MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for May 21st 2015
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Thursday, May 21st 2015 - 07:27 UTC
Uruguay and Brazil summit to consider a more flexible Mercosur
Uruguayan president Tabare Vazquez will be meeting his peer, Dilma Rousseff in Brasilia this Thursday to address a dense bilateral agenda, and more specifically the workings and future of Mercosur, in search for a more flexible group, open to agreements with third parties.
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Thursday, May 21st 2015 - 07:08 UTC
Five world leading banks fined 5.7bn dollars for manipulating foreign exchange markets
Five of the world's largest banks are to pay fines totaling $5.7bn for charges including manipulating the foreign exchange market. Four of the banks - JPMorgan, Barclays, Citigroup and RBS - have agreed to plead guilty to US criminal charges, while the fifth, UBS from Switzerland will plead guilty to rigging benchmark interest rates.
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Thursday, May 21st 2015 - 06:56 UTC
Iranian officers' interviews, allegedly linked to AMIA bombing, attract world media attention
The interviews with former Iranian officials accused of the 1994 AMIA bombing of a Jewish organization in downtown Buenos Aires aired this week by Argentine news channel C5N were covered by a number of international media outlets.
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Thursday, May 21st 2015 - 06:45 UTC
Venezuelan government targets opposition leader Capriles for making “false allegations”
Barely one week after Venezuela’s President of the National Assembly of Venezuela Diosdado Cabello filed a defamation suit against 22 media executives and editors for publishing reports linking him to an international drug-trafficking, another high-level minister announced they would be filing suit against opposition leader Henrique Capriles for making “false allegations.”
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Thursday, May 21st 2015 - 06:40 UTC
Pope Francis prays for Argentina on the country's National Day
Pope Francis has sent a letter to President Cristina Fernández to mark festivities for May week, during which Argentina commemorates the formation of the First Patriotic Government on 25 May 1810.
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Thursday, May 21st 2015 - 06:26 UTC
Cristina Fernandez launches May Revolution week with strong messages
President Cristina Fernández led on Wednesday a rally in the Buenos Aires City central railway station of Retiro where she praised the renovation of Argentina's railway system in an event that was part of the official celebrations marking a new anniversary of the May Revolution, which in 1810 was the beginning of the country's road to independence.
