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Montevideo, May 21st 2024 - 18:11 UTC

Politics

  • Tuesday, March 31st 2015 - 09:24 UTC

    UK electoral campaign takes off; no party expected to win a clear majority

    Cameron said a Labor victory would bring “economic chaos” and threaten Britain's recovery. “Debt will rise and jobs will be lost as a result”

    British Prime Minister David Cameron paid a courtesy call on Queen Elizabeth II, then launched a most non courteous attack on his main political rival as campaigning formally began Monday in the most unpredictable U.K. election in decades.

  • Tuesday, March 31st 2015 - 08:52 UTC

    Falklands' defense: Argentina formalizes complaint to UN and regional groups

    UK alleges a preposterous 'live threat' from Argentina with the sole purpose of trying to justify a military presence in the Falklands, said Timerman

    Argentina dispatched on Monday complaint letters to several international and regional organizations accusing the United Kingdom of further militarizing the Falklands/Malvinas, with an increased budget, alleging Argentina represents a 'live threat' to the Islanders in the British Overseas Territory and thus ignoring tens of resolutions calling for dialogue between the two sides on the Falklands issue.

  • Tuesday, March 31st 2015 - 08:41 UTC

    Falklands' clearance of Argentine mines planned to restart in mid-September

    “This latest phase is the fourth and largest, and is scheduled to take place over the next two years”, said Marot head of the demining program in Falklands

    The Falkland Islands program to clear mines planted by the invading Argentine forces in 1982, is scheduled to take a break at the end of April, following a very successful task all along summer according to Guy Marot, Program Manager for the Falkland Islands Demining Program Office, as reported in the FIG's edition of February.

  • Tuesday, March 31st 2015 - 06:11 UTC

    Maximo Kirchner rejects accusations; blames international media campaign

    “All that has been published in the press is false, ridiculous and could have been expected, since they are planned lies”, said Maximo

    Maximo Kirchner, son of Argentine president Cristina Fernandez has strongly denied as “false and ridiculous” news published in Buenos Aires daily Clarin and Brazil's magazine Veja alleging he had secret accounts in the US and Cayman Islands holding millions of dollar.

  • Tuesday, March 31st 2015 - 05:49 UTC

    Maximo Kirchner accused of having secret accounts in the US and Cayman Islands

    The Argentine president's son and former minister Nilda Garre are mentioned in pieces published in Clarin and Brazil's Veja

    Maximo Kirchner, son of Argentine president Cristina Fernandez and former Defense and Security Minister Nilda Garre figure with secret bank accounts, stashed with millions of dollars, in the United States and in the Cayman Islands, according to reports in Buenos Aires daily Clarin and Brazil's Veja, the weekly magazine with the largest circulation in that country.

  • Tuesday, March 31st 2015 - 05:44 UTC

    Unions bring Argentina to a halt over income tax and promise more industrial action

    Pablo Moyano’s truckers and about 20 other unions will walk off the job Tuesday, bringing to a halt banks, public transport, garbage collection, schools

    Argentine Labor unions will carry out more strikes after a 24-hour walkout Tuesday, if the government doesn’t heed their demand for less tax pressure, a union leader said on Monday.“The measures of force are going to increase if (the government) continues with the provocations and without giving us a response to our demands,” trucker union boss Pablo Moyano said to a local radio station.

  • Monday, March 30th 2015 - 06:47 UTC

    Citibank suspended in Argentina “until it revokes agreement with Griesa and holdout funds”

    The “precautionary suspension” was ordered as CNV considered that the bank “did not act according to Argentine banking law” said Kicillof

    Economy Minister Axel Kicillof said the suspension of Citibank Argentina, ordered by the National Securities Commission (CNV) financial watchdog, will stay in place until the bank revokes its agreement not to appeal US Judge Thomas Griesa’s ruling that interest payments on Argentina's restructured local law bonds could not be processed if the bank was allowed to make two one-off payments to help it exit its local custody business.

  • Monday, March 30th 2015 - 06:32 UTC

    French local elections confirm come back of Sarkozy and containment of Marie Le Pen

    ”The French people have massively rejected the policies of (President) Francois Hollande and his government,” he told party supporters.

    The far-right National Front (FN) made only limited gains in French local elections won by ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy's conservatives. The anti-immigrant, anti-EU party is likely to have won up to 108 local council seats, from holding only one currently. But they will have too few in any one of the 102 “departements” to control any of them, updated Sunday exit polls showed.

  • Monday, March 30th 2015 - 06:20 UTC

    Cruise lines are preparing for the Cuban rush of US tourists

    European and Canadian-owned cruise lines often make stops in Havana. Tourism is already a major part of the Cuban economy

    Although U.S. tourists are still technically banned from visiting the Caribbean country, one of the world's last remaining authoritarian regimes, the process of normalizing relations between the U.S. and Cuba has the cruise industry ready to pounce, according to Maritime Link.

  • Sunday, March 29th 2015 - 09:47 UTC

    Sea Shepherd receives unexpected help in the 100-day chase of poacher

    For the past 100 days Sea Shepherd's flagship the Bob Barker has been chasing a poacher caught taking Patagonian toothfish from Australian territorial waters (Pic FB)

    One of Australia's biggest commercial fishing businesses has joined forces with militant environment group Sea Shepherd in an unheralded bid to stop pirate fishing boats. David Carter, from Perth-based Austral Fisheries, said the company was joining forces with Sea Shepherd because it wanted to lend moral support to the group's efforts to stamp out poaching.