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Jamaica branch of Cuba-Venezuela cable goes live
ALBA -1 submarine cable, which connects the island with Venezuela, according to Doug Madory of internet analysis firm Renesys. Madory told The Associated Press that he detected new traffic between state-owned telecoms monopoly Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Cuba (ETECSA) and Cable & Wireless Jamaica beginning 13 May 2013. 'They’re gaining some physical diversity there, so if ...
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Venezuela Suffers Through Toilet Paper Shortage
Venezuela is rich in oil, but relies on imports for many basic goods -- including toothpaste, soap and toilet paper. For weeks now the country has had a chronic toilet paper shortage. Lawmakers voted to approve a $79 million credit to the government to resolve the ...
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ELN took soldier prisoner in deadly northeast Colombia attack Army
Guerrillas of the ELN have taken one soldier prisoner in Wednesday attack that has so far cost the lives of ten soldiers and injured 11 others, authorities ...
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Venezuela toilet paper shortage sends ordinary lives around the bend
Venezuelans queue in Caracas to buy toilet paper. Last week the government announced an emergency shipment to boost supplies. Photograph: Jorge ...
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UPDATE 1-Brazil to hold oil auction in October one month early
Thu May 23, 2013 7:50am EDT * Production-sharing auction to be 1st under 2010 law * Sale to offer some of most promising offshore areas * Govt to include giant Libra prospect in sale RIO DE JANEIRO, May 23 (Reuters) - Brazil plans to hold an auction for rights to explore some of its most promising offshore oil and natural gas areas in October, one month earlier than expected. The government will ...
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STXNEWS LATAM-Brazils OSX fires 300 in restructuring -report
Thu May 23, 2013 7:48am EDT OSX Brasil SA, the shipyard and ship leasing company controlled by Brazilian billionaire Eike Batista, fired 300 employees as part of an effort to cut costs, O Estado de S. Paulo said on Thursday. According to Estado, which did not cite anyone as the source for the information, the company decided to slow down construction of a shipyard until receiving new orders. The ...
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Northern Ireland healthcare firm lands business in Brazil
Arlene Foster attended South America's largest healthcare exhibition.The company currently employs around 110 people and exports to 55 countries including the ...
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UAE President and Vice President Congratulate Argentina and Eritrea on National Day
May 23, 2013 - 02:22 - WAM ABU DHABI, May 23th, 2013 (WAM)-- Congratulatory cables were sent today by President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan to the President of Argentina, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, and to the President of Eritrea, Isaias Afewerki, on the occasion of their respective countries' National ...
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British PM Seeks Answers to Terrorist Attack
British Prime Minister David Cameron was meeting Thursday with his top security advisers, one day after a man was butchered to death in broad daylight on a south London street near an army ...
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Syrian Opposition Meets on Proposed Peace Talks
The main Syrian opposition coalition is meeting in Istanbul for three days of talks that will include its potential involvement in proposed peace talks with the Syrian ...
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UN Chief Arrives in Goma After Renewed Fighting
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has arrived in the eastern Democratic Republic Congo, where renewed clashes between rebels and army troops broke out this ...
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May 23 The PM’s P-tactics Prorogue and Peru – and other letters to the editor
Prime Minister Stephen Harper inspects an honour guard at Government Palace in Lima, Peru, on Wednesday, May 22, 2013. (Sean Kilpatrick/THE CANADIAN ...
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Raw 80-Year-Old Climbs Mount Everest
80-year-old Japanese mountain climber Yuichiro Miura reached the top of Mount Everest on Thursday. Miura is the oldest person to ever reach the Mount Everest summit. (May ...
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Brazil president says asylum offer to adulterous Iran woman is humanitarian gesture
The decision to give refuge to a convicted Iranian woman should be seen as a humanitarian act without political motives, said Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. "I made the offer for humanitarianism, instead of politics," Xinhua quoted da Silva, as saying while referring to the case of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, 43, who has been convicted of adultery and sentenced to ...
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Pakistan Blast Targets Security Personnel
Officials in southwest Pakistan say an explosion has ripped through a vehicle used by security forces, killing at least 12 people -- 11 security personnel and a civilian. Nearly two dozen people were wounded in the assault. Police officials say a remote controlled car bomb targeted a vehicle carrying police special forces in Quetta Thursday. Authorities say the bomb contained about 100 ...
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Twin Bomb Attacks in Niger Wound 13
Officials in Niger say a military base and a French-owned uranium mine were hit by separate bomb attacks early Thursday, wounding an unknown number of ...
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Kerry Continues Israeli-Palestinian Peace Push
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is holding another round of talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders aimed at getting the two sides to restart their stalled peace ...
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Japan Shares Plunge 7 Following Negative Chinese Data
Japanese share prices Thursday experienced their worst one-day decline in two years, following the release of unexpectedly negative Chinese manufacturing ...
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Infants to get free milk in Paraguay
ASUNCION, Paraguay -- Paraguay exports enough soy, wheat and corn to feed 80 million people, more than 10 times its population, and its rivers provide abundant fresh water. But 14 percent of its children suffer chronic malnutrition, and many others lack clean drinking ...
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Globovisions new owners say news channel will contribute to peace not conflict in Venezuela
CARACAS, Venezuela - The new owners of Venezuela's only television channel to take critical stands against the government say they will, in their words, "contribute to a climate of peace and not of conflict." That comment came after a meeting with socialist President Nicolas Maduro, and it was seen by some people as a sign Globovision will tone down its anti-government line. A ...
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IP Theft Costs US $300 Billion Per Year Report
A private advisory panel says growing intellectual property theft, mainly by China, is costing the United States more than $300 billion each ...
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UN Nuclear Agency Says Iran Expanded Nuclear Activity
The International Atomic Energy Agency says Iran has taken a significant step toward building a reactor that Western experts say could provide a second path to producing material for a nuclear ...
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Argentina’s ex-dictator Videla dead at 87
General Jorge Rafael Videla, who headed the bloody military junta that seized power in Argentina in 1976, died last Friday in a Marcos Paz prison cell. The coup that toppled the government of President Isabel Peron unleashed both economic devastation as well as mass repression against the working class for seven years (the "dirty war") until it fell following the defeat of ...
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Globovision owners hint at toned-down news stance
CARACAS, Venezuela -; The new owners of Venezuela's only television channel to take critical stands against the government say they will, in their words, "contribute to a climate of peace and not of ...
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Uruguay will Launch Small Satellite by Year End
Montevideo, May 23 (Prensa Latina) Uruguay prepares a satellite 20 by 10 centimeters, capable of taking pictures with normal and infrared cameras to a distance of 600 kilometers and sent them to Earth. If all goes well, the first Uruguayan satellite, which function is to take pictures of that South American territory to be used for research, such as measuring the temperature of a cloud or ...
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