MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for February 4th 2016
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Thursday, February 4th 2016 - 18:19 UTC
Toxic algae bloom in south Chile threatening salmon farms
Chilean aquaculture company Multiexports Food reported that due to the harmful algal bloom (HAB) recorded in various areas of the southern Regions X and XI of Chile, their production centers of Huyar and Lligua have suffered “significant fish mortality,” which has not been quantified yet.
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Thursday, February 4th 2016 - 08:17 UTC
Magallanes region in south Chile could hold a treasure of unconventional tight gas
The U.S. Geological Survey estimates that the Glauconitica zone of Chile's southernmost Magallanes region holds nearly 8.3 trillion cubic feet of technically recoverable, unconventional tight gas, or nearly double Chile's production of that fossil fuel over the past 70 years.
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Thursday, February 4th 2016 - 07:59 UTC
Santos at the White House will ask for help to implement Colombia's peace accord
Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos has said he will ask President Obama to help implement a peace accord that his government expects to sign with the Farc rebel group next month. The two presidents will meet at the White House on Thursday.
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Thursday, February 4th 2016 - 07:45 UTC
Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal signed by 12 member nations in New Zealand
The Trans Pacific Partnership, one of the biggest multinational trade deals ever, has been signed by ministers from its 12 member nations in New Zealand. The ceremony in Auckland brings the huge trade pact, which has been five years in the making, another step towards to becoming a reality. But the TPP continues to face opposition.
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Thursday, February 4th 2016 - 07:29 UTC
“Attacks on Islam are attacks on all religions” says Obama at Maryland mosque
President Barack Obama visited an American mosque on Wednesday and declared that attacks on Islam were an attack on all religions, in an effort to counter rhetoric from Donald Trump and other Republican presidential candidates that has alienated Muslims.
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Thursday, February 4th 2016 - 07:21 UTC
Kirchnerite opposition splits; Macri now has the main block in the Lower House
Argentina's main opposition party suffered a split on Wednesday after an estimated fifteen of its lawmakers quit, party leaders admitted, handing a boost to newly-elected President Mauricio Macri's hopes of pushing his legislative agenda through Congress. In effect, Macri's political alliance in the Lower House becomes the majority grouping.
