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• Saturday, February 25th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  191 nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize 2006

  Altogether 168 individuals and 23 organizations have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize 2006. This is slightly less than last year's record of 199 candidates. The Norwegian Nobel Committee will announce the winner in the middle of October.

• Saturday, February 25th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Paintings by European masters stolen from Rio museum

  A spectacular robbery of art works by Picasso, Matisse, Monet and Dali marred the start of the Rio Carnival on Friday, which saw a slimmer than usual King Momo kick off festivities to feverish samba rhythms.

• Friday, February 24th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Venezuela Bars Two U.S. Airlines

  Venezuela has prohibited Continental Airlines and Delta Air Lines from flying into this South American nation and is restricting American Airlines, Francisco Plaz, the president of the National Aviation Institute, said.

• Friday, February 24th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Lame CAFTA becomes effective March 1

  The free trade agreement between United States, Central America and the Dominican Republic, CAFTA, becomes effective next March 1, with two months delay and involving only one of Latinamerican countries, El Salvador.

• Friday, February 24th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Uruguay ended 2005 with a 264 million trade deficit

  Uruguay experienced a trade deficit of 264 million US dollars in 2005 in spite of a significant surge in exports, according to the latest release from the Central Bank

• Friday, February 24th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Rio do Janeiro open the most famous Carnival

  The Rei Momo, or Carnival King, officially kicked off five days and nights of nonstop partying Friday with a special appeal for revelers to practice safe sex.

• Friday, February 24th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentine president accused of withholding information

  Argentina's main association of journalistic organizations on Friday accused President Nestor Kirchner of imposing blatant restrictions on the flow of information regarding his administration.

• Thursday, February 23rd 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Arias Wins Costa Rican Presidential Vote

  Former president and Nobel laureate Oscar Arias won Costa Rica's Feb. 5 presidential election, a press group said Wednesday, citing figures from a manual recount of the ballots

• Thursday, February 23rd 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Brazil's Lula would win re-election

  Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's popularity has bounced back from a corruption scandal that threatened to derail his government, making him the favourite to win October's election, a poll showed on Tuesday.

• Thursday, February 23rd 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Caruana to make statement today

  Trilateral talks continued late last night in Chevening, Kent as Chief Minister, Peter Caruana, and Jose Pons and Dominick Chilcott the respective Spanish and British diplomats leading on negotiations, worked to try and close a series of items that would allow talks at ministerial level to go ahead ?in the near future'.