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Stories for September 17th 2008
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Wednesday, September 17th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
US current account deficit increased 4.3% in second Q
United States current account trade deficit increased by 4.3% to 183.1 billion US dollars in the second quarter of this year, up from 175.6 billion in the first quarter, the US Commerce Department reported Wednesday.
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Wednesday, September 17th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
EU fisheries policy failed to protect stocks; new review
The European Commission has announced a full review of the EU Common Fisheries Policy, saying the current regime fails to protect fish stocks. EC says that fishermen who obey the fishing rules are being penalized by the irresponsible behavior of others who flout them.
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Wednesday, September 17th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
“Mare Australis” opened cruise season in Ushuaia
Last Tuesday Ushuaia, in Argentine Tierra del Fuego, declared the 2008/09 cruise season officially inaugurated with the arrival of Chilean flagged “Mare Australis”, reports the local press.
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Wednesday, September 17th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
“Civil war risk persists” if Morales remains intransigent
Bolivian president Evo Morales should accept a credible international mediation to avoid a more serious confrontation with the opposition, or he runs the risk of triggering a civil war in the country, warns Eduardo Gamara, a Bolivian political scientist and professor at the International University of Florida in Miami.
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Wednesday, September 17th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Paraguay's Lugo in Brazil to demand “electricity fair deal”
Paraguay's new President Fernando Lugo visited Brazil Wednesday with the purpose of launching talks on a deal to give the landlocked country a fairer share of the revenue for the electricity generated by a huge dam built across the two countries border.
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Wednesday, September 17th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Canadian company finds crude in northeast Argentina
An oil deposit was discovered in an exploratory well in the northeast Argentina province of Formosa announced the Canadian company Gran Tierra Energy Inc. The Calgary based company said Wednesday it plans long-term production testing on the Proa.x-1 well and will begin commercial oil sales in about a week.
