MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for October 24th 2007
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Wednesday, October 24th 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Twenty leaders confirmed for the IberoAmerican summit
Twenty leaders of Ibero-America will be participating in the coming XVII Ibero-American summit scheduled for next November 8/10 in Santiago announced Chilean Foreign Secretary Alejandro Foxley on Tuesday.
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Wednesday, October 24th 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Three expeditions to assert Chile's Antarctic commitment
Three Chilean expeditions with strong political emphasis are ready to land in Antarctica before the end of the year with the purpose of asserting Chilean sovereignty following on the Foreign Office's off-Antarctica territory claim.
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Wednesday, October 24th 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Argentina has average cheaper domestic and regional air rates
Argentina has the lowest domestic air rates in Latinamerica and the Caribbean according to the latest report from American Express Business Travel Monitor released this week. Argentina's air rates are also among the cheapest in the “inter-regional” and international flights to United States and Europe says the report which monitored rates during the first six months of this year.
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Wednesday, October 24th 2007 - 20:00 UTC
China became last August world's leading exporter
China last August became the world's leading exporter overtaking Germany, according to information from the World Trade Organization. China's exports totaled 111.4 billion US dollars and the until that moment leader, 105.8 billion.
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Wednesday, October 24th 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Lack of water conditions future of Chile's mining industry
Sergio Gonzalez, one of four Chileans working with the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), warned this week that the economic future of Chile's mining industry cannot be sustained unless the nation deals seriously with its growing water shortage.
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Wednesday, October 24th 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Falkland Islands: British reservists re-live Royal Marine history
ONE hundred Royal Marine reservists exercising in the Falklands have paid tribute to victims of the 1982 War and attended a reception in their honour hosted by the His Excellency the Governor Alan Huckle.
