Tag: New York

• Monday, June 18th 2018 - 08:44 UTC

  Falklands' lawmakers ready for a robust presentation before C24

  

  Falkland Islands lawmakers have pledged that their presentations before the United Nations Decolonization Committee or C 24 this year in New York will be as robust as ever, despite the improvement of relations between Argentina and the United Kingdom.

• Wednesday, May 16th 2018 - 17:42 UTC

  68% of the world population projected to live in urban areas by 2050, says UN

  

  Sustainable development depends more and more on the successful management of urban growth, especially in low-income and lower-middle-income countries where the pace of urbanization is projected to be the fastest.

• Thursday, January 4th 2018 - 09:18 UTC

  Petrobras agrees to pay US$ 2.95bn to settle class action suit in New York

  

  Petrobras has agreed to pay US$2.95 billion to settle a class action suit in New York brought on behalf of investors harmed by a huge corruption scandal at the Brazilian state oil giant, the company said on Wednesday.

• Tuesday, January 2nd 2018 - 11:19 UTC

  Busiest air route in North America is Mexico City/Cancun with 3.7m pax

  

  A new study shows that Mexico City to Cancun is the busiest air route in North America. Almost 3.7 million passengers traveled the 1,294 km journey between Mexico City Juarez and Cancun in the twelve-month period between November 1, 2016 and October 31, 2017, putting it at the top of the study’s rankings. The average cost of a ticket was US$72.

• Wednesday, December 27th 2017 - 11:02 UTC

  Federal Judge Griesa who presided over Argentina's dispute with hedge funds, has died

  

  A New York federal judge who drew the ire of Argentine government officials in a long-running case over Argentina’s debts has died. Judge Thomas P. Griesa was 87, and spent 45 years on the federal bench.

• Tuesday, November 7th 2017 - 09:05 UTC

  Macri paid tribute to Argentines killed in a New York terrorist attack

  

  Argentina’s President Mauricio Macri paid tribute on Monday to five of his countrymen killed in an attack in New York City. The five Argentines were among eight people killed when a man drove a rented pickup truck down a mile-long stretch of bike path in Manhattan, mowing down people enjoying a sunny fall afternoon.

• Monday, October 24th 2016 - 11:20 UTC

  Airbnb sues New York State for imposing costly fines on online rentals

  

  After New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed legislation on Friday imposing costly fines onto people who advertise illegal rentals online, the housing site Airbnb sued, contending that the law violates freedom of speech and is unconstitutional.

• Tuesday, April 28th 2015 - 05:04 UTC

  New York dims lights in high buildings to help birds' migration

  

  The state of New York is to turn off non-essential lights in state-run buildings to help birds navigate their migratory routes in spring and autumn. Migrating birds are believed to use stars to navigate but they can be disorientated by electric lights, causing them to crash into buildings.

• Wednesday, February 4th 2015 - 08:16 UTC

  A record 56.4 million tourists visited New York last year

  

  A record 56.4 million tourists visited New York last year, drawn by its diverse culture, low crime and “dynamism,” and generating 61.3 billion for America's largest city, officials said this week.

• Tuesday, September 24th 2013 - 07:52 UTC

  Santos accepts with ‘prudence’ Mujica’s offer to host peace talks with Colombia’s ELN guerrilla

  

  President Juan Manuel Santos was grateful and ‘accepted with prudence’ his Uruguayan peer Jose Mujica offer to host a peace-talks process in Montevideo with the other big guerrilla movement in Colombia, the ELN, National Liberation Army