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• Tuesday, November 28th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Pulp mill fight: Gorbachev intervention ?ridiculous'

  Presidents Néstor Kirchner and Tabaré Vázquez act like two deaf men not willing to hear each other and who do not want to meet to talk, the 1980 Nobel Peace Laureate Adolfo Pérez Esquivel said yesterday.

• Tuesday, November 28th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Uncovering 19th century history in Valparaíso port bay

  A delicately elaborated nautical telescope, metal handheld lamps, intact pieces of dinnerware, and even a sailor's shoe buckle are among the artifacts recovered from a sunken merchant ship in the bay of Chile's main port, Valparaíso, discovered by a submarine sent out to monitor the progress of a project to make the bay deeper.

• Tuesday, November 28th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Gibraltar referendum on new Constitution

  The Gibraltar Government has issued a public call urging to “vote ?yes' for progress” in the coming Thursday referendum on the new Constitution, reports the Gibraltar Chronicle.

• Tuesday, November 28th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Brazil's target: oil and gas reliable self sufficiency

  Brazil's oil and gas industry already represents 9% of the country's GDP and should be reaching 10% some time next year, according to Haroldo Lima head of the Oil, Gas & Biofuels Nacional Agency.

• Tuesday, November 28th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Quebec, a nation within Canada, divides Liberals

  The Canadian Parliament formally recognized this week French speaking province Quebec as a nation within Canada following a motion presented by Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

• Tuesday, November 28th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Bernanke: US economy set to grow at moderate rate

  The United States economy appears healthy and likely to continue growing at “a moderate rate” over the next year or so, causing price pressures to gradually ebb, but risks of inflation and a worse than expected housing slump could complicate said Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke in New York.

• Tuesday, November 28th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Paulson demands greater currency flexibility from China

  United States Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said Tuesday in London that “the need for greater currency flexibility” is a short term issue facing US-China relations.

• Tuesday, November 28th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Argentina heading for record fisheries export year, but?

  Argentine fisheries exports are forecasted to reach over a billion US dollars this year according to Fisheries and Aquaculture Under Secretary Gerardo Nieto.

• Monday, November 27th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  De-mining operations begin in Tierra del Fuego

  Chile begun last Friday de-mining operations in a strategic area of Tierra del Fuego, the first chapter of a project to free the area from the 130.000 antipersonnel and anti tank mines dating back thirty years in the peak of tension with Argentina.

• Monday, November 27th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Chavez holds final election rally

  President Hugo Chavez told hundreds of thousands of red-clad supporters Sunday that he will win re-election next weekend by an overwhelming margin and dedicate his victory to ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro.