Tag: United States

• Sunday, April 1st 2012 - 08:06 UTC

  Three players (and the tax man) share largest lottery jackpot in US history

  

  The largest lottery jackpot in US history, 656 million dollars, will be shared by the buyers of three winning Mega Millions tickets in Illinois, Kansas and Maryland - but their identities remained a mystery, lottery officials said on Saturday.

• Thursday, March 29th 2012 - 01:39 UTC

  Argüello says Argentina/US relations are fine, “nothing to worry about”

  

  The Argentine Ambassador to the US, Jorge Argüello, assured on Wednesday that despite reactions to trade barriers put up this week by the US to Argentina, there was “nothing to worry about” regarding the relationship between the countries.

• Wednesday, March 28th 2012 - 05:49 UTC

  US/Argentina spat “comes as no surprise” and is a “serious bump in the road”

  

  The US government said on Tuesday that their recent decision to suspend Argentina from the Generalized System of Preferences, GSP, program, which waives import duties on thousands of goods from developing countries “is a serious bump in the road”, but “should not come as much of a surprise.”

• Wednesday, March 28th 2012 - 00:41 UTC

  CFK promises to address “trade wars and guerrillas” in a most civilized and legal way possible

  

  President Cristina Fernández questioned US president Barack Obama’s recent decision to suspend trade benefits for Argentina, while complaining that “we can’t even manage to get one of our lemons to enter the US market.”

• Tuesday, March 27th 2012 - 12:17 UTC

  Global stocks rally as Fed confirms easy monetary policy to fight unemployment

  

  Global stocks rallied on Monday while the dollar retreated after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said that in order to reduce unemployment, easy monetary policy should stay in place. The benchmark S&P 500 index closed at its highest level since May 2008.

• Saturday, March 24th 2012 - 02:31 UTC

  US relation with Argentina souring: Congress to cut special trade benefits

  

  The US administration of President Barack Obama is loosing its patience with Argentina and in coming days is expected to finalize special tariff benefits for certain Argentine exports.

• Friday, March 23rd 2012 - 23:22 UTC

  US nominates public health expert of South Korean origin for World Bank top job

  

  The United States has nominated a public health expert of South Korean origin as its candidate for the World Bank presidency, a job emerging market economies are contesting for the first time.

• Monday, March 19th 2012 - 07:01 UTC

  Rousseff expected at the White House but with no ‘state visit’ privilege

  

  Next April 9 Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff is expected in the White House and although formally relations are ‘excellent’, Brazil and the US have many dissenting issues, according to Andres Oppenheimer from the Miami Herald and considered an expert in Latin American affairs from the US perspective.

• Thursday, March 15th 2012 - 22:30 UTC

  PM Cameron says Obama promised ‘neutrality’ and ‘no prodding’ for talks on the Falklands issue

  

  Prime Minister David Cameron revealed President Barack Obama said the US was content with the status quo in the Falkland Islands and ‘would stop prodding Britain and Argentina’ to talk to each other.

• Thursday, March 15th 2012 - 06:20 UTC

  “Self-determination is the right path for the Falkland Islands”

  

  To affirm the Special Relationship, Barack Obama should offer his support to the islanders, writes Jim Sensenbrenner.