MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for December 25th 2010
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Saturday, December 25th 2010 - 08:50 UTC
Flyglobespan MOD charter to Falklands faces £ 4 million redundancies claim
Flyglobespan, the airline that had a contract with the UK Ministry of Defence to cover the twice weekly shuttle to the Falkland Islands and collapsed a year ago, is facing a £4 million claim from former staff over its failure to consult on redundancies.
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Saturday, December 25th 2010 - 08:42 UTC
EU blocks Uruguayan squid shipment because of high cadmium content
The European Union blocked a shipment of squid from Uruguay’s main fishing processing group Fripur S.A. and sent Uruguayan authorities what is known as “rapid sanitary alert” explaining the motive for such a decision.
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Saturday, December 25th 2010 - 08:34 UTC
US scientists looking into data suggesting sustained decline of Antarctic krill
By Susan Moran - They’re called “the krillers” around Palmer Station, because they’re always on the hunt for Antarctic krill: tiny, shrimp-like crustaceans that form the foundation of the Antarctic food web.
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Saturday, December 25th 2010 - 08:28 UTC
Mujica is an ‘emblematic figure and a great asset’ of Uruguay’s foreign policy
President Jose Mujica is an “emblematic” figure at regional level and is one of the great assets of Uruguay’s foreign policy, said Foreign Affairs minister Luis Almagro on making a review of the first ten months of the administration.
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Saturday, December 25th 2010 - 08:21 UTC
Those for a unified Korea raise your hands
*By Gwynne Dyer - South Korea’s Defence minister, Kim Tae-Young, was forced to resign after criticism that he was too slow to respond when North Korea attacked the island of Yeonpeong killing at least four people. But what was he supposed to do? What can his replacement, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Kim Kwan-jin, do?
