Politics

• Friday, February 19th 2016 - 04:35 UTC

  Macri and Renzi vow to promote bilateral trade and Italian investments in Argentina

  

  President Mauricio Macri and visiting Italian premier Matteo Renzi vowed to “re-launch bilateral relations”, and emphasized the Italian interest in participating in energy, transport, gas and technology projects in the country which has become home to one of the largest Italian migrations.

• Friday, February 19th 2016 - 04:24 UTC

  Brazil biggest environmental disaster: compensation agreement could be signed this week

  

  The Brazilian government expects to reach an agreement by Friday with Samarco Mineração to settle a 20 billion-real (US$4.9 billion) lawsuit for damages in the deadly dam disaster which burst in inland Minas Gerais creating a tsunami of mud and waste that killed 17 people and reached the Atlantic ocean.

• Friday, February 19th 2016 - 03:52 UTC

  Obama's visit is evidence Argentina is reinserting in the world, underlines Malcorra

  

  “The coming visit of President Barack Obama is irrefutable proof of what we have said all along: Argentina is reinserting itself in the world, maintaining but also opening links with all our other partners and potential associates”, Foreign minister Susana Malcorra underlined following the White House statement that the US president will be visiting Argentina next 23/24 of March.

• Thursday, February 18th 2016 - 07:16 UTC

  Russian Patriarch holds mass at the Bellingshausen Antarctic base

  

  Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill on Wednesday served mass at Russia’s Bellingshausen Antarctic station on Waterloo Island and raised a prayer for the entire world. It was the last leg of the Patriarch's Latin American tour that included a meeting with Pope Francis in Cuba, ending a Christianity schism of almost a thousand years.

• Thursday, February 18th 2016 - 07:08 UTC

  Obama expected to make a historic visit to Cuba sometime in March

  

  United States President Barack Obama will make a historic visit to Cuba within the next month, the culmination of his efforts to end a half-century of tensions between Havana and Washington, ABC and CNN reported late Wednesday.

• Thursday, February 18th 2016 - 06:57 UTC

  S&P sends Brazil's credit rating deeper into junk territory; officials 'surprised'

  

  Standard & Poor's downgraded Brazil's credit rating deeper into junk territory on Wednesday, citing its failure to curb its fiscal deficit, in a surprise blow to President Dilma Rousseff`s bid to haul the economy out of its worst recession in decades.

• Thursday, February 18th 2016 - 06:51 UTC

  US congressional delegation visits Gibraltar in support of self determination

  

  A visiting delegation from the Congress of the United States has praised Gibraltar's economy and spoken of why they co-sponsored a bill supporting Gibraltar’s right to self-determination in the House of Representatives.

• Thursday, February 18th 2016 - 06:19 UTC

  Falklands' oil industry continues to advance, despite current low prices

  

  Despite current low oil prices, the oil and gas industry in the Falkland Islands is continuing to go from strength to strength as its first project, Premier Oil’s Sea Lion, moves closer to commercialization, according to an analyst with research and consulting firm GlobalData.

• Thursday, February 18th 2016 - 01:03 UTC

  Malvinas, a dream that can be rescued

  

  Under this heading Dante Caputo, a former Argentine foreign minister (1983/89) with an impeccable domestic and international academic background addresses the 'Malvinas question' and proposes Argentina sets a 2033 target for a new attempt on the Islands, this time trying to convince the Falkland Islanders, and that in seventeen years time, the country is reliable and sovereignty discussions should then take place.

• Wednesday, February 17th 2016 - 11:11 UTC

  Pollack announces a new settlement with Argentine bondholders

  

  The court-appointed mediator in the bonds dispute says Argentina has reached a settlement with bondholders seeking about 1% of the US$10 billion being pursued by investors. Mediator Daniel Pollack announced on Tuesday in New York the deal in the class action case. The deal came nearly two weeks after he announced two of six leading bondholders settled claims for more than US$1 billion.