MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for May 2010
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Saturday, May 1st 2010 - 00:59 UTC
Iceland Displeased with Whale Hunting Quota Threatens to Pull Out of IWC
Twelve member countries of the International Whaling Commission (IWC)—an 88-country organization created in 1946 to monitor the whaling industry—have proposed catch quotas for the next ten years for countries that hunt whales.
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Saturday, May 1st 2010 - 00:36 UTC
Colombia Conditions Vote for the UNASUR chairman
Colombian Foreign Affairs minister Jaime Bermúdez Merizalde said Friday that before the standing chairman of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) is decided, Uruguay and Argentina must solve their differences.
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Saturday, May 1st 2010 - 00:30 UTC
German Court Says not Releasing Files on Nazi Criminal Eichmann “Unlawful”
A German court said Friday the government had no legal basis to keep under wraps secret files on Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi architect of the Holocaust, potentially paving the way for their release.
