Politics

• Wednesday, October 16th 2013 - 08:18 UTC

  Hedge funds request US Appeals court to lift hold on a ruling to repay holders

  

  US hedge funds fighting Argentina for repayment on defaulted debt asked a US appeals court on Tuesday to lift its hold on a ruling that ordered Argentina to repay the holders.

• Wednesday, October 16th 2013 - 08:16 UTC

  Official September inflation in Argentina 0.8%, less than half the so called Congress index

  

  The Argentine government official Consumer Prices Index climbed 0.8% in September over August and reached 7.4% in the first nine months of the year, according to the National Stats Institute, Indec.

• Wednesday, October 16th 2013 - 08:14 UTC

  Clashes with police in Brazil’s main cities in support of striking teachers

  

  Protesters have clashed with the police in Brazil's largest cities, Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, after marches in support of striking teachers. Soon after a peaceful march by more than 5,000 people ended in Rio, a much smaller masked group attacked shops, set fire to a police car and threw petrol bombs.

• Wednesday, October 16th 2013 - 00:26 UTC

  Pulp mill conflict: Argentina summons Uruguay: roll back latest decision or see you in The Hague

  

  In a formal presentation Argentina summoned Uruguay ‘to leave without effect’ its latest controversial decision allowing the Botnia/UPM pulp plant to increase its annual production and accused Uruguay of ‘unilateral violation’ of the River Uruguay statute which rules over the neighbouring countries shared-border waterway.

• Tuesday, October 15th 2013 - 23:19 UTC

  Spain says Andalucia must have equal status to Gibraltar in any ad hoc UK/Madrid talks

  

  The Junta de Andalucia must have an equal status to Gibraltar in any UK/Spain talks in which the British Overseas Territory participates, Spain’s Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia Margallo declared at a press conference following a meeting with Junta president Susana Diaz.

• Tuesday, October 15th 2013 - 23:16 UTC

  Lula wishes CFK a full recovery and underlines close relationship between Brazil and Argentina

  

  Former Brazilian president Lula da Silva wished a “full recovery” to Argentine President Cristina Fernández who underwent surgery last week for a head blood clot, and highlighted the close relationship between the two countries: “the last ten years have been the best period in our shared history.”

• Tuesday, October 15th 2013 - 23:13 UTC

  Argentine dictatorship human rights case involving Mercedes Benz reaches US Supreme Court

  

  Disappearances allegedly perpetrated during the last Argentine dictatorship by automaker Mercedes Benz will be discussed at the US Supreme Court as part of a civil suit launched by victims and relatives against the subsidiary of Germany’s Daimler.

• Tuesday, October 15th 2013 - 18:15 UTC

  HMS Protector leaves for Antarctica from Portsmouth but will return to Davenport

  

  Royal Navy’s newest ice patrol ship HMS Protector leaves Portsmouth this week on deployment to Antarctica, but she will be returning to Davenport, where she is to be based in the future.

• Tuesday, October 15th 2013 - 18:04 UTC

  Venezuela releases oil exploration vessel detained in disputed Guyana waters

  

  The owners of a US-operated oil ship which was detained by the Venezuelan navy on Thursday say the vessel has been released. The Venezuelan navy had boarded the Teknik Perdana on Thursday in disputed waters off the coast of Guyana and sailed it to Venezuela's Margarita Island.

• Tuesday, October 15th 2013 - 17:58 UTC

  Venezuelan retired officers justify ‘military action’ against Maduro and claim it’s not a coup d’état

  

  A group of 45 Venezuelan retired top officers among which a dozen generals and admirals and a former defence minister have published an open statement in which they accuse the government of President Nicolas Maduro of having broken the country’s “constitutional thread” and thus support a military action which, they say “would not be a coup d’état’.