MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for March 29th 2011
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Tuesday, March 29th 2011 - 04:38 UTC
Jose Comblin, one of the Liberation theology ideologues dies in Brazil
The renowned theologian Jose Comblin one of the most important representatives of Latin America’s liberation theology has died in Brazil of natural causes. The Catholic Church in Brazil announced that Comblin died Sunday at a hospital in the city of Salvador. He was 88.
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Tuesday, March 29th 2011 - 01:36 UTC
Clarin blocked edition: fingers point to Moyano with CFK’s consent
Under the excuse of a labour conflict there’s a clear intention to put pressure on the newspaper, said Daniel Santoro national news editor of Argentina’s main daily Clarin, which was impeded from circulating Sunday by 12 hour-pickets that respond to the head of Argentina’s organized labour, Hugo Moyano.
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Tuesday, March 29th 2011 - 00:55 UTC
African migrants flood Italian islands: 19.000 since civil unrest begun in January
Nearly 2,000 African migrants, many of them Eritrean and Somalis, have arrived on Italy's tiny, overcrowded Lampedusa Island in the past 24 hours. It is one of the biggest migrant waves to reach Lampedusa this year.
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Tuesday, March 29th 2011 - 00:53 UTC
Royal Navy former flagship HMS Ark Royal up for sale on MoD website
British aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal is up for sale on the Ministry of Defence's auction website. The Royal Navy's former flagship was decommissioned two weeks ago after 25 years in service as part of the government's defence budget review.
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Tuesday, March 29th 2011 - 00:49 UTC
Gold chain found off Key West; could belong to 17th century Spanish galleon
Divers from Mel Fisher's Treasures in Key West, extreme south Florida, have recovered an antique gold chain believed to be from the Spanish galleon Nuestra Señora de Atocha, which sank during a 1622 hurricane. In 1985, these same treasure hunters had previously found more than 450 million US dollars in artefacts from the wreck.
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Tuesday, March 29th 2011 - 00:43 UTC
Jackpot with 319 million US dollars benefited seven New York state employees
Despite reports that seven New York state government workers held the winning 319 million US dollars ticket in the Mega Millions lottery, as of Sunday, no one had come forward to claim the prize, a New York Lottery spokeswoman said Monday.
