Politics

Tuesday, January 5th 2016 - 06:55 UTC
UK reply to Argentina: no yield on Falklands' right to choose their future

Argentina's January 3rd. statement on the Falkland Islands dispute claiming sovereignty and calling for dialogue with the United Kingdom has received a low key but strong response from the Foreign Office, according to the Mail on line.
Tuesday, January 5th 2016 - 01:39 UTC
Saudi Arabia breaks diplomatic relations with Iran: row over execution of Shia cleric

Saudi Arabia says it has broken off diplomatic ties with Iran, amid a row over the Saudi execution of a prominent Shia Muslim cleric. Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir was speaking after demonstrators had stormed the Saudi embassy in Tehran.
Monday, January 4th 2016 - 23:58 UTC
Black year for the media: 67 journalists killed in 2015 says RSF

Sixty-seven journalists were killed globally this year, either targeted because of their work or dying while reporting, Paris-based Reporters Sans Frontiers, RSF, said in its annual report. Some 27 citizen (amateur) journalists and seven media workers were also killed.
Monday, January 4th 2016 - 09:38 UTC
How far can the Syria Conflict spiral out of control: Interview with Pelicourt

Business is business, so why not buy oil from ISIS. The Russians claim the Turks are doing it, and in all likelihood even Assad is buying it. No one can fight a war without oil, according to Robert Bensh, partner and managing director of Pelicourt LLC oil and gas company.
Monday, January 4th 2016 - 07:20 UTC
Canada opens its market to Argentine boneless fresh and frozen beef after 13 years

Canada finally made official the opening of its market to Argentine boneless beef, both fresh and frozen. This happens after thirteen years of negotiations, according to an end of the year release from the Argentine ministries of foreign affairs and agriculture and livestock, and the Argentine animal sanitary office. The decision became effective last 17 December.
Monday, January 4th 2016 - 07:09 UTC
Brazil's Rousseff faces Olympic political and financial challenges this year

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff began the new year on the offensive declaring the impeachment proceedings she faces as “unfair” and overruling by veto more than 50 amendments made by lawmakers to the nation’s budget, including reductions to her flagship Bolsa Familia social program.
Monday, January 4th 2016 - 06:56 UTC
Head of Malvinas Museum, one of Argentina's foremost experts on the issue

Federico Lorenz, considered one of Argentina's foremost experts on the Falklands/Malvinas Islands issue and author of multiple works on their history, will take the reins as the interim director of the Malvinas Islands Museum in the latest in a far-reaching shuffle of key cultural positions in President Mauricio Macri’s new administration.
Monday, January 4th 2016 - 06:35 UTC
Argentine ex foreign minister Taiana speaker of Mercosur parliament during 2016

Argentina's former foreign affairs minister under ex president Cristina Fernandez, Jorge Taiana has been nominated speaker of the Mercosur Parliament in Montevideo, as of this month and year.
Thursday, December 31st 2015 - 08:35 UTC
Spain's Socialists rules out any partner that supports Catalonia independence referendum

Spain's Socialist party ruled out forming a new government with any party that supported a referendum on independence in Catalonia, a stand that prolongs political uncertainty after this month's inconclusive national election.
Thursday, December 31st 2015 - 08:22 UTC
Switzerland hands bank documents from FIFA corruption to US prosecutors

Swiss authorities have handed over the first round of bank documents seized in their FIFA corruption investigation to U.S. prosecutors on Wednesday. The Federal Office of Justice in Switzerland says the documents relate to “bank accounts allegedly used for bribes connected with the grant of marketing rights to soccer tournaments in Latin America and the USA.”