MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for January 20th 2018
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Saturday, January 20th 2018 - 10:48 UTC
Bipartisan efforts failed: US Government shutdown
For first time since 2013, the US government is in shutdown after senators rejected a temporary spending patch. Trump accuses Democrats of taking Americans hostage with their demands.
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Saturday, January 20th 2018 - 09:33 UTC
Francis blasts corruption, calls for greater transparency in public entities, private sector, and... the Church
Pope Francis made a forceful call to combat corruption in Peru, calling it a social “virus” a month after the Andean nation’s president pardoned a former autocratic leader who had been jailed for graft and human rights abuses.
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Saturday, January 20th 2018 - 09:26 UTC
Argentina drastically slashes docking services to lower exports' costs
Argentina has set a maximum rate paid for port docking and undocking services, the government said in its official gazette, a change the Transportation Ministry said would slash docking costs by up to 40%. The move comes as President Mauricio Macri seeks to lower the cost of exporting food from the world’s No. 3 soy and corn exporter and the leading shipper of soybean livestock feed.
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Saturday, January 20th 2018 - 09:21 UTC
Argentina posted a primary fiscal deficit of 3.9% of GDP during 2017
Argentina posted a primary fiscal deficit worth 3.9% of GDP in 2017, below its 4.2% goal and the 4.6% figure posted in 2016, Treasury Minister Nicolas Dujovne told reporters. He said the government’s 2018 target for a primary fiscal deficit remained at 3.2% of GDP, with targets of deficits worth 0.6% in the first quarter, 1.6% in the second quarter and 2.2% in the third quarter.
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Saturday, January 20th 2018 - 09:15 UTC
Argentina's GDP expanded 2.9% in 2017, bouncing from a 2.2% retraction in 2016
Argentina’s gross domestic product (GDP) expanded by 2.9% in 2017, and grew 0.7% in the fourth quarter from the third quarter, a Treasury Ministry source said on Friday, bouncing back from a 2.2% contraction the prior year.
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Saturday, January 20th 2018 - 08:16 UTC
Francis strongly sides with indigenous peoples and calls the Amazon, God's “holy ground”
From deep in the Amazon rainforest, Pope Francis demanded on Friday that corporations stop their relentless extraction of timber, gas and gold from God's “holy ground,” and called on governments to recognize the indigenous peoples living there as the primary forces in determining its future.
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Saturday, January 20th 2018 - 07:19 UTC
Falklands expecting arrival of the all-woman Indian Navy team in INSV Tarini
The all-woman Indian Navy team sailing in the INSV Tarini in one of the toughest feats, a global circumnavigation trip has successfully crossed the notoriously rough Drake Passage, rounding Cape Horn off the southern tip of South America and are en route to Stanley in the Falkland Islands, where they will be arriving any moment.
