Politics

• Friday, September 12th 2014 - 06:12 UTC

  Argentine organized labor leader forecasts a “social explosion” next December

  

  Argentina is heading towards social outbreak due to soaring inflation, head of the anti-government CGT Azul y Blanca labor confederation Luis Barrionuevo said in statements that have already sparked controversy.

• Friday, September 12th 2014 - 04:49 UTC

  Samper becomes Unasur secretary general and ratifies peace as his main mission

  

  Former Colombian president Ernesto Samper was inaugurated on Thursday as Secretary General of the Union of South American Nations, Unasur, by Surinam's Desire Bouterse who holds the rotating presidency of the group.

• Friday, September 12th 2014 - 04:37 UTC

  IMF warns about the negative reactions from markets if Scotland becomes independent

  

  Scotland’s possible secession from the United Kingdom as a result of the upcoming referendum could cause negative market reactions in the short-term, William Murray, Deputy Spokesman at International Monetary Fund (IMF), told reporters Thursday.

• Friday, September 12th 2014 - 04:17 UTC

  With Scottish eyes and hearts, Catalonians pack the streets of Barcelona

  

  Hundreds of thousands of Catalans packed the streets of Barcelona on Thursday to demand the right to vote on a potential split from Spain, their ambitions boosted by an independence referendum scheduled for next week in Scotland.

• Friday, September 12th 2014 - 04:08 UTC

  FIFA vice-president has called for 'corruption' report to be published

  

  FIFA vice-president Jeffrey Webb has called for Michael Garcia’s report into the corruption-tarnished World Cup bidding process to be published. The CONCACAF president made his declaration at the Soccerex Global Convention in Manchester on Tuesday.

• Friday, September 12th 2014 - 03:58 UTC

  Canadian team locates English vessels lost in 1845 in the Northwest Passage

  

  After more than 160 years of searching to understand the fate of English explorer Sir John Franklin’s fabled arctic voyage, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced a Canadian team has located one of Franklin’s historic ships and solved one of the world’s greatest archaeological mysteries, according to reports from Parks Canada.

• Friday, September 12th 2014 - 03:37 UTC

  Emilio Botin, “El presidente” and the 'unofficial king of Spain'

  

  Emilio Botin, “El Presidente” to co-workers and the third generation of Botins to run Santander, was at the forefront of a drive to create global banks, offering a one-stop shop to multinational companies and a range of services to consumers.

• Thursday, September 11th 2014 - 17:00 UTC

  There are two Mercosur, but only the ideological one prevails

  

  The original Mercosur is over; it has been reduced to a political block with a three member board, Brazil, Argentina and Venezuela, according to Demetrio Magnoli a renowned Folha de Sao Paulo columnist who added that the 'political' Mercosur has helped the Alliance of the Pacific to advance.

• Thursday, September 11th 2014 - 16:29 UTC

  UK political leaders from all parties off to campaign in Scotland as YES vote advances

  

  The leaders of the main UK parties have made a plea for a vote against Scottish independence, as they campaigned north of the border ahead of the referendum. Prime Minister David Cameron said he would be “heartbroken” in the event of a “Yes” vote, while Labor leader Ed Miliband said the case for the Union came from the “head, heart and soul”.

• Thursday, September 11th 2014 - 16:19 UTC

  Royal Navy will have a second aircraft carrier, “Prince of Wales”

  

  The UK Royal Navy is to get the second operational aircraft carrier, British Prime Minister David Cameron announced. Britain is building two 65,000-ton aircraft carriers in a £6.2 billion deal with a BAE Systems-led industry alliance, but the Conservative-led coalition had previously said it would mothball or sell the second warship due to the cost of operating two carriers.