costs pushed United States current account deficit to 218.4 billion US dollars in the second quarter, equivalent to 6% of total US economic output, reported the US Department of Commerce.

• Monday, September 18th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Venezuela/Iran: no end to mutual “revolutionary” praise

  Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Venezuela's Hugo Chavez's inaugurated Monday a joint heavy oil/tar sands exploration operation in the Orinoco belt which if confirmed in 2008 could make Venezuela the country with the world's largest hydrocarbons reserves.