Copyright (c) 2004 Prensa Latina s.a. All rights reserved.http://www.plenglish.comNorth AmericaENinter@prensa-latina.cuWed, 20 Aug 2008 18:45:06 GMT1http://www.plenglish.comhttp://www.plenglish.com/images/rsslogo.gifarticle.asp?ID={4F2E3E09-88AD-4BFE-84BC-FA34436B137A}&language=ENarticle.asp?ID={4F2E3E09-88AD-4BFE-84BC-FA34436B137A}&language=EN8/20/2008 8:26:59 PMWarsaw, Aug 20 (Prensa Latina) Poland and the United States signed an agreement on Wednesday to deploy ten antimissile batteries here, despite opposition from Russia, which says the deal is a threat to national security.article.asp?ID={F5D1FBF6-251B-4379-9DFC-531309864A2A}&language=ENarticle.asp?ID={F5D1FBF6-251B-4379-9DFC-531309864A2A}&language=EN8/18/2008 11:12:32 PMHavana, Aug 18 (Prensa Latina) Tropical storm Fay is farther away from Cuba, but left behind rains associated to this meteor still falling over the central provinces, said Cuban Weather Forecast center at midday Monday.

Fay Exits Cuba, Now in Florida Strait

article.asp?ID={DE462C32-7813-49FE-9696-4D07725FC955}&language=ENarticle.asp?ID={DE462C32-7813-49FE-9696-4D07725FC955}&language=EN8/18/2008 3:12:16 PMHavana, Aug 18 (Prensa Latina) Tropical Storm Fay entered Cuban territory by the Zapata Penninsula and exited through Cardenas in Matanzas province, sparing the capital as it had previously been forecast.article.asp?ID={9B05C5D6-EB0E-4DC4-971F-BE09E5446703}&language=ENarticle.asp?ID={9B05C5D6-EB0E-4DC4-971F-BE09E5446703}&language=EN8/18/2008 9:41:10 AMHavana, Aug 18 (Prensa Latina) The 15th Latin American and Caribbean Brigade of Solidarity with Cuba condemned the nearly 50-year-old US economic, commercial and financial blockade of Cuba. article.asp?ID={89C59468-F304-4FA8-B2D3-03C0D3AA7A28}&language=ENarticle.asp?ID={89C59468-F304-4FA8-B2D3-03C0D3AA7A28}&language=EN8/18/2008 8:24:01 AMCaracas, Aug 18 (Prensa Latina) Venezuela said it is willing to improve ties with the United States if Washington calls off its forceful quest for hegemony in Latin America.article.asp?ID={927398AF-292D-42A7-81EE-CA5646D7A4F2}&language=ENarticle.asp?ID={927398AF-292D-42A7-81EE-CA5646D7A4F2}&language=EN8/16/2008 9:09:27 AMWashington, Aug 15 (Prensa Latina) A US small school district in Texas allowed teachers to enter the classrooms armed, starting the coming school year, the ABC News television station reported. article.asp?ID={754168A6-91DC-4C42-BC0D-4F360EF130C9}&language=ENarticle.asp?ID={754168A6-91DC-4C42-BC0D-4F360EF130C9}&language=EN8/15/2008 3:39:10 PMLondon, Aug 15 (Prensa Latina) US excess credit creation in the last decade, has been a policy failure of historic proportions, according to Byron W. King quoted by online news service Money Morning. article.asp?ID={6E183D19-25BC-4854-B678-0861AEC09CC9}&language=ENarticle.asp?ID={6E183D19-25BC-4854-B678-0861AEC09CC9}&language=EN8/15/2008 2:33:30 PMOttawa, Aug 15 (Prensa Latina) US citizen Jeremy Hinzman who fled to Canada to avoid military service in Iraq will appeal a deportation warrant from Canada’s Border Services Agency (CBSA).article.asp?ID={E08A7173-F0A8-4976-B174-21D60665E7E5}&language=ENarticle.asp?ID={E08A7173-F0A8-4976-B174-21D60665E7E5}&language=EN8/15/2008 2:17:09 PMVienna, Aug 15 (Prensa Latina) The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) reported today that world oil demand growth is estimated at 1.17 percent in 2008, instead of 1.20 previously expected.article.asp?ID={B7737437-AAD6-4B1E-B6E5-CEB04E28A111}&language=ENarticle.asp?ID={B7737437-AAD6-4B1E-B6E5-CEB04E28A111}&language=EN8/14/2008 5:16:23 PMWarsaw, Aug 14 (Prensa Latina) Poland and the US signed a preliminary agreement that makes Poland co-host of the US anti-missile shield in Europe.article.asp?ID={59D70DF7-D84B-47F3-840E-1B40BA116533}&language=ENarticle.asp?ID={59D70DF7-D84B-47F3-840E-1B40BA116533}&language=EN8/14/2008 4:15:05 PMWashington, Aug 14 (Prensa Latina) An increasing number of US teens gets, illegally, medicines that should be obtained under prescription, something considered in the threshold of consuming drugs like heroine, said a research revealed on Thursday. article.asp?ID={58B2DABC-BB38-43A7-A3F3-BCDD16B7A8CB}&language=ENarticle.asp?ID={58B2DABC-BB38-43A7-A3F3-BCDD16B7A8CB}&language=EN8/14/2008 4:08:14 PMLa Paz, Aug 14 (Prensa Latina) Rogelio Mayta, lawyer of the October 2003 Masacre victims' relatives, accused the United States on Thursday of hiding Bolivian ex President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada, who was held responsible for that action.article.asp?ID={00DA343C-F800-44C1-8846-EFA2E11F5A3C}&language=ENarticle.asp?ID={00DA343C-F800-44C1-8846-EFA2E11F5A3C}&language=EN8/14/2008 11:35:35 AMWashington, Aug 14 (Prensa Latina) US police are investigating the motives that led an individual to assassinate the chairman of the Democratic Party in Arkansas, William Gwantey, on Wednesday.article.asp?ID={71F7972E-AEBA-42F7-AF76-07E531794B64}&language=ENarticle.asp?ID={71F7972E-AEBA-42F7-AF76-07E531794B64}&language=EN8/14/2008 8:42:20 AMWashington, Aug 14 (Prensa Latina) US family consumption fell to its lowest level in five months, indicated official sources, which experts see as a new sign of economic weakness.article.asp?ID={DCA2FB77-AECC-4A9C-B444-0F40F4BE7071}&language=ENarticle.asp?ID={DCA2FB77-AECC-4A9C-B444-0F40F4BE7071}&language=EN8/13/2008 5:32:52 PMWashington, Aug 13 (Prensa Latina) Further breakthrough defines discovery of the protein that helps control and boost blood stem cell growth.article.asp?ID={B1C019AF-8EF4-4A4B-BCAF-8E6985AF685A}&language=ENarticle.asp?ID={B1C019AF-8EF4-4A4B-BCAF-8E6985AF685A}&language=EN8/13/2008 5:18:17 PMWashington, Aug 13 (Prensa Latina) Democrats may lose the most winnable election in American history, warned filmmaker Michael Moore today in the website carrying his name.article.asp?ID={927F9525-7E01-4411-B4E7-80FD8C66BCF6}&language=ENarticle.asp?ID={927F9525-7E01-4411-B4E7-80FD8C66BCF6}&language=EN8/13/2008 2:42:11 PMWashington, Aug 13 (Prensa Latina) The FBI probes never did housing repairs with Federal funds in New Orleans to reverse damages caused by hurricane Katrina.article.asp?ID={F58F4EB8-3BFF-4DDF-B5AE-1FFA1B05930E}&language=ENarticle.asp?ID={F58F4EB8-3BFF-4DDF-B5AE-1FFA1B05930E}&language=EN8/12/2008 4:41:27 PMTegucigalpa, Aug 12 (Prensa Latina) The Honduran government requested the US Tuesday to allow a new extension of the Temporary Protection Status to guarantee the continuance of more than 76,000 Honduran citizens who are living in the US illegally, said the Honduran Foreign Ministry.article.asp?ID={AFAE95E0-4DAB-487D-B59F-BF44C7042813}&language=ENarticle.asp?ID={AFAE95E0-4DAB-487D-B59F-BF44C7042813}&language=EN8/11/2008 2:51:46 PMLondon, Aug 11 (Prensa Latina) A coherent economic agenda offers not only higher growth but also social justice, says Nobel Prize Joseph Stiglitz in The Guardian UK on Monday.article.asp?ID={3DF711ED-A8BA-43ED-AA8D-88A42F048960}&language=ENarticle.asp?ID={3DF711ED-A8BA-43ED-AA8D-88A42F048960}&language=EN8/11/2008 2:05:31 PMWashington, Aug 11 (Prensa Latina) No scientific obituary has been published, but according to a recent report resumed by Mike Davis of alternative media Tomdispatch.com, humanity is entering the “Anthropocene”, epoch defined by the emergence of urban-industrial society as a geological force.