Monday, January 21, 2008

Daily Headlines: January 21, 2008

* Recent poll results indicated that half of Argentines are satisfied with recently inaugurated President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.

* Seventeen films from Latin America are being screened at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.

* Colombia’s second-largest guerilla faction released nine hostages according to local officials.

* Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Michael Mullen traveled to an Iraqi military base to thank soldiers from El Salvador.

* Honduran officials uncovered “three Kalashnikov assault rifles, an Uzi…30 large televisions, (and) five refrigerators” as contraband in a prison cellblock.

Sources- Angus Reid Global Consultants, Xinhua, Voice of America, New York Times, AFP

Image- ABC Online

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