Politics

Friday, August 5th 2011 - 07:47 UTC
Obama administration confident Geithner will remain in his job

President Barack Obama’s senior advisers are confident Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner will remain in his job even though he hasn’t made his intentions public, an administration official said.
Thursday, August 4th 2011 - 22:57 UTC
French students’ killed in Argentina: claims of suspects beaten by police

The family members of the French tourists who were murdered in Salta, north of Argentina were taken to the scene where the bodies were found to walk across the area, accompanied by the judge in charge of the case.
Thursday, August 4th 2011 - 19:48 UTC
Chilean students and teachers defy ban and take to the streets to protest

Protests carried out by students and teachers were suppressed Thursday by the Chilean police as over a dozen of roadblocks were set across Chile’s capital Santiago defying the government’s prohibition. Police suppressed demonstrators with tear gas and water.
Thursday, August 4th 2011 - 19:41 UTC
CFK re-election bid remains unscathed in spite of recent electoral defeats, says poll

In spite of the latest defeats in the province of Santa Fe and in Buenos Aires City, President Cristina Fernandez, CFK, has sufficient vote intention to ensure her re-election in the first round October 23.
Thursday, August 4th 2011 - 19:37 UTC
US Senate breakthrough for trade agreements with Korea, Colombia and Panama

The United States Senate leaders ended an impasse over stalled free-trade agreements, agreeing to vote after the August recess on benefits for workers who lose their jobs because of overseas competition, which opens the way for the approval of pending agreements with Korea, Colombia and Panama.
Thursday, August 4th 2011 - 19:32 UTC
Argentina manufacturers demand similar ‘Brazilian package’ to prop industry

Following on the steps of her Brazilian peer who this week unveiled an ambitious plan to prop industry, Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner met with the country’s leading business and corporate representatives and promised her government would take all the necessary measures to defend the market from the massive influx of outer region imported goods.
Thursday, August 4th 2011 - 13:56 UTC
”Against All Odds: Rescue at the Chilean Mine” exhibit opens in Washington

After nearly six months of planning, the Chilean Embassy in the United States—headed by Ambassador Arturo Fermandois—is refining the final details for the opening of a new exhibit at the Smithsonian National Museum of National History in Washington, D.C., on the historic rescue of the 33 Chilean miners last October.
Thursday, August 4th 2011 - 02:49 UTC
Malvinas veterans ask for anthropologists to identify Argentine soldiers buried at Darwin cemetery

A Centre of Malvinas War Veterans and next of kin presented a petition before a federal court requesting the identification of Argentine combatants buried at the Darwin Cemetery in the Falkland Islands and the circumstances of their death during the South Atlantic conflict in 1982.
Thursday, August 4th 2011 - 02:10 UTC
Argentine Justice blind-trust rented apartments used as brothels

An Argentine Supreme Court justice faces a possible ethics investigation for renting out apartments used for prostitution. Justice Eugenio Zaffaroni has said he had no idea that six of his 15 rental properties were being used as brothels.
Thursday, August 4th 2011 - 02:06 UTC
French pilots cease cooperation in crash inquiry on dispute over causes

French pilots on Wednesday suspended cooperation with an inquiry into the 2009 crash of an Air France jet as a dispute over the causes of the disaster opened deep wounds in France's prestigious aeronautics industry.