Friday, June 29, 2007
SEOUL, South Korea - South Korea and the United States have agreed on final changes to their free trade agreement, paving the way for its signing on June 30, the prime minister's office said Friday.Prime Minister Han Duck-soo told managing editors of major newspapers and broadcast outlets that Seoul and Washington had agreed to change parts of the agreement to include new U.S. labor and environmental standards for free trade agreements, his office said.Han said the agreement was reached and "tra...
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Friday, June 29, 2007
This one is not about the Sebastian Property Owners Association as an organization, but about the kindness and generosity of a large number of its members as individuals at a time when they were asked to help.
There is a lovely woman named Mabel Bradley, who comes from Colombia, South America. She is employed as a housekeeper at Disney's Vero Beach Resort, has a Green Card and more than five years ago applied to become a United States citizen.
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Friday, June 29, 2007
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Friday, June 29, 2007
WASHINGTON—Congress sent President Bush a short-term extension of a trade agreement with four South American nations on Thursday.
The Senate passed a bipartisan compromise worked out earlier this week extending the Andean Trade Promotion and Drug Eradication Act for eight months. The House passed it Wednesday.
The act, which was to expire at midnight Saturday, provides duty-free access to U.S. markets for some 5,600 products from Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. It was signed into law in 1991 with the goal of offering economic incentives to combat drug production and trafficking in the four Andean nations.
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Friday, June 29, 2007
Colombia quedó horrorizada ayer al amanecer con la noticia de la muerte de 11 diputados del departamento del Valle del Cauca que se hallaban secuestrados desde abril del 2002 por las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) en lo que, según el gobierno, fue una masacre del grupo guerrillero cometida el pasado 18 de junio.
El presidente Alvaro Uribe culpó directamente a las FARC ''del asesinato de los diputados vallecaucanos'' a tiempo que las FARC informaban que los secuestrados murieron durante un enfrentamiento con el ejército.
El único diputado sobreviviente fue Sigifredo López, abogado de 40 años. Su paradero y su estado de salud se desconocen por completo.
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