Politics

• Tuesday, October 8th 2013 - 18:32 UTC

  IMF forecasts sluggish expansion in developing world; trims global output estimate

  

  The International Monetary Fund trimmed its forecasts for global output for the sixth time since early last year, saying stronger growth in most advanced economies would fail to make up for a more sluggish expansion in the developing world

• Tuesday, October 8th 2013 - 17:24 UTC

  Zanini, admirer of Mao’s China, the strongman in absence of Cristina Fernandez

  

  His nickname is ‘El chino’ (the Chinese) because of his strong Maoist tendencies when a law student. Long a solicitor, Carlos Zanini is Argentine president Cristina Fernandez (and of her deceased husband Nestor Kirchner) most trusted aide and top of the Kirchnerite ‘nomenclature’.

• Tuesday, October 8th 2013 - 17:20 UTC

  London launches paper warning on defence income lost and costs for an independent Scotland

  

  A Scotland analysis paper on Defense, published on Tuesday, highlights the extent to which an independent Scotland would no longer benefit from the £34 billion annual UK defense budget, one of the largest in the world.

• Tuesday, October 8th 2013 - 06:33 UTC

  Peaceful marches of protesting teachers turn violent in Rio and Sao Paulo

  

  Protesters demonstrating in support of teachers receiving better pay in the Brazilian cities of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo have clashed with police. The centre of Rio was packed with more than 10,000 people marching peacefully. But as it got dark, some protesters threw firebombs at public buildings and riot police responded with tear gas

• Tuesday, October 8th 2013 - 06:22 UTC

  Falkland Islands sent their well-wishes to President Cristina Fernandez

  

  The Falkland Islands joined the thousands of well-wishers supporting Argentine president Cristina Fernandez who is facing a complicated medical condition and on Tuesday will undergo surgery to extract a blood clot in the cranium.

• Tuesday, October 8th 2013 - 05:54 UTC

  Boudou riding a Harley Davidson in Brasilia while Cristina faced serious medical condition

  

  “While Cristina has to step down, he’s riding a motorbike” printed in the front page one of Brazil’s leading newspapers O Estado de Sao Paulo that caught Argentine Vice-president and now acting president a few hours before he was called back to Buenos Aires because of Cristina Fernandez medical condition.

• Tuesday, October 8th 2013 - 05:49 UTC

  Boudou: “The worst negative image of the Cristina Fernandez administration”

  

  Vice-president and caretaker president Amado Boudou has “the worst negative image” of the Argentine government, according to a leading pollster in Buenos Aires. Mariel Fornoni from Management & Fit made the statement only hours before Boudou, and according to Article 88 of the Constitution, signed as acting president for thirty days during the medical absence of Cristina Fernandez.

• Tuesday, October 8th 2013 - 05:43 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez undergoes surgery to remove clot; doctors consider operation ‘low-risk’

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernandez (60) will undergo surgery on Tuesday morning to remove an accumulation of blood in her skull (subdural haematoma) following a blow in early August, according to a statement issued by the hospital where she is being treated.

• Tuesday, October 8th 2013 - 05:05 UTC

  Boudou is Argentine caretaker president but power remains in Cristina’s inner circle

  

  “There are no uncertainties or any weird things here, we just have to keep up with the performance”, said Argentine Vice-president and caretaker president Amado Boudou speaking on Monday from Government House a few hours after signing to replace Cristina Fernandez for thirty days while the head of state undergoes cranium surgery and a recovery period.

• Tuesday, October 8th 2013 - 01:25 UTC

  Ahead of Scotland referendum and 2015 election Cameron reshuffles cabinet

  

  British Prime Minister David Cameron has kicked off a coalition reshuffle, with Scottish Secretary Michael Moore among the casualties. The Liberal Democrat's Cabinet post is being taken by the party's chief whip Alistair Carmichael, just a year before the crucial referendum on independence north of the border.