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• Monday, July 25th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  It's official, April 5 Argentina-Chile Friendship Day

  Argentina and Chile's Foreign Affairs ministers Rafael Bielsa and Ignacio Walker officially confirmed April 5 as the “Argentine-Chilean Friendship Day” which has been added to both countries calendars.

• Sunday, July 24th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Telesur Goes on the Air Under Fire from U.S.

  Today will be the first day of broadcasting for a new Latin America-wide TV network aimed at competing with U.S. and European international news stations.

• Saturday, July 23rd 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Rio Group: fighting poverty is chief challenge in Latin America

  Eight foreign ministers and 11 undersecretaries from the Rio Group of Latin American nations took part in the two days of talks in Pilar, 70 kilometres northwest of Buenos Aires.

• Saturday, July 23rd 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  London Police defends policy of shooting suspected bombers

  London's top police official said he regrets the death of a Brazilian national shot and killed by armed officers in a subway station but defended the policy of shooting to kill suspected suicide bombers.

• Friday, July 22nd 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Santa Cruz police remove picketers from oilfields

  Police in the southern Patagonian province of Santa Cruz arrested Thursday more than 50 people in the course of ending a takeover of a Repsol YPF oilfield. But radicals and relatives from the detainees claimed many protesters were beaten.

• Friday, July 22nd 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Washington will not tolerate return of Sandinistas

  The President George Bush administration will do everything legally possible to prevent the leftist Sandinistas from returning to power in Central America's Nicaragua, said Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Roger Noriega.

• Friday, July 22nd 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  China scraps currency link to the US dollar

  China, Asia's second economy behind Japan revalued Thursday its currency 2%, the first time in a decade, and will let the Yuan float against a basket of currencies.

• Friday, July 22nd 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Bush pushes strongly for CAFTA

  President George W. Bush used a speech Thursday at the Organization of American States headquarters in Washington to put pressure on the U.S. House of Representatives to ratify a free-trade agreement with Central America, CAFTA.

• Friday, July 22nd 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  London in shock; Police call for new powers

  British police called for sweeping new powers Thursday - including holding terrorism suspects for up to three months without charge - after a second wave of bombings struck London's transport system.

• Friday, July 22nd 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Palermo Show opened in Buenos Aires

  A red Aberdeen Angus heifer was the first to access the Palermo grounds in Buenos Aires where Argentina's main agriculture and livestock show opened Thursday and will extend to August 2.