MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for April 21st 2017
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Friday, April 21st 2017 - 10:34 UTC
French first round presidential election on Sunday has no clear winner
French centrist Emmanuel Macron is set to come out on top in the first round of France's presidential election on Sunday as far right leader Marine Le Pen fell further behind him in an Elabe poll published on Friday. However, neither is totally assured a spot in the May 7 runoff round as both conservative Francois Fillon and hard-left candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon were seen narrowing Macron and Le Pen's lead over them.
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Friday, April 21st 2017 - 10:18 UTC
EU/Mercosur accord is expected to be announced at WTO assembly in Argentina next December
An optimistic foreign minister Susana Malcorra said that Argentina expects the Mercosur/European Union trade agreement to be announced next December during the World Trade Organization meeting to be held in Buenos Aires, and which she described as an event of great political impact.
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Friday, April 21st 2017 - 10:08 UTC
Trump administration plans to release major tax reform plan “very soon”
United States Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Thursday the Trump administration plans to release a “major tax reform” plan “very soon”. While the secretary has more recently backed away from meeting his own August deadline, Mnuchin's comments on Thursday reinforced his own commitment to finalize an overhaul of U.S. tax policy in 2017.
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Friday, April 21st 2017 - 10:00 UTC
Venezuela donated US$ 500.000 to the inauguration of President Donald Trump
Venezuela has donated US$500,000 to US President Donald Trump's inauguration, newly released records show. Citgo Petroleum, a US-based subsidiary of the Venezuelan state-owned oil company, is named in papers filed with the Federal Election Commission.
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Friday, April 21st 2017 - 09:56 UTC
Chile's presidential election will confront social-democratic reforms and a free markets' approach
A leftist senator running for president in Chile's November election is tied in a head-to-head match-up with the conservative frontrunner, even as his support has slipped in recent months, a poll released on Thursday showed.
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Friday, April 21st 2017 - 09:32 UTC
Venezuela opposition announced three more days of protests
Venezuela's opposition renewed nationwide protests on Thursday to pressure President Nicolas Maduro to hold elections and improve a collapsing economy, and vowed to keep up pressure by staging three more protests in the next four days.
