MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for April 24th 2008
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Thursday, April 24th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
HMS Nottingham in UK; HMS Liverpool bound south
HMS Nottingham returns to her home port of Portsmouth on Friday after a six-month operational deployment patrolling the South Atlantic conducting maritime security operations.
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Thursday, April 24th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
US supports South American Defence council proposal
The Brazilian proposal for a South American Defence Council is considered “interesting” by United States but Washington has no immediate reaction to the issue said Thomas Shannon, US Under Secretary of State for Latinamerica, according to an interview published in the Sao Paulo financial newspaper, Valor.
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Thursday, April 24th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Punta Arenas airport marks record passenger growth
Passenger traffic in Punta Arenas airport, extreme south of Chile, increased 14% during 2007 according to statistics supplied by the head of the air terminal, Juan Carlos Oneto.
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Thursday, April 24th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
UN warns on biodiversity loss impact for medicine
Finding treatments for cancer, thinning bone disease and kidney failure are at risk due to biodiversity loss, a ground-breaking new United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) book cautioned.
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Thursday, April 24th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Poor countries have yet “to benefit from trade liberalization”
Landlocked and least developed countries (LDCs) have been further marginalized as a result of trade liberalization, which has led to increased growth in many parts of the world, a senior United Nations official has said.
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Thursday, April 24th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Paraguay: progressive president and conservative congress
Paraguay's President-elect Fernando Lugo will face a largely conservative Congress that may make carrying out his reforms difficult, according to the vice president-elect Federico Franco.
