MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for June 1st 2016
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Wednesday, June 1st 2016 - 08:51 UTC
Night of fire and violence in Ushuaia as protestors are evicted from Government House grounds
Ushuaia suffered a night of violence, tear and pepper gas and fire when riot police dislodged an 80-day protest camp and tents of striking teachers and government employees next to Tierra del Fuego Government House. Seven people were reported injured including a policeman and a fireman, when tents were set on fire, and unions claimed it was a savage and brutal display of government repression
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Wednesday, June 1st 2016 - 08:40 UTC
Ban Ki-moon emphasizes on the 'freely expressed will' for non-self-governing territories
According to the UN charter the full measure of self-government of the peoples of the Non-Self-Governing Territories must be the result of the freely expressed will and desire of those peoples, said UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in his message to the opening of the Pacific Regional Seminar on Decolonization, currently taking place in Managua, Nicaragua.
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Wednesday, June 1st 2016 - 06:28 UTC
Brazilians disenchanted with their elected officials and a majority believes “nothing will change”
Brazilians have become increasingly disappointed with politics and their elected politicians, according to an Ibope Intelligence opinion poll collecting reactions to the current political situations, which has a suspended president, Dilma Rousseff; an interim leader Michel Temer, and a divided Congress.
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Wednesday, June 1st 2016 - 06:06 UTC
Maduro to Almagro: “stick up the Democratic Charter wherever it fits”
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said on Tuesday that Organization of American States chief Luis Almagro had called for foreign “intervention” in his country by invoking the body’s Democratic Charter in response to the political crisis in Venezuela.
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Wednesday, June 1st 2016 - 03:11 UTC
Falklands, after 'boom' years, announces a prudent mid/term sustainable budget
The Falkland Islands Financial Secretary Nicola Granger presented on Tuesday to the Legislative Assembly the 2016/17 financial budget bill with appropriations of £62.9M, funded from revenues anticipated in the year of £61.3M with the remainder coming from the reserves built up from wind-falls in Illex catches and oil and gas exploration in recent years.
