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Montevideo, May 6th 2024 - 07:18 UTC

International

  • Friday, April 10th 2015 - 07:14 UTC

    Cuba and US hold historic meeting at highest level in Panama

    Few details have emerged from the meeting between Kerry and Rodriguez. The last comparable event was in 1959, between Fidel Castro and Richard Nixon.

    US Secretary of State John Kerry and Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez have held talks, in the highest level meeting between the two countries in more than half a century. The two were involved in closed-door discussions after arriving in Panama for a summit.

  • Friday, April 10th 2015 - 07:12 UTC

    Jeremy Clarkson pulls out as guest host in the “Have I Got News For You” show

    The popular show man, sacked from Top Gear, was scheduled to appear on the new program April 24

    Jeremy Clarkson has pulled out of his planned appearance as guest host of the BBC show Have I Got News For You. He had been due to appear on 24 April in his first BBC appearance since being dropped as a co-presenter of Top Gear, following an attacked on a producer.

  • Friday, April 10th 2015 - 05:24 UTC

    Rousseff declares Petrobras 'clean' after purging corrupt managers and practices

    ”Petrobras is still standing. It has cleaned up what it had to clean up and got rid of those who took advantage of their positions to enrich themselves,'' Rousseff said

    Brazil's State-run oil company Petrobras has purged corrupt managers and put a graft scandal behind it, while hitting record output levels from offshore deposits, President Dilma Rousseff said Thursday. The indictment of former senior executives of Petrobras the investigation of dozens of political allies of Rousseff in the multibillion-dollar kickback scandal has thrown her government into crisis and undermined investor confidence in Brazil.

  • Friday, April 10th 2015 - 03:09 UTC

    “UK has no doubt about sovereignty over the Falklands and Islanders right to decide their future”

    “We object strongly to recent statements by the Argentine president and the Argentine ambassador to London, and so summoned the ambassador to account for these”

    The UK Foreign Office summoned Argentine Ambassador Alicia Castro to object recent remarks regarding the Falkland Islands by President Cristina Fernandez and the diplomat based in London. An FCO spokesperson said that Britain has no doubt about its sovereignty over the Falkland Islands and surrounding maritime areas, nor about the Falkland Islanders' right to decide their own future.

  • Friday, April 10th 2015 - 03:03 UTC

    Argentina ordered to pay 405m dollars to nationalized Suez water works

    The French group released a short statement indicating it accepted the judgment and expressing its hope that Argentina complies with the compensation order.

    The World Bank's International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) has ordered Argentina to pay 405 million dollars to French company Suez, who saw their contract for water and drainage provision cancelled in 2006. The service had been privatized in the nineties during the presidency of Carlos Menem.

  • Friday, April 10th 2015 - 00:44 UTC

    Cristina Fernandez will visit his close new friend Putin on April 22/23

    Putin made an official visit to the Buenos Aires in July 2014, during which time the two countries signed energy and cooperation deals

    Argentine President Cristina Fernández will be heading to Moscow in just under two weeks upon invitation from Russian President Vladimir Putin to mark 130 years of diplomatic relations between the two countries. The announcement of the president’s 22/23 April visit to Russia came amid news that she would also visit Pope Francis in the Vatican on June 7.

  • Friday, April 10th 2015 - 00:25 UTC

    Five Falklands' oil companies accused of violating Argentine law and UN resolutions

    CFK accused the companies of “carrying out hydrocarbon exploration activities on Argentina's continental shelf without obtaining the corresponding authorization”

    Argentina's government on Thursday formally accused five oil companies of conducting illegal exploration work off the British-ruled Falkland Islands, which Buenos Aires claims as its own. The companies are Britain's Rockhopper Exploration plc, Premier Oil plc and Falkland Oil and Gas Ltd; Houston-based Noble Energy Inc.; and Italy's Edison International SpA, Argentina's Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

  • Thursday, April 9th 2015 - 07:50 UTC

    Jeremy Clarkson is back on BBC as guest host of “Have I got news for you”

    Clarkson was suspended by the BBC on 10 March following a “fracas” with Top Gear producer Oisin Tymon in a hotel in North Yorkshire.

    Jeremy Clarkson is set to make his first appearance on the BBC since losing his job as co-presenter on Top Gear. The controversial broadcaster will appear as the guest host of 'Have I Got News for You' on 24 April. Clarkson became notorious in Argentina for his 'provocative' Top Gear program using cars with plates (H982 FKL) that made reference to the Falklands war of 1982 triggering strong reactions.

  • Thursday, April 9th 2015 - 04:24 UTC

    Royal Dutch Shell buys BG Group for £47 Billion. Becomes main foreign oil producer in Brazil

    Ben van Beurden, CEO of Shell and Andrew Gould, Chairman of BG Group shake hands as Shell and BG their takeover deal at the London Stock Exchange

    Oil and gas company Shell has agreed to buy British rival BG Group for the equivalent of 70 billion dollars, making Europe's largest oil company the pre-eminent player in global natural gas and adding world-class fields in Brazil. The deal may signal a new wave of mega-mergers as the energy industry tries to adapt to lower prices.

  • Thursday, April 9th 2015 - 03:28 UTC

    Brazilian ruling coalition members sign letter pledging to support austerity package

    Rousseff's unruly coalition pledged in a letter to support her austerity package, a deal brokered by Vice President Michel Temer as the link between Executive and congress

    Brazilian congressional leaders within President Dilma Rousseff's coalition signed a joint letter on Wednesday pledging to support her austerity package, an unexpected sign that the ties with her unruly coalition are improving. The deal was brokered by Vice President Michel Temer on his first day as the official go-between tasked with mending Rousseff's tense relations with coalition lawmakers.