MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for November 14th 2015
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Saturday, November 14th 2015 - 12:48 UTC
Argentine analyst says 8% decide their vote on Election Day
There is an 8% of voters who decide on ballot day whom they prefer and will support, and “they definitively decide the election, even more when it's a runoff”, according to Jorge Giacobbe an Argentine political pollster and analyst.
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Saturday, November 14th 2015 - 12:29 UTC
The economy and the role of the state expected to be center piece of Argentina's Sunday presidential debate
Sunday's presidential debate in Argentina will most probably concentrate on economic policy mainly for two reasons: one that the current system with a dollar clamp, export duties, heavy influence of the government and wild spending has the economy on the verge of collapse; but the option of orthodox policies with drastic cuts in spending, salaries and possibly jobs and consumption is also seen as fearsome.
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Saturday, November 14th 2015 - 12:02 UTC
World Diabetes Day, 14 November; 350 million people suffer the chronic disease
The World Health Organization is marking World Diabetes Day on 14th November calling for greater action to turn the growing tide of the global diabetes epidemic and has announced that World Health Day, on 7 April will focus on the issue of diabetes.
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Saturday, November 14th 2015 - 11:52 UTC
Argentina needs confidence and positive expectations to attract investment and develop
Any country, any economy needs confidence and positive expectations, and that is what is lacking, and has been lacking in Argentina for many years, said Jorge Brito, head of the Association of Argentine banks, who nevertheless warned about the impacts of a 'rough' adjustment on the economy.
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Saturday, November 14th 2015 - 11:37 UTC
A Dominican connection in Venezuela's First Lady relatives drugs' case
A drugs raid and bust in a yacht moored at a marina in the Dominican Republic is helping to understand the extent of the trafficking network business surrounding Venezuela's First Lady family connections, whose nephew and godson are under arrest in New York, according to media reports in Caracas.
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Saturday, November 14th 2015 - 11:07 UTC
Venezuela's First Lady nephews unveil drug trafficking before New York court
Two nephews of Venezuela's powerful first lady were ordered held without bail in New York on Thursday after being arrested in Haiti on charges of conspiring to smuggle 800 kilograms of cocaine into the U.S.
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Saturday, November 14th 2015 - 09:28 UTC
Night of gun and bombs attacks in Paris: at least 150 people killed
France has declared a national state of emergency and tightened borders after at least 150 people were killed in a night of gun and bomb attacks in Paris. Eighty people were reported killed after gunmen burst into the Bataclan concert hall and took dozens hostage. The siege ended when security forces stormed the building.
