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Stories for August 3rd 2008

• Sunday, August 3rd 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Lula da Silva and Chavez in Argentina to talk about trade

  

  Presidents Lula da Silva of Brazil and Hugo Chavez from arrived Sunday night in Buenos Aires where they will meet President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner to discuss pending issues, such as trade relations between the three countries.

• Sunday, August 3rd 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Brazil changing military strategy to rapid strike force

  

  Brazil does not intend or is planning a massive troop build-up along its northern borders but wants a well-equipped rapid strike force to dissuade foreign intrusions, a senior government official said this weekend.

• Sunday, August 3rd 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentine farmers: “never again caboose on camp decisions”

  

  Stating that whoever attacks the camp “attacks Argentina” and promising to “never again accept being the caboose of the decisions that compromise the farm's integrity and destiny”, the president of the Argentine Rural Society Lucinao Miguens inaugurated this weekend the country's main agro-show in the Palermo premises.

• Sunday, August 3rd 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  “Cool UN” initiative: dress causal and turn down air conditioning

  

  Critics who say the United Nations only churns out hot air will find even more of the stuff if they visit the UN New York headquarters this month. Under the Cool UN initiative, the air conditioning will be turned down and temperatures will rise several degrees.