Politics

• Friday, October 11th 2013 - 12:33 UTC

  Aerosmith rockers declared fans of Uruguayan president Jose Mujica

  

  American rockers Aerosmith have declared themselves fans of Uruguayan leader Jose Mujica, a colourful former guerrilla known for his simple lifestyle. But the 78-year-old Mujica can't say the same of Aerosmith, admitting after meeting with band members that he hadn't heard any of their songs.

• Friday, October 11th 2013 - 10:18 UTC

  Uruguay: Pulp mill controversy: “Only God sets an ultimatum” Mujica tells Timerman

  

  “Only God sets an ultimatum” said Uruguay’s President José Mujica in a laconic reply to Argentine Foreign Minister Hector Timerman demand (and countdown) to return to negotiations regarding the UPM pulp plant and Montevideo’s decision to allow an increase in production.

• Friday, October 11th 2013 - 10:14 UTC

  Gibraltar accuses Spain of incitement to racial hatred and calls for ad hoc talks

  

  Gibraltar accused Spain before the United Nations Fourth Committee of incitement to racial hatred and called for reasonable dialogue urging the start of ‘ad hoc’ talks to resolve issues Madrid has been expressing concern over.

• Friday, October 11th 2013 - 09:39 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez ‘improving favourably; cabinet chief insists Boudou executing her calls

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernández is “improving favourably” and “controls were satisfactory” according to Thursday’s daily medical report on the patient who last Tuesday underwent surgery to have a subdural haematoma removed at the Fundacion Favaloro Institute in Buenos Aires.

• Friday, October 11th 2013 - 08:11 UTC

  Don’t be fooled by Libya: this is a failed state

  

  Gunmen this week seized Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan from a hotel in central Tripoli, releasing him shortly afterwards, but making it clear that post-Gaddafi Libya is a failed state and that the government is incapable of taking full control over its oilfields and export terminals

• Friday, October 11th 2013 - 08:06 UTC

  Nobel in Literature for short stories writer Alice Munro from Canada

  

  Canadian Alice Munro won the Nobel Prize in Literature for her tales of the struggles, loves and tragedies of women in small-town Canada that made her what the award-giving committee called the “master of the contemporary short story”.

• Friday, October 11th 2013 - 07:52 UTC

  Argentina prepared to comply with World Bank arbitration and pay corporations with bonds

  

  Argentina will offer 500 million dollars in sovereign bonds to resolve disputes with corporations at a World Bank arbitration panel, a financial daily newspaper reported on Thursday.

• Friday, October 11th 2013 - 07:49 UTC

  Rare praise for Argentina’s economy performance from the World Bank

  

  Argentina will grow at an enviable rate compared to other countries in the region, Chief Economist for the World Bank’s Latin America and Caribbean Office Augusto de la Torre said this week, commenting on the institution’s projections for next year.

• Friday, October 11th 2013 - 07:21 UTC

  World Bank/Argentina agree on new Strategic partnership: 3bn dollars in loans

  

  The Argentine government and the World Bank agreed on Thursday in Washington on a new Strategic Partnership involving an estimated 3 billion dollars in the next three years which will concentrate on loans for education, health care and rural development.

• Thursday, October 10th 2013 - 05:24 UTC

  Government is run by a solid team following Cristina Fernandez instructions’

  

  Argentine Cabinet Chief Juan Manuel Abal Medina guaranteed there will be no political or institutional crisis due to President Cristina Fernández health condition and underlined that ‘the president’s team is solid and working with no difficulty”, following her instructions.