Argentine President Cristina Fernández is “improving favourably” and “controls were satisfactory” according to Thursday’s daily medical report on the patient who last Tuesday underwent surgery to have a subdural haematoma removed at the Fundacion Favaloro Institute in Buenos Aires.
Gunmen this week seized Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan from a hotel in central Tripoli, releasing him shortly afterwards, but making it clear that post-Gaddafi Libya is a failed state and that the government is incapable of taking full control over its oilfields and export terminals
Canadian Alice Munro won the Nobel Prize in Literature for her tales of the struggles, loves and tragedies of women in small-town Canada that made her what the award-giving committee called the master of the contemporary short story.
Argentina will offer 500 million dollars in sovereign bonds to resolve disputes with corporations at a World Bank arbitration panel, a financial daily newspaper reported on Thursday.
Argentina will grow at an enviable rate compared to other countries in the region, Chief Economist for the World Bank’s Latin America and Caribbean Office Augusto de la Torre said this week, commenting on the institution’s projections for next year.
The Argentine government and the World Bank agreed on Thursday in Washington on a new Strategic Partnership involving an estimated 3 billion dollars in the next three years which will concentrate on loans for education, health care and rural development.
Argentine Cabinet Chief Juan Manuel Abal Medina guaranteed there will be no political or institutional crisis due to President Cristina Fernández health condition and underlined that ‘the president’s team is solid and working with no difficulty”, following her instructions.
Pope Francis has wished President Cristina Fernández a “full health recovery” following the surgery she underwent on Monday at the Fundación Favaloro clinic in Buenos Aires. “I beg you to feel my presence. I guarantee my nearness and prayer,” the ex Argentine cardinal said.
Venezuela and Paraguay need to re-establish full relations and overcome “all the obstacles that need to be overcome”, said Foreign minister Elías Jaua currently in Asunción, a special guest of his counterpart Eladio Loizaga.
The Royal Navy's former ice patrol ship HMS Endurance is to be scrapped after the Ministry of Defense decided the cost of repairing the vessel, which flooded off the coast of Chile in 2008, was too great.