Tag: United States

• Wednesday, September 17th 2014 - 01:11 UTC

  Argentina warns US acting ambassador on 'default' statements and 'deplores lack of support'

  

  United States interim ambassador to Argentina Kevin Sullivan was summoned to foreign minister Hector Timerman's office and was informed of ”the profound and firm rejection of the Argentine government to the US diplomat’s inappropriate statements”, according to the statement from the ministry made public on Tuesday.

• Tuesday, September 16th 2014 - 05:04 UTC

  White House says it prefers the UK to remain “strong, robust and united”

  

  The White House weighed in carefully on the Scottish independence referendum, saying Washington would respect the outcome of the vote but would prefer the United Kingdom to remain “strong, robust and united.”

• Tuesday, September 16th 2014 - 02:42 UTC

  US insists with Argentina it does not support the UN sovereign debt debate

  

  As Argentine President Cristina Fernandez readies for her annual trip to New York to speak at the United Nations General Assembly, US interim ambassador in Buenos Aires Kevin Sullivan ratified that Washington will not back the UN sovereign debt resolution sparked by Argentina’s legal battle with its holdout creditors.

• Monday, September 15th 2014 - 04:00 UTC

  PM Cameron promises to hunt down IS murderers of British hostage

  

  Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron chaired a meeting of the government's emergency response committee on Sunday under growing pressure to sanction air strikes after an Islamic State video showed the beheading of a British hostage.

• Tuesday, September 2nd 2014 - 07:01 UTC

  Controversy in Uruguay over transfer of Guantanamo prisoners, before or after October election

  

  US ambassador in Montevideo, Julissa Reynoso said that Washington “does not impose a date” for the transfer and arrival of the Guantanamo prison detainees to be accepted by Uruguay, but admitted that the ideal would be for this to happen before the end of President Jose Mujica's mandate next March first.

• Saturday, August 30th 2014 - 07:10 UTC

  Venezuela cheap oil and fuel shipments to allies fall to a five-year low

  

  Venezuela’s shipments of crude oil and fuel to its allies have fallen to a five-year low as a weak economy hits its ability to uphold accords that former president Hugo Chávez struck to lower energy costs for friends and expand his diplomatic clout.

• Tuesday, August 26th 2014 - 07:14 UTC

  UK embassy apologizes for a cake 'commemorating' torching of White House

  

  The British embassy in Washington has apologized after tweeting a picture of a White House cake surrounded by sparklers, “commemorating” the burning of the building 200 years ago.

• Saturday, August 23rd 2014 - 06:18 UTC

  Yellen insists with expansive policies despite growing pressure from 'hawks' on interest rate

  

  Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said Friday that the US jobs market has not yet fully recovered, but acknowledged that data is sending mixed signals, spurring debate over inflationary pressures. In a speech to leading central bankers in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Yellen, who has kept Fed policy expansive due to perceived excess slack in the jobs market, gave no clear new signs for monetary policy.

• Thursday, August 21st 2014 - 07:31 UTC

  “Slack of US labor market” keeping the Fed from raising interest rates

  

  The US Federal Reserve hinted that a surprisingly strong jobs market recovery could lead it to raise interest rates earlier than it had been anticipating. At the same time, most Fed officials wanted further evidence before changing their view on when rates should rise, according to the minutes from the central bank's July 29-30 meeting.

• Monday, August 18th 2014 - 06:35 UTC

  Exodus: a million more Puerto Ricans on mainland US than in the island

  

  A new study has found that Puerto Rico has undergone such a dramatic population shift that there are now over a million more Puerto Ricans on the US mainland than on the US island territory. The Pew Research Center study showed that between 2010 and 2013, more people left Puerto Rico for mainland US than those who left in the 1980s or 1990s.