MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for 2006
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Tuesday, September 19th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
With spring bloom come El Niño and deadly algae
Chilean investigators warned this week that temperatures in Chile's coastal waters have increased by half a degree since August, setting the stage for the arrival of “El Niño” by the end of this year.
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Tuesday, September 19th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Housing slump expected to leave Fed rate unchanged
House construction in United States dropped 6% in August while producer prices rose by just 0.1% following on moderate energy costs.
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Tuesday, September 19th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Leading Ecuadorian candidate rides on anti-US feeling
The Ecuadorian presidential candidate leading public opinion polls said that if elected he will not extend a current agreement enabling United States to undertake counter drugs operations from a strategic air base in Ecuador.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
