Stories for 2011

Monday, November 7th 2011 - 05:33 UTC
Panama expects Sarkozy to apologize for describing the country a “tax haven”

The Panamanian government “categorically” rejected Saturday French President Nicolas Sarkozy's “unfair” and “offensive” characterization of the country as a tax haven. “Panama is not a tax haven,” said Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli.
Monday, November 7th 2011 - 05:30 UTC
Polls indicate that Rajoy and the conservatives will win by a wide margin in Spain

Spain's centre-right People's Party will comfortably win parliamentary elections in two weeks time, 20 November, with an absolute majority, a private poll showed, as voters punish the Socialist government for the country's economic woes.
Monday, November 7th 2011 - 05:27 UTC
Former general who promises “strong hand” against crime leads in Guatemala election

A retired right-wing general promising to stamp out spiralling crime took an early lead in Guatemala's Sunday presidential election that he was favoured to win.
Monday, November 7th 2011 - 05:23 UTC
Colombian FARC rebels reject plea to demobilize after the killing of their leader

Colombia's FARC rebels rejected a plea to demobilize after the killing of their leader Alfonso Cano gave President Juan Manuel Santos his biggest military victory.
Monday, November 7th 2011 - 05:13 UTC
Uruguayan opposition accuses Argentina of having Sarkozy label the country a “tax haven”

Opposition leaders in Uruguay accused Argentina of “exerting pressure inside the G20 and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)” so the neighbouring country would be labelled a “tax haven,” the Montevideo media said.
Saturday, November 5th 2011 - 08:02 UTC
G20 agrees on an “action plan”, but details will have to wait

The G20, composed of the world's most powerful economies, come up Friday with an “action plan” to save the world economic and stabilize the global monetary system, according to an official statement from the Group of 20. The continuing Euro zone debt crisis has dominated the summit.
Saturday, November 5th 2011 - 07:58 UTC
Italy agrees to EC and IMF monitoring of budget reforms in support of the Euro

Italy has agreed to allow the European Commission and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to monitor its implementation of budgetary reforms that would cut state spending and raise revenue in a bid to prevent the sovereign debt crisis from spreading to the Euro zone’s third largest economy.
Saturday, November 5th 2011 - 07:55 UTC
Greek PM wins vote of confidence and calls for national unity government

Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou survived a vote of confidence in parliament on Friday evening, while indicating that he might be prepared to stand down. Results showed there were 153 votes in favor of Papandreou, with 145 against.
Saturday, November 5th 2011 - 07:51 UTC
Obama praises CFK and Argentina as “great friends of the US”

US President Barack Obama defined Cristina Fernández and Argentina “a great friend” of the United States in a meeting between both Head of States. The bilateral meeting Friday lasted around thirty minutes and took place in the Carlton Hotel in Cannes in the framework of the G20 summit.
Friday, November 4th 2011 - 16:09 UTC
Falkland Islands voters overwhelmingly reject single constituency proposal

Falkland Islands voters rejected the proposal of a single constituency, to eliminate the current two-system of Camp and the city Stanley, which was put to a referendum on Thursday November 3.