Archive for April 26th, 2008
Saturday, April 26th, 2008
U.S. automaker General Motors Corp. said Friday it will resume production at its assembly plant in Detroit next Monday, after a strike at a key supplier forced it to shut down a month ago.
"We can resume regular production and we're ...
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Saturday, April 26th, 2008
Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has dismissed as a "shameless lie" claims that the production of ethanol increases food prices, saying the criticism showed the fact that developed countries fear Brazil's growth.
"When B ...
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Saturday, April 26th, 2008
Air raids carried out by international troops on Taliban militants in Afghanistan's eastern Paktika province have left over a dozen suspected insurgents dead, spokesman of provincial administration said Saturday.
"The NATO-led Interna ...
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Saturday, April 26th, 2008
Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has dismissed as a "shameless lie" claims that the production of ethanol increases food prices, saying the criticism showed the fact that developed countries fear Brazil's growth.
"When B ...
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Saturday, April 26th, 2008
Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa received an urgent medical checkup Friday since his left ear was bothering him while he was changing flights in the southeastern city of Machala.
A physician arrived at the airport to attend to Cor ...
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Saturday, April 26th, 2008
Costa Rica's Foreign Ministry on Friday expressed its protest to the United States following the detention of the country's general prosecutor.
Francisco Dall'Anesse was detained at Miami airport on April 23when he was about to ente ...
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Saturday, April 26th, 2008
The Uruguayan government on Friday defended the current tax regime that entered into force in July 2007, saying people's well-being "isn't an act of magic."
In a press release entitled "The Solidarity Costs", the government said tha ...
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Saturday, April 26th, 2008
Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Friday sanctioned a law approving a change in the western Amazon's time zone.
The law stipulates that clocks will no longer be five hours behind Greewich Mean Time (GMT) -- the time zo ...
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