MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for April 16th 2015
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Thursday, April 16th 2015 - 08:07 UTC
Petrobras corruption probe encroaching President Rousseff; party's treasurer arrested
A widening investigation into alleged corruption at Brazil’s state-controlled oil giant Petrobras took a step closer to President Dilma Rousseff on Wednesday when police arrested the ruling party’s treasurer, João Vaccari Neto, who has been charged with receiving “irregular donations” for the Workers’ Party, or PT, from some of the oil company’s suppliers.
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Thursday, April 16th 2015 - 02:22 UTC
Falklands people's “democratic rights” will be upheld, pledges Tories' manifesto
With less than a month to UK's election the Conservative party released its manifesto which explicitly declares that a Tory government “will uphold the democratic rights of the people of Gibraltar and the Falkland Islands to remain British, for as long as that is their wish, and protect our Overseas Territories”.
