MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for June 13th 2010
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Sunday, June 13th 2010 - 03:23 UTC
Mrs. Clinton promises to sponsor US/Colombia trade agreement
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton promised this week after meeting with Colombian president Alvaro Uribe that when she returns to Washington she will begin “a very intensive effort to try to obtain the votes to get the free trade agreement with Colombia finally ratified”.
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Sunday, June 13th 2010 - 01:31 UTC
UK Deputy PM Clegg reaffirms Falklands’ British sovereignty
Britain’s Deputy Primer Minister Liberal-Democrat Nick Clegg said in Spain there will be no change in the stance of the Falkland Islands sovereignty and the Islanders wish to remain British.
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Sunday, June 13th 2010 - 01:27 UTC
Major low-cost airline servicing the Caribbean grounded over pay contract
Hundreds of pilots for Spirit Airlines, which services the Caribbean, walked off their jobs early Saturday morning after negotiations over pay broke down. In what industry analysts say is the first strike at a US passenger airline in nearly five years, pilots at the low-cost carrier took industrial action as negotiations reached a stalemate.
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Sunday, June 13th 2010 - 01:20 UTC
In the even of Vatican top official visit, Cuba frees paraplegic political dissident
The Cuban government has freed a jailed dissident and moved six others to jails closer to their homes. Senior Catholic clergymen had urged Cuban president Raul Castro to release Ariel Sigler, 47, on humanitarian grounds.
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Sunday, June 13th 2010 - 01:18 UTC
Chavez’ Venezuela “recalls us the times of our won dictatorship`”
The incorporation of Venezuela to Mercosur faces a tough battle in the Paraguayan congress following statements’ from the Upper House president who said that “it recalls us the time of the (Alfredo Stroessner) dictatorship” adding it was difficult to dissociate the country from the figure of Hugo Chavez.
