Stories for 2014

Monday, October 6th 2014 - 07:33 UTC
Italian holdouts, following on Paul Singer, present demand against Argentina

Italian bondholders filed a complaint order to United States District Judge Thomas Griesa asking to be given the same benefits as Aurelius Management and NML Management, the “holdouts” that were authorized by Griesa to be paid the full debt Argentina has with them.
Monday, October 6th 2014 - 07:19 UTC
Falklands' offshore Scotia well not viable: Noble Energy will take 75m write down

Houston-based Noble Energy will take a 75 million write down for exploration costs after determining that its offshore Scotia well in the Falkland Islands is not commercially viable. The well was drilled in 2012 using 2D seismic interpretation but was deemed non-commercial following analysis of 3D seismic data.
Monday, October 6th 2014 - 07:07 UTC
EU and US advance in trade talks but high barriers remain

Officials from the United States and the European Union say they have made progress as they seek to sweep away trade barriers. Teams from the two sides have held a week of discussions in Chevy Chase, Maryland. If successful an agreement would create the world's biggest free trade zone.
Monday, October 6th 2014 - 06:48 UTC
Spanish fighter jets enter Gibraltar air space in “reckless and dangerous” stunt

Spanish fighter jets illegally entered UK airspace to fly “across the bows” of a British airliner in a “reckless and dangerous” stunt over Gibraltar, according to a report in the Sunday Express.
Monday, October 6th 2014 - 06:44 UTC
Uruguay forced to lower public utility rates to keep inflation below 10%

Uruguay's inflation indicator dropped to 8.36% in September from 8.75% in August, according to the latest report from the country's stats office INE. During September consumer prices increased a full 1%, and 8,04% in the first nine months of the year. However despite the high percentage it is below the same period a year ago: 8.41%.
Monday, October 6th 2014 - 06:34 UTC
BBC2 To Gear claims “they threw us out of Argentina for the political capital”

BBC2’s Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson has said his crew did nothing wrong and affirmed “someone could have been killed”, following incidents in which a group of people in Tierra del Fuego threw stones at their cars, thinking the license plates they used for filming were directly alluding to the Falklands/Malvinas War.
Monday, October 6th 2014 - 06:21 UTC
Conference on Hudson, “An Argentine writer that wrote in English”

Argentine ambassador to the UK Alicia Castro and Argentina's National Library head Horacio Gonzalez took part in a conference held at the British Library last Friday in London to promote “cultural cooperation and dialogue” between the two countries.
Monday, October 6th 2014 - 06:00 UTC
World Cup '94 striker Romario elected Senator in Brazil

Brazilian striker-turned-politician Romario was elected on Sunday to the senate with 63.4% of the vote for the Rio de Janeiro seat. The 48-year-old former soccer star -- a 1994 World Champion and Socialist Party candidate -- finished well ahead of Democratic Party rival Cesar Maia, who had received 20.5% with 90% of votes counted.
Monday, October 6th 2014 - 05:56 UTC
Dilma (40%) and Neves (34%) to the runoff; mathematically the opposition can win

Brazil's unpredictable election took another twist Sunday, with populist President Dilma Rousseff forced into a runoff race as expected, but against a center-right challenger who only surged in the final week of the campaign.
Sunday, October 5th 2014 - 10:05 UTC
Huge gathering or Pacific walruses in Alaska beach because of climate change

Scientists have photographed the largest gathering of Pacific walruses ever recorded, on a beach in northern Alaska, blaming climate change for the estimated 35,000 females and calves huddled beside the Chukchi Sea.