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Stories for April 9th 2015

  • Thursday, April 9th 2015 - 07:50 UTC

    Jeremy Clarkson is back on BBC as guest host of “Have I got news for you”

    Clarkson was suspended by the BBC on 10 March following a “fracas” with Top Gear producer Oisin Tymon in a hotel in North Yorkshire.

    Jeremy Clarkson is set to make his first appearance on the BBC since losing his job as co-presenter on Top Gear. The controversial broadcaster will appear as the guest host of 'Have I Got News for You' on 24 April. Clarkson became notorious in Argentina for his 'provocative' Top Gear program using cars with plates (H982 FKL) that made reference to the Falklands war of 1982 triggering strong reactions.

  • Thursday, April 9th 2015 - 07:01 UTC

    U.S. should back the Falkland Islanders’ Right of Self-Determination at the Summit of the Americas

    Like all of the other British Overseas Territories, the Falkland Islands have chosen not to be completely independent, but they are self-governing.

    By Luke Coffey and Nile Gardiner, Ph. D. (*)

    The Organization of American States (OAS) will hold the seventh Summit of the Americas in Panama City, Panama, on April 10–11, 2015. In the past, Canada has been alone in supporting the Falkland Islanders’ right of self-determination in the OAS.

  • Thursday, April 9th 2015 - 04:24 UTC

    Royal Dutch Shell buys BG Group for £47 Billion. Becomes main foreign oil producer in Brazil

    Ben van Beurden, CEO of Shell and Andrew Gould, Chairman of BG Group shake hands as Shell and BG their takeover deal at the London Stock Exchange

    Oil and gas company Shell has agreed to buy British rival BG Group for the equivalent of 70 billion dollars, making Europe's largest oil company the pre-eminent player in global natural gas and adding world-class fields in Brazil. The deal may signal a new wave of mega-mergers as the energy industry tries to adapt to lower prices.

  • Thursday, April 9th 2015 - 03:28 UTC

    Brazilian ruling coalition members sign letter pledging to support austerity package

    Rousseff's unruly coalition pledged in a letter to support her austerity package, a deal brokered by Vice President Michel Temer as the link between Executive and congress

    Brazilian congressional leaders within President Dilma Rousseff's coalition signed a joint letter on Wednesday pledging to support her austerity package, an unexpected sign that the ties with her unruly coalition are improving. The deal was brokered by Vice President Michel Temer on his first day as the official go-between tasked with mending Rousseff's tense relations with coalition lawmakers.

  • Thursday, April 9th 2015 - 02:45 UTC

    With the end of commodities prices 'super-cycle', UN panel lowers Latin American growth forecast to 1%

    Meanwhile, the end of the so-called “super-cycle” in commodity prices is affecting several countries in the region negatively.

    The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) has revised downward its economic growth projection for the region in 2015, forecasting a 1.0% increase in the regional Gross Domestic Product (GDP), the United Nations organization said today in a press release.

  • Thursday, April 9th 2015 - 01:35 UTC

    Brazil inflation soars as electricity rates go up 22% in March and 60.42% in the last 12 months

    Housing costs rose 5.29% in March from February alone, pushed up by a 22% increase in electricity rates because of a severe drought affecting hydroelectric production

    Consumer prices in Brazil picked up in March, putting the 12-month rate at the highest level in more than eleven years, highlighting one of the main challenges facing Latin America's largest economy in the year ahead. The rolling 12-month IPCA was up 8.13% through March, up from 7.70% in February, remaining well above the central bank's 6.5% ceiling. In the first quarter of the year, prices have risen 3.83%, while the 12-month figure marked the highest level since December 2003, when it reached 9.30%.

  • Thursday, April 9th 2015 - 00:54 UTC

    Pope Francis will meet President Cristina Fernández for the fifth time, next June

    “The new meeting between the president and the Pope reaffirms the continuity of their cordial relations,” Argentine Cult Secretary Guillermo Olivieri said.

    Pope Francis and Argentine president Cristina Fernández will meet for the fifth time at the Vatican in June, according to government sources. The head of state will visit the pontiff between June 7 and 9, two months before the PASO primaries and ahead of national elections that are to be held in October. It will be their fifth meeting since Francis was elected and the first one under the administration of Eduardo Valdés, the Argentine Ambassador to the Vatican, appointed in December.