Politics

• Monday, May 4th 2015 - 05:56 UTC

  Argentina's Jewish community urges for Nisman's death inquiry to continue

  

  The president of Argentina's Jewish organization AMIA, president Leonardo Jmelnitzky urged for prosecutor Alberto Nisman´s suspicious death inquiry to continue, and pointed out that the institution is waiting for the confirmation of the unconstitutional nature of Iran´s Memorandum.

• Monday, May 4th 2015 - 05:37 UTC

  Falklands implements 'local content register' for companies to become suppliers of oil sector

  

  Falkland Islands are implementing the 'local content register' the process by which companies can be recognized as local and thus become suppliers for the oil and gas sector, which is expected to continue advancing following the current round of drilling and successful discovery announcements. A first company already registered last 7 April.

• Monday, May 4th 2015 - 05:26 UTC

  Royal family and grandparents visit the new princess at Kensington Palace

  

  British royal family members visited on Sunday the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's new baby daughter at Kensington Palace with the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall spent more than an hour with their new granddaughter. The Duchess of Cambridge's parents, Michael and Carole Middleton, and her sister Pippa also met the princess.

• Monday, May 4th 2015 - 05:19 UTC

  Falklands/Malvinas claim: “Argentina following on Ghandi's teachings”

  

  Argentina is following on Mahatma Gandhi's teachings or ahimsa (truth, love and fraternity) that brought independence to India, to claim the Falklands/Malvinas and other South Atlantic islands, said Daniel Filmus, head of the Malvinas Issues Desk in the Argentine foreign ministry during his latest incursion this time in Ethiopia.

• Sunday, May 3rd 2015 - 11:47 UTC

  Founding member resigns from Spanish anti-establishment party 'Podemos'

  

  One of the founder members of Podemos, the one-year-old leftist party that has up-ended Spanish politics, has resigned in a surprise move that questions its strategy just as opinion polls show it may have peaked.

• Friday, May 1st 2015 - 07:22 UTC

  Argentine central bank president contracts wife and son; blames lobbies for releasing the news

  

  Argentina's central bank president Alejandro Vanoli strongly defended the recent contracting of his wife and son in the bank, arguing they are 'well trained' for the jobs and blamed local speculative financial groups of being behind the news which was published in the Buenos Aires media.

• Friday, May 1st 2015 - 07:14 UTC

  Tax free imported vehicles for residents from Kirchner's Santa Cruz province

  

  Argentine residents from the Patagonian province of Santa Cruz, the Kirchner family political stronghold, will be allowed to buy imported cars free of federal taxes, according to the latest resolution 31/2015, signed by president Cristina Fernandez and published in the official Gazette.

• Friday, May 1st 2015 - 07:06 UTC

  Chilean universities establish closer links with their UK counterparts

  

  A group of the main Chilean universities travelled to the United Kingdom on an invitation from UK Universities, with the purpose of deepening links and greater opportunities for collaboration in areas such as research and innovation. This was a follow up mission to the 12 British universities that visited Chile last year to establish links with their counterparts.

• Friday, May 1st 2015 - 06:56 UTC

  Uruguay forecast to grow 2.5% this year, but must “strongly moderate” public spending

  

  Private consultants forecast the Uruguayan economy will expand 2.5% in 2015, compared to 3.5% the previous year, but recommend a “strong moderation” in government spending to retake the path of sustained growth and contain the consequences of an adverse international scenario mostly recessive.

• Friday, May 1st 2015 - 06:44 UTC

  Leading Argentine economist says that we must admit “IMF is incorrigible”

  

  Economist Aldo Ferrer has said the International Monetary Fund (IMF) was “incorrigible”, questioning the report the multilateral credit organism released this week saying Argentina should devalue on its peso currency and carry out austerity policies to get back on the track of growth.