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Stories for December 31st 2015
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Thursday, December 31st 2015 - 08:35 UTC
Spain's Socialists rules out any partner that supports Catalonia independence referendum
Spain's Socialist party ruled out forming a new government with any party that supported a referendum on independence in Catalonia, a stand that prolongs political uncertainty after this month's inconclusive national election.
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Thursday, December 31st 2015 - 08:22 UTC
Switzerland hands bank documents from FIFA corruption to US prosecutors
Swiss authorities have handed over the first round of bank documents seized in their FIFA corruption investigation to U.S. prosecutors on Wednesday. The Federal Office of Justice in Switzerland says the documents relate to “bank accounts allegedly used for bribes connected with the grant of marketing rights to soccer tournaments in Latin America and the USA.”
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Thursday, December 31st 2015 - 08:09 UTC
Chile's ENAP moves into power generation in association with Japan's Mitsui
Chilean state oil company ENAP announced the signing of an agreement with Japan's Mitsui & Co. for the development of two power generation projects with combined installed capacity of nearly 1,300 MW.
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Thursday, December 31st 2015 - 07:50 UTC
Holdouts subpoena HSBC on Argentina's efforts to raise money abroad
Creditors suing Argentina over billions of dollars in defaulted bonds have subpoenaed HSBC Holdings Plc for information about the country's effort to raise money abroad, a person familiar with the matter said on Tuesday, as reported by Reuters.
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Thursday, December 31st 2015 - 07:43 UTC
Global economic growth in 2016, “disappointing and patchy” forecasts Lagarde
Global economic growth will be “disappointing and patchy” in 2016, the head of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, wrote in an article published in the German business daily Handelsblatt on Wednesday.
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Thursday, December 31st 2015 - 07:31 UTC
Chile's Bachelet waiting for the year to end: 2015 has been the worst in her political history
It has been a bad year, Chilean President Michelle Bachelet told a Santiago newspaper this week, admitting that corruption scandals have sapped confidence in the country's institutions while sparking a reform drive that should bear fruit going forward.
