Politics

• Friday, May 4th 2012 - 06:15 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez admits the challenge of turning YPF competitive and efficient

  

  President Cristina Fernández said that YPF will be a “great challenge for Argentina” since it will have to turn into a modern competitive oil company in line with the interests of the country.

• Friday, May 4th 2012 - 06:11 UTC

  YPF vote splits opposition Radical party; dissenters blame government for the energy policy

  

  Even when the YPF nationalization bill in the Argentine Lower House was passed with support from most opposition parties, including the two main groupings the event was not without incidents.

• Friday, May 4th 2012 - 06:01 UTC

  Euphoric Argentine lawmakers celebrate final approval of YPF seizure

  

  After a two-day session, Argentina’s Lower House voted late Thursday night 207-32 in favour of expropriating energy corporation YPF, clearing the way for President Cristina Fernandez to sign the controversial bill into law.

• Friday, May 4th 2012 - 05:57 UTC

  Falklands joins Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee global celebrations

  

  The Falkland Islands Government has set aside £3,000 for Queen Elizabeth’s Diamond Jubilee events. Some of this funding is available to people who wish to organize community events and £500 has been allocated for events on the West.

• Friday, May 4th 2012 - 00:36 UTC

  ECB calls on governments to put “growth at the centre of the agenda”

  

  The European Central Bank, meeting in Spain on Thursday, held interest rates at historic lows but insisted it was up to governments to find ways of boosting growth without busting fiscal rules.

• Thursday, May 3rd 2012 - 23:35 UTC

  IMF does not see a ‘nationalization trend’ in South America; Bolivia in compensation talks

  

  The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said it does not see a trend in South America toward state nationalization of private companies despite moves made by Bolivia and Argentina in recent weeks, a spokesman said on Thursday.

• Thursday, May 3rd 2012 - 22:08 UTC

  UN Ban Ki-moon message on World Press Freedom Day, May 3

  

  “In an era of rapid and often momentous change, the value of a vigorous, independent and pluralistic press is undeniable.

• Thursday, May 3rd 2012 - 22:01 UTC

  UN highlights role of press freedom as catalyst for social and political change

  

  United Nations top officials today May 3 highlighted the power of press freedom to spark social and political change and to hold governments accountable, stressing that this vital right must be ensured across the world by creating the conditions that allow journalists to perform their work safely.

• Thursday, May 3rd 2012 - 21:56 UTC

  IAPA pays homage to the 24 journalists from Latam killed over the last 12 months

  

  As we near the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Inter American Press Association this month, I’d also like to take this especial date, May 3, World Press Freedom Day, as an opportunity to pay homage to the 24 journalists from Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico and Peru that were killed over the last 12 months. Our thoughts are with their families and colleagues, especially because in the majority of these cases, justice has not yet been done.

• Thursday, May 3rd 2012 - 21:49 UTC

  World Press Freedom Day: “One news provider killed every five days”

  

  Today Amy 3, World Press Freedom Day 2012, Reporters Without Borders condemns the furious pace of physical attacks on news providers and reports that a total of 21 journalists, and 6 citizen journalists have been killed since the start of 2012, many of them in war zones such as Somalia and Syria. This is a rate of one news provider killed every five days.