MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for November 21st 2013
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Thursday, November 21st 2013 - 07:06 UTC
A first speech full of messages to reaffirm policies and calling on the opposition
“God, how much I missed you”, were the first words from Argentine president Cristina Fernandez to her supporters, mostly young, who congregated on Wednesday late evening in the several patios of Casa Rosada to welcome her first live appearance since the 45-day long medical leave.
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Thursday, November 21st 2013 - 07:02 UTC
US 'budget-debt ceiling' political clashes threaten slower world growth, warns OECD
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, OECD, cut its forecast for global economic growth through next year and warned that fiscal and monetary policy decisions looming in the U.S. could derail the recovery. OECD said world economic output would expand 2.7% this year and 3.6% in 2014, down from May's forecast of 3.1% and 4%.
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Thursday, November 21st 2013 - 06:56 UTC
Cristina Fernandez for the first time live since surgery, takes the oath of new ministers
In an emotional but brief (eleven minutes) ceremony Argentine President Cristina Fernandez, on Wednesday late evening, was back on stage at the Casa Rosada, the first time since she underwent cranium surgery six weeks ago, for the oath-taking ceremony of three new top officials who will be decisive ministers in the last two years of her second mandate.
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Thursday, November 21st 2013 - 06:52 UTC
Spain says strict controls at Gibraltar border will remain: “a fight against illegal items and contraband”
Spain’s Minister for European Affairs Iñigo Méndez de Vigo has said Madrid will maintain strict controls at the border. Speaking with the media in Brussels the minister said that the European Commission had endorsed the action it has being taking as in line with EU norms.
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Thursday, November 21st 2013 - 06:35 UTC
Pro-Malvinas militant groups told by winch workers to keep out of the port of Buenos Aires
Pickets organized by the Argentine fundamentalist group Quebracho to protest the docking in the port of Buenos Aires of the Bahamas flagged cruise “Seabourn Quest” which includes the Falkland Islands in its route were displaced by the union of winch operators in conflict over pay, work conditions and official registry of their grouping.
