Politics

• Tuesday, August 28th 2018 - 09:02 UTC

  Argentine economy expected to contract 1% this year and rebound 1.5% in 2019

  

  Argentina’s economy is expected to contract 1% in 2018, but grow by at least 1.5% next year, Minister Nicolas Dujovne told reporters on Monday. Dujovne said the government was maintaining its fiscal deficit target of 2.7% of GDP for full-year 2018. The government also expects a current account deficit of 3% of GDP in 2019, he said.

• Tuesday, August 28th 2018 - 08:44 UTC

  After criticism, White House flag at half-staff on John McCain's death

  

  US President Donald Trump has announced that the White House flag will be returned to half-staff, after critics attacked his response to the death of Republican senator John McCain.

• Tuesday, August 28th 2018 - 08:41 UTC

  Ocean Infinity seabed survey company to begin looking for ARA San Juan next month

  

  United States based seabed survey company Ocean Infinity hopes to begin searching for the missing Argentine submarine ARA San Juan (S-42) in September. The announcement was made by Argentine defense minister Oscar Aguad.

• Tuesday, August 28th 2018 - 08:30 UTC

  Exodus of Venezuelan migrants comparable to “Mediterranean refugees” events, says UN office

  

  The exodus of migrants from Venezuela is building towards a “crisis moment” comparable to events involving refugees in the Mediterranean, the United Nations migration agency said.

• Tuesday, August 28th 2018 - 08:25 UTC

  Chilean Supreme Court seizes US$ 1.6m assets from Pinochet family

  

  Chile's Supreme Court ordered the seizure of more than US$1.6 million from the assets of the late dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet. The top court also sentenced three former military officers to four years in prison for embezzlement of public funds in a case involving Pinochet, but allowed them to remain free under conditional liberty.

• Tuesday, August 28th 2018 - 08:21 UTC

  Brazil Supreme Court to decide on freight rates imposed by government

  

  Brazil's Supreme Court will rule as soon as possible on several challenges to the constitutionality of a law imposing minimum freight prices, but no ruling will come on Monday, Supreme Court Justice Luiz Fux said.

• Tuesday, August 28th 2018 - 08:00 UTC

  Chagos dispute back on the table: the International Court of Justice to address the issue next week

  

  The British government has been accused of threatening a close ally in an increasingly bitter diplomatic tug-of-war over the fate of a tiny, strategic archipelago in the middle of the Indian Ocean.

• Tuesday, August 28th 2018 - 07:38 UTC

  Unasur will decide on removal of Nestor Kirchner's statue at its headquarters in Quito

  

  An Ecuadorian lawmaker has called for the removal of a statue of Argentine ex president Nestor Kirchner from the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) Secretariat Headquarters in the city of Mitad del Mundo, close to Quito.

• Tuesday, August 28th 2018 - 07:32 UTC

  Brazil's Supreme Court will rule on Lula's presidential candidacy in September

  

  Brazil’s Supreme Court will weigh in September an appeal by jailed former president Lula da Silva to be set free so he can join the presidential campaign already under way, a court spokesperson said on Monday.

• Tuesday, August 28th 2018 - 07:14 UTC

  US has offered to collaborate with the Argentine investigation of “K corruption notebooks”

  

  According to Buenos Aires daily Clarin, United States authorities have offered to collaborate with Argentine President Mauricio Macri’s government in the ongoing “K notebook scandal” by providing confidential information on a number of US bank accounts used to hold alleged Kirchner bribe money.