Politics

Friday, August 29th 2014 - 06:25 UTC
UK expertise to help Santiago's with a 'greener' public transport system

The British Embassy in Chile together with the Metropolitan Public Transportation Department (DTPM) and the consultant company Sistemas Sustentables Ltd., Chile hosted the workshop ‘Improving bus technology within the public transport system of Santiago’.
Friday, August 29th 2014 - 06:17 UTC
Capitanich downplays success of strike and claims only well paid unions joined

Argentine cabinet chief Jorge Capitanich downplayed the success and support of Thursday's strike and stressed that the income tax, one of the key points in the protest only reaches 10.4% of workers and criticized radical groups for supporting those “who earn most”
Friday, August 29th 2014 - 06:04 UTC
Argentina says it won't yield to unions; controversy over success of the national strike

Argentina's Labor minister Carlos Tomada said that it is not a government’s priority to discuss the modification of the income tax or re-opening wage talks, as dissident unions demanded during a general strike on Thursday which partially paralyzed Buenos Aires city since several transport unions joined the stoppage.
Friday, August 29th 2014 - 05:56 UTC
Argentina will only negotiate with all bondholders: no more piecemeal debt talks

Argentina's government ruled out further piecemeal debt talks with a small group of U.S. hedge funds (holdouts) and said the country needed to strike a deal with all bondholders including those which have rejected past restructuring agreements as a single group.
Thursday, August 28th 2014 - 06:51 UTC
Marina leaps ahead in presidential debate; wants brightest minds to join her government

A surging Marina Silva took Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff to task in an election debate Tuesday night when she touted her government's achievements in improving social conditions and defending wages in the midst of global economic crisis.
Thursday, August 28th 2014 - 06:21 UTC
“The Battles of Coronel and Falkland Islands” restored 1927 film gala screening next October

British Composer award winner Simon Dobson’s latest high profile collaborative project will be heard at Queen Elizabeth Hall in London in October, with the premiere of a new restoration of one of the most significant films about the First World War.
Thursday, August 28th 2014 - 06:11 UTC
Dollar new record in Argentina: 14.45 Pesos; Capitanich blames 'speculative attacks'

While Argentine Cabinet Chief Jorge Capitanich claimed the country was suffering “speculative attacks“ to systematically erode the ”government’s credibility and trust” the US dollar in the Buenos Aires informal market continued to climb and ended Wednesday trading 25 cents higher at 14.45 Pesos.
Thursday, August 28th 2014 - 06:06 UTC
Malvinas: Chile reiterates support for Argentina's claim through dialogue

Foreign minister Heraldo Muñoz reiterated on Wednesday Chile's support for Argentina sovereign rights over the Falkland Islands, Georgia and South Sandwich Islands during a meeting with visiting Daniel Filmus, head of Argentina's desk relative to Malvinas and other South Atlantic Islands affairs.
Wednesday, August 27th 2014 - 21:03 UTC
Socialist Hollande converts into orthodoxy: names former Rothschild banker in Economy

French president Francois Hollande has replaced his maverick leftist economy minister with a former Rothschild partner in a reshuffle intended to reconcile his efforts to revive the stagnant French economy with deficit-cutting orthodoxy.
Wednesday, August 27th 2014 - 20:52 UTC
Knee Defender causes incident in airliner and forces an unscheduled stop

An airliner has been diverted after a row broke out over one passenger's use of a device to prevent the seat in front of him from reclining. A male and female passenger were involved in a heated dispute last Sunday, after the male passenger attached a Knee Defender to his seat.