United States

• Friday, May 23rd 2014 - 10:50 UTC

  Protesting McDonald's workers arrested in Chicago; labor pay debate beginning to brew in US

  

  More than 100 demonstrators seeking better pay for McDonald's workers were arrested on Thursday as protesters swarmed the fast-food chain's corporate campus near Chicago demanding a minimum wage of 15 dollars an hour and the right to unionize.

• Thursday, May 22nd 2014 - 00:31 UTC

  Fed minutes confirm a retreat from easy monetary policy; concerns regarding job creation

  

  Federal Reserve policymakers last month began laying groundwork for an eventual retreat from easy monetary policy with a discussion of how to best control interest rates as they remove trillions of dollars from the financial system.

• Wednesday, May 21st 2014 - 07:10 UTC

  Mosquito-borne Chikunguna cases reported in Miami

  

  The viral mosquito-borne disease, Chikunguna, has been confirmed in three counties of the state of Florida. According to the Florida Department of Health, the women who recently travelled to the Caribbean include a 29-year-old from Broward County.

• Wednesday, May 21st 2014 - 06:23 UTC

  China protests US claims of cyber spying and warns of ‘harmed relations’

  

  China has summoned the US ambassador who had accused five Chinese military officers of hacking into American companies to steal trade secrets, warning Washington it could take further action, the foreign ministry has said.

• Saturday, May 17th 2014 - 06:45 UTC

  Obama lists assets worth 7.15 million; presidential salary 400.000 dollars

  

  President Barack Obama lists assets worth between 1.95 million and 7.15 million dollars, of which 1 million to 5 million dollars were in Treasury notes, according to financial disclosure forms released today.

• Thursday, May 15th 2014 - 01:01 UTC

  Surprise in Argentina that Mujica should have said “Uruguayans don't go around bribing”

  

  A top official from Argentine President Cristina Fernandez said that “Argentines do not bribe” and does not know why the Uruguayan leader Jose Mujica should have brought up that issue during his current visit to the United States.

• Thursday, May 15th 2014 - 00:38 UTC

  Next US ambassador to Uruguay could be a New Mexico sheep farmer

  

  Uruguayan president Jose Mujica said that the future US ambassador in Montevideo could “probably” be Edward Avalos, currently Under Secretary for trade and regulatory programs from the US Department of Agriculture.

• Wednesday, May 14th 2014 - 05:24 UTC

  Uruguay offers 'tremendous guarantees' and is a 'decent country' Mujica tells US investors

  

  Uruguay offers “tremendous guarantees” for investors and is “a decent country”, said President Jose Mujica on his second day visit to Washington where he addressed 120 business people at the US Chamber of Commerce during a Tuesday morning work-breakfast.

• Wednesday, May 14th 2014 - 05:19 UTC

  Mujica meets Kerry to implement support at technology and education levels

  

  President Jose Mujica addressing US Secretary of State John Kerry said that Uruguay has a significant deficit in technology and scientific education, and was hopeful that cooperation with the United States would help insisting that the goal is achieving equality and wealth distribution.

• Wednesday, May 14th 2014 - 05:08 UTC

  The very good reasons to invest in Uruguay, according to Minister Bergara

  

  Minister of Economy Mario Bergara addressed on Tuesday the US Chamber of Commerce in Washington and said Uruguay was a good place to invest because despite being a small market, it was a good launching pad to develop in the region.