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Montevideo, July 5th 2025 - 23:43 UTC

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  • Wednesday, April 13th 2016 - 05:32 UTC

    Falklands launch collection of crown coins to honor the Queen's 90th birthday

    Falklands' One Crown. The reverse depicts the Queen’s official silver jubilee portrait from 1977, with a privy mark of Windsor Castle

    As the 90th birthday of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II approaches, the British Overseas Territories of Ascension, British Antarctic Territory, British Virgin Islands, Falkland Islands, and South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands have launched a collection of crown coins to mark this milestone occasion.

  • Wednesday, April 13th 2016 - 05:15 UTC

    Companies with World Bank credits in Africa are linked to tax havens, claims Oxfam

    The Oxfam report showed that World Bank’s private lending arm lent money to 68 companies in 2015 for investments in Africa, 51 of the 68 companies use tax havens

    A report by the civil society network Oxfam has found, about 84% of the dollars invested in sub-Saharan Africa in 2015 by the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector arm of the World Bank Group, went to companies with presence in at least one tax haven.

  • Wednesday, April 13th 2016 - 04:58 UTC

    Another FIFA top official enters a guilty plea to four counts of corruption

    Hawit admitted he conspired with others to give companies in Florida and Argentina marketing rights to Latin American football tournaments

    Alfredo Hawit entered a guilty plea to four counts of corruption including racketeering, wire fraud and obstructing justice. The former vice president of FIFA and former interim CONCACAF president could face a maximum of 20 years in prison on each count of corruption. The 64-year-old Hawit must also forfeit US$ 950,000 to United States Department of Justice when he is sentenced.

  • Tuesday, April 12th 2016 - 22:38 UTC

    Bundesliga matches live television rights can't have a single buyer, rules Germany's anti-trust office

    “For us it is important that the rules ensure that more than one bidder wins the rights”, said Andreas Mundt, the head of the competition watchdog. (Pic dpa)

    Germany’s federal anti-trust office has approved plans to stop any single buyer from winning all the live television rights for Bundesliga soccer matches for the four seasons starting in 2017.

  • Tuesday, April 12th 2016 - 22:07 UTC

    EU farmers claim trade deal with Mercosur represents an “unacceptable risk”

    “We are aware the European Commission has tabled an offer that includes an import quota of 78,000 tons of beef”, revealed UFU president Ian Marshall.

    The first reactions to the announced Mercosur-European trade deal and exchange of proposals next week have surfaced. The Ulster Farmers’ Union president, Ian Marshall, says the European Union trade deal on offer to Mercosur countries is an ‘unacceptable risk’ to the livelihoods of farmers in Northern Ireland.

  • Tuesday, April 12th 2016 - 09:11 UTC

    First jet aircraft lands at St Helena recently finished airport

    Passengers coming off the Bombardier Challenger 300. It is scheduled to depart from St Helena next Friday

    Great day of the British Overseas Territory of St Helena: the first jet aircraft landed at the recently concluded airport in the island located in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. The business jet was chartered by Air Safety Support International (ASSI) to bring its team of five personnel to St Helena to assess St Helena Airport.

  • Tuesday, April 12th 2016 - 09:00 UTC

    Don’t Blame Panama. Tax Evasion Is a Global Problem.

    View of Panama City financial district: Panama does not deserve to be singled out on an issue that plagues many countries

    By Juan Carlos Varela (*) - The following was published by The New York Times in The Opinion Pages. DESPITE their name, the Panama Papers are not mainly about Panama. They are not even primarily concerned with Panamanian companies. The more than 11 million documents, illegally hacked and released last week relating to previously undisclosed “offshore” corporations, is roiling the world with revelations of the vulnerability for rampant abuse of legal financial structures by the wealthy.

  • Tuesday, April 12th 2016 - 07:25 UTC

    OAS calls for deep reforms in Peruvian electoral system, following Sundays vote

    EOM said the current system does not provide guarantees: it transmits legal and political insecurity to citizens and can put at risk the political rights of voters

    The OAS Electoral Observation Mission (EOM/OAS) to the general elections in Peru presented on Monday its preliminary technical report on Sunday’s general election, in which it recommends a deep electoral reform, including the system of disqualification of candidates.

  • Monday, April 11th 2016 - 05:46 UTC

    Argentina ready to formally join the IMF fold; Prat-Gay to meet Lagarde this week

    Prat-Gay will attend the IMF-World Bank summit in Washington DC and is expected to discuss the issue with IMF head Christine Lagarde.

    Argentina will start discussions with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) this week on its first Article IV review in a decade, Finance Minister Alfonso Prat Gay said at a conference held by the Institute of International Finance (IIF) in Nassau. “Next week we are going to have a discussion (with the IMF) to agree on an actual schedule for the next Article IV evaluation, which will happen sometime around September,” Prat Gay told the audience on Sunday.

  • Saturday, April 9th 2016 - 16:39 UTC

    Argentina begins next Monday road-show in UK and US to raise US$ 15bn

    Excluded from foreign credit markets since a default in 2001, Argentina has made peace with litigant investors under the administration of president Mauricio Macri.

    Argentine representatives will begin meeting investors Monday as the country returns to the international bond market for the first time in 15 years, it was announced by Economy minister Alfonso Prat-Gay from Bahamas, where he is attending the Inter American Bank annual assembly.