Stories for September 2014

Tuesday, September 16th 2014 - 05:10 UTC
Blatter has a challenger for next year's FIFA president election: Champagne

Former FIFA official Jerome Champagne has formally announced that he will stand against incumbent Sepp Blatter in next year's election for president of the world soccer body.
Tuesday, September 16th 2014 - 05:04 UTC
White House says it prefers the UK to remain “strong, robust and united”

The White House weighed in carefully on the Scottish independence referendum, saying Washington would respect the outcome of the vote but would prefer the United Kingdom to remain “strong, robust and united.”
Tuesday, September 16th 2014 - 03:03 UTC
Leading Scottish business group calls for unity the day after the referendum

A leading Scottish business group has called for the country to unite “to drive Scotland forward”, whatever the result of the independence referendum. The Scottish Chambers of Commerce said the outcome would leave “a substantial number” of people disappointed.
Tuesday, September 16th 2014 - 02:54 UTC
Gibraltar on National Day celebration calls on QE II to again visit the Rock

Sixty years after her last visit the Chief Minister has called on Queen Elizabeth II to visit Gibraltar. He did so in a dramatic call during his National day speech. Fabian Picardo was flanked on stage by Gibraltar Government Ministers, Opposition MPs and a contingent of visiting British MPs and MEPs.
Tuesday, September 16th 2014 - 02:42 UTC
US insists with Argentina it does not support the UN sovereign debt debate

As Argentine President Cristina Fernandez readies for her annual trip to New York to speak at the United Nations General Assembly, US interim ambassador in Buenos Aires Kevin Sullivan ratified that Washington will not back the UN sovereign debt resolution sparked by Argentina’s legal battle with its holdout creditors.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.