International

• Wednesday, September 25th 2013 - 05:14 UTC

  Germany’s main oil company signs to operate in development of Patagonia’s Vaca Muerta shale deposits

  

  Germany’s Wintershall sealed a 150 million dollar unconventional exploration contract with the Argentine province of Neuquén’s owned Gas y Petroleo de Neuquén to search for oil in the Vaca Muerta formation. The agreement could later be extended to 3.35bn.

• Wednesday, September 25th 2013 - 05:08 UTC

  IATA forecasts a strong 2014 for the industry, but airlines on average only retain 5 dollars per passenger

  

  The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has revised its 2013 global industry outlook downwards to 11.7 billion on revenues of 708 billion dollars, but anticipates that all regions during 2014 will see improved profitability, with divergence in performance and with strong emphasis in North America with 6.3 billion net profits.

• Wednesday, September 25th 2013 - 05:03 UTC

  Major cocaine catch in Paris shipped from Venezuela triggers more questions than replies

  

  With more arrests and airline workers suspected, Venezuela's top police official said that the smuggling of 1.5 tons of cocaine in 31 suitcases on an Air France flight from Caracas to Paris has led to nine arrests on two continents.

• Tuesday, September 24th 2013 - 07:52 UTC

  Santos accepts with ‘prudence’ Mujica’s offer to host peace talks with Colombia’s ELN guerrilla

  

  President Juan Manuel Santos was grateful and ‘accepted with prudence’ his Uruguayan peer Jose Mujica offer to host a peace-talks process in Montevideo with the other big guerrilla movement in Colombia, the ELN, National Liberation Army

• Tuesday, September 24th 2013 - 07:38 UTC

  Gibraltar accuses Spain of foul play ahead of EC visit to check border controls

  

  Gibraltar has accused Spain of a “crude, last minute” attempt to “disguise and conceal” its normal customs checks at the border, just days ahead of a visit by the European Commission. The EC team arrives on Wednesday and will consist of six experts on EU customs controls and border matters.

• Tuesday, September 24th 2013 - 07:05 UTC

  Malvinas sovereignty, the main line of action at OAS pledges Ambassador Garré

  

  The new Argentine ambassador before the Organization of American States, OAS, former Defence and Home Security minister Nilda Garré begins her diplomatic job with a main line of action: ‘claiming the Malvinas Islands sovereignty” and the “resumption of negotiations with the UK”.

• Monday, September 23rd 2013 - 20:40 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez black tights disperse the focus of the October campaign

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez is scheduled to address the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Tuesday and according to the official agenda has several appointments with political leaders and business representatives.

• Monday, September 23rd 2013 - 19:05 UTC

  Francis meets with unemployed and blasts the global economic system based on a “god called money”

  

  Francis has made one of his strongest attacks yet on the global economic system, saying it could no longer be based on a “god called money” and urged the unemployed to fight for work.

• Monday, September 23rd 2013 - 18:48 UTC

  Egypt for Sale

  

  Three years has seen the overturn of two government, the deaths of thousands of people and the destruction of much of the Egyptian economy. In the end, the mobs have changed nothing, except to make their own lives more miserable.

• Monday, September 23rd 2013 - 17:20 UTC

  Coalition government: “we are open to talks” Merkel tells Social-democrats

  

  Just a few seats short of a majority, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said she's ready to begin coalition talks with the center-left SPD, but with animosity on both sides, it's not quite clear who will be courting whom, according to German analysts.