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• Tuesday, March 14th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Chile and Bolivia willing to address “complex issues”

  Chile and Bolivia have agreed on a bilateral work program which will advance “gradually towards more complex problems” such as the resumption of diplomatic relations and an outlet to the sea announced Monday Chile's Foreign Affairs minister, Alejandro Foxley.

• Tuesday, March 14th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Mad cow disease found in U.S.

  A cow in Alabama has tested positive for mad cow disease, the Agriculture Department said Monday, confirming the third U.S. case of the brain-wasting ailment.

• Tuesday, March 14th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Bolivia, Uruguay invite Paraguay to join gas pipeline Project

  Bolivian President Evo Morales and Uruguayan counterpart Tabare Vazquez agreed here Monday to consider building a natural gas pipeline linking their respective countries and invited Paraguay to join the project.

• Tuesday, March 14th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  GOL Leadership in Internet Ticket Sales for 2005

  Brazil's low cost, low fare airline finished its second consecutive year as one of the largest e-commerce companies in Brazil.

• Tuesday, March 14th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentina glacier breaks apart

  Huge chunks of ice have tumbled off Argentina's Perito Moreno glacier - a rare spectacle that prompted a vigil by hundreds of tourists.

• Tuesday, March 14th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Chile passes anti-smoking law

  Chilean legislators approved a new anti-smoking law on Tuesday in a major step toward cutting the habit in a country where more than 40 percent of the people smoke.

• Monday, March 13th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  President Uribe posted for an easy re-election next May

  The six coalition parties which support Colombian president Alvaro Uribe managed a comfortable majority in Sundays' congressional elections which forecasts a significant boost for the president's re-election bid next May and his promised fiscal and political reforms in his second four year mandate.

• Monday, March 13th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Antarctica loosing 36 cubic miles of ice annually

  University of Colorado at Boulder researchers have used data from a pair of NASA satellites orbiting Earth in tandem to determine that the Antarctic ice sheet, which harbours 90% of Earth's ice, has lost significant mass in recent years.

• Monday, March 13th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  “Good Ilex season” reports Argentine press

  Jiggers operating in Argentina's EEZ are currently reporting significant Illex squid catches, with Puerto Deseado in Santa Cruz province, the main unloading port reports Diario de Madryn.

• Monday, March 13th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Brazilian Army outfoxed by favelas' drug dealers

  The Brazilian Army withdrew Monday from several Rio de Janeiro favelas, shantytowns, after having failed in recovering sophisticated weapons stolen from the Armed Forces by drug dealers.