MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for September 15th 2014
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Monday, September 15th 2014 - 06:23 UTC
Argentina confirms payment to bondholders at the end of September
Argentina will pay holders of its restructured sovereign debt, thanks to a bill passed by its Congress last week despite a US court ruling, the country's economy minister told a local radio show on Sunday.
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Monday, September 15th 2014 - 05:11 UTC
Gas prices must increase to sustain strong investment levels, says YPF Galuccio
Argentina's YPF oil and gas state corporation CEO Miguel Galuccio pointed out that the increase in gas prices is needed in order to sustain “strong investment levels” for the company and revealed that the cost of drilling a well in the country's massive oil field in Vaca Muerta has fallen below 7 million dollars.
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Monday, September 15th 2014 - 05:07 UTC
Free fall for Cristina Fernandez with record negative image and support
The negative image of Argentine president Cristina Fernandez climbed this month to 43.8%, the highest since last May, according to the latest release of the Management & Fit public opinion polls, published in the Buenos Aires media.
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Monday, September 15th 2014 - 04:18 UTC
The movements the Scotland independence vote has arousen in Europe
In Europe's eastern half, the disintegration of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia created many new countries. In Western Europe, however, borders of the old nation states seemed to be carved in stone and although there have been secessionist tendencies, some of them militant, they never seemed to have a shot in reality, according to a Deutsche Welle report from Berlin.
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Monday, September 15th 2014 - 04:12 UTC
“I hope people will think very carefully about the future”, QE II tells Scotland
Queen Elizabeth II has broken her silence over the Scottish independence vote, saying she hopes Scots will “think very carefully” about the future when voting in a referendum that could break up the United Kingdom.
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Monday, September 15th 2014 - 04:07 UTC
Spanish Judge Garzon praises Argentina's sovereign payment bill and UN resolution
Former Spanish Judge and Human Rights activist Baltasar Garzon praised the Sovereign Payment law approved by Argentina’s Congress last week and described the United Nation’s resolution for the creation of a multilateral legal framework for sovereign debt restructuring process as “essential.”
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Monday, September 15th 2014 - 04:00 UTC
PM Cameron promises to hunt down IS murderers of British hostage
Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron chaired a meeting of the government's emergency response committee on Sunday under growing pressure to sanction air strikes after an Islamic State video showed the beheading of a British hostage.
