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  • Saturday, June 20th 2015 - 00:14 UTC

    Argentine congress members in Paris investigating HSBC with whistleblowers

    Roberto Feletti and a group of Argentine lawmakers met with French legislators and discussed the economic and political scenario of Europe and Latin America

    Members of the Argentina's congressional bicameral commission investigating HSBC alleged illegal scheme to help Argentines evade taxes and siphon money out of the country, met in Paris with a group of French legislators and with UBS whistleblower Stéphanie Gibaud.

  • Friday, June 19th 2015 - 23:58 UTC

    Middle East carriers among the top ten 2015 Skytrax World Airline Awards

    Qatar Airways took first place followed by Singapore Airlines and Hong Kong-based Cathay Pacific, which claimed the top honors in 2014.

    Middle East carriers again outranked US airlines this year in the 2015 Skytrax World Airline Awards. Qatar Airways took the top honor, up from second place in 2014. But the other Gulf airlines from the so-called Middle East Three group, Emirates and Etihad, were not far behind, in fifth and sixth place, respectively.

  • Friday, June 19th 2015 - 23:51 UTC

    Fourteen Caribbean BOTs blacklisted by EU as world's worst tax havens

    European Commissioner Moscovici said publishing the list of “non-cooperative jurisdictions” was a decisive step for territories to adopt international standards.

    Fourteen Caribbean countries are among 30 territories blacklisted by the European Union (EU) as the world’s worst tax havens. The list published by the EU on Wednesday includes Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Grenada, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, St. Kitts and Nevis, and the British Overseas Territories of Anguilla, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Montserrat, and the Turks and Caicos Islands.

  • Friday, June 19th 2015 - 15:32 UTC

    Joint IAATO-Lloyd’s Register workshop to prepare for the Polar Code

    A dynamic, interactive and constructive workshop on how to tackle implementing the forthcoming International Maritime Organization (IMO)’s Polar Code has just concluded and fittingly, the workshop took place at London’s home of exploration, the Royal Geographical Society, Kensington.

  • Friday, June 19th 2015 - 06:02 UTC

    Thatcher secret documents on Falklands' war reveal her anxiety over casualties

    She wrote: 'The Union Jack was flying in San Carlos Bay. We had returned to the Falklands. My heart was full but desperately anxious about casualties'.(Pic Mail Onliine)

    The Mail on line revealed on Thursday a secret handwritten account of the Falklands War by Margaret Thatcher. The 128 page, 17,000 word handwritten memoir of the 1982 conflict reveals for the first time her anxiety on the eve of battle and her joy at winning back the Islands from Argentina.

  • Thursday, June 18th 2015 - 07:08 UTC

    Mercosur/EU hope 'for positive news in third quarter' despite members' domestic problems

    Sendic revealed that not only Argentina has 'difficulties' for a Mercosur/EU accord: the same can be said of several European countries

    The European Union also has difficulties in completing a draft proposal of goods and services to exchange with Mercosur in the search for a long delayed trade agreement between the two blocks, revealed Uruguayan vice-president Raul Sendic during a report to the Senate on his recent 10/11 June trip to Brussels for the Celac/EU summit. However in “the third quarter of the year there should be positive news”.

  • Thursday, June 18th 2015 - 05:18 UTC

    Chris Evans will replace Jeremy Clarkson as lead presenter of Top Gear

    “I promise I will do everything I possibly can to respect what has gone on before and take the show forward,” pledged Chris Evans

    British TV and radio personality Chris Evans will replace Jeremy Clarkson as the lead presenter of an all-new Top Gear line-up, the BBC has announced. Evans said he was “thrilled” to get the job, describing the motoring show as his “favorite program of all time”.

  • Thursday, June 18th 2015 - 05:10 UTC

    Nestle will destroy more than 50m dollars of Maggi noodles in India

    The company insists that the noodles are safe and is challenging the ban. Nestle has 80% of India's instant noodles market.

    Nestle says it will destroy more than $50m worth of its hugely popular Maggi noodles, following a ban imposed by India's food safety regulator following tests have found the instant noodles “unsafe and hazardous” and has accused Nestle of failing to comply with food safety laws.

  • Thursday, June 18th 2015 - 05:01 UTC

    Switzerland pulling the noose: evidence of 53 FIFA suspicious banking reports

    Switzerland’s attorney general Michael Lauber is leading the investigation into criminal mismanagement and money laundering within FIFA

    Swiss authorities say they have evidence of 53 suspicious FIFA-linked banking relations reported by Swiss banks. Under the Anti-Money-Laundering Framework of Switzerland, banks are required to report any suspicious activity that happens within their accounts. Some of the 53 suspicious reports are among 104 banking relations already known by the investigators.

  • Thursday, June 18th 2015 - 04:51 UTC

    ITUC challenges football associations and sponsors to push for independent FIFA reform commission

    ”Sponsors should make this reform commission a condition of any continued relationship with FIFA” according to Sharan Burrow

    The International Trade Unions Congress, ITUC is calling on national football associations to push for genuine reform of FIFA through the establishment of an independent commission, and not merely accept that FIFA can suddenly reform itself under a leadership which has failed to end corruption after years of multi-million dollar scandals