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Stories for March 22nd 2014
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Saturday, March 22nd 2014 - 12:42 UTC
Falklands' operational campaign to be informed by US oil industry leader
The highest paid woman on a list of 500 Houston oil executives (2009) will be in the Falkland Islands next week with Noble Energy. She is scheduled to hold meetings with the local business community and members of the public for an operational update on Noble's Falklands' campaign.
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Saturday, March 22nd 2014 - 12:12 UTC
Putin formalizes Russia's takeover of Crimea despite US and EU sanctions
With a display of fireworks in Moscow and Crimea, President Vladimir Putin has signed a law formalizing Russia's takeover of Crimea from Ukraine, despite fresh sanctions from the EU and the US. The European Union's latest measures target twelve people involved in Russia's annexation of the peninsula.
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Saturday, March 22nd 2014 - 08:01 UTC
The Falklands/Malvinas: Brazil’s next regional headache?
By Oliver Stuenkel (*) - Brazil, foreign policy observers often point out, is blessed. Contrary to many other emerging powers such as China or India, it is located in a region that rarely experiences interstate tension or war. Not only can Brazil live on a relatively small defense budget, while India is the world's largest arms importer. Brazil can also dedicate considerable time and energy towards extending its global diplomatic reach without constantly being forced to deal with trouble in its neighborhood.
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Saturday, March 22nd 2014 - 07:50 UTC
Malvinas Families wish to have a chapel at Darwin cemetery and requested the “Pope's mediation”
The Malvinas war next of kin are trying to have a chapel or a sanctuary built at the Darwin cemetery, in the Falkland Islands where the remains of 237 Argentine combatants are buried. The idea is to convert “this space in dispute in a peregrination place”, according to a report from the Argentine official news agency Telam.
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Saturday, March 22nd 2014 - 07:37 UTC
Pope calls on the mafia to change or 'end up in hell, at annual ceremony for the mafiosi victims
Pope Francis, in an annual ceremony held to remember the hundreds of innocent people murdered by the Italian mafia, made a solemn plea for mobsters to change or else “end up in hell”. The mafia continues to plague much of southern Italy: just on Monday, a four-year-old boy was shot dead, along with his mother and her boyfriend, near the southern city of Taranto in a suspected mob hit.
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Saturday, March 22nd 2014 - 07:31 UTC
Mercosur and EU in another effort to advance in the long delayed trade agreement
Mercosur and European Union chief negotiators met on Friday in Brussels to define if conditions are ready for the exchange of tariffs reductions proposals with the purpose of reaching an ambitious trade agreement which was started back in 1999 and has yet to mature.
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Saturday, March 22nd 2014 - 07:11 UTC
Falklands' prosperity and economic boom surprises visiting Brazilian delegation
Visiting Brazilian political advisor and environmentalist Eduardo Viola emphatically expressed support for the Falkland Islands’ right of self-determination during a press conference in Stanley with other visiting Brazilian colleagues, reports this week's edition of Penguin News.
