United States

• Friday, February 11th 2011 - 06:55 UTC

  Corruption controversy: Argentine official calls US diplomats “a joke”

  

  Argentina’s Cabinet Chief Aníbal Fernández is the latest high-ranking official to address the Wikileaks controversy after Spanish newspaper El País published several cables that denounced various corruption cases within the Cristina Fernández de Kirchner administration.

• Thursday, February 10th 2011 - 05:50 UTC

  Bernanke warns US job creation too weak and calls for budget discipline

  

  US unemployment remains too high for policymakers' comfort despite signs of strength in the economic recovery, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said. In testimony to the US House of Representatives' Budget Committee that largely echoed a speech he delivered last week, Bernanke also warned about the dangers of unsustainable budget deficits.

• Thursday, February 10th 2011 - 01:11 UTC

  US plans 53 billion USD high-speed rail and intercity network investment

  

  United States unveiled a strategy to spend 53 billion US dollars on high-speed rail and intercity network over the next six years. It's a plan that will, according to Vice-president Joe Biden, bring the US closer to giving 80% of Americans access to high-speed rail in the next 25 years.

• Tuesday, February 8th 2011 - 14:05 UTC

  Fearing Pinochet 1998 experience, former US president Bush cuts short EU visit

  

  When former Chilean dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet flew to Europe in 1998 for a vacation and back surgery, little did he know that he would be jailed by British authorities (acting on a Spanish arrest warrant) for human rights violations that occurred during his 17-year dictatorship.

• Monday, February 7th 2011 - 20:54 UTC

  Geithner implicitly endorses “capital controls” during Brazilian visit

  

  US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner reached out to Brazil by citing a shared concern - China - and endorsing Brazil's approach for dealing with global economic distortions.

• Monday, February 7th 2011 - 20:46 UTC

  AOL pays 315 million for online newspaper The Huffington Post

  

  Former internet media giant AOL is buying the online newspaper The Huffington Post for 315 million US dollars in a bid to regain its position as a leading producer of web content, the companies announced Monday.

• Monday, February 7th 2011 - 18:07 UTC

  US condemns South American/Arab leaders summits, say Wikileaks cables

  

  Brazilian policy towards Middle East and the Arab world harm US strategy in the region according to US embassy diplomatic cables between 2004 and 2009, recently exposed by Wikleaks.

• Sunday, February 6th 2011 - 21:02 UTC

  Geithner visits Brazil to discuss economic and financial cooperation

  

  United States Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner will visit Monday Brazil to discuss economic cooperation. Geithner is scheduled to return on the same day.

• Sunday, February 6th 2011 - 13:39 UTC

  IMF urges Uruguay to temper domestic demand and secure a “soft economic landing”

  

  The International Monetary Fund urged Uruguay to focus policies on securing “a soft economic landing” amid a surge in capital inflows to emerging economies and higher commodity prices.

• Friday, February 4th 2011 - 21:21 UTC

  Rousseff and Obama to discuss ways to counteract China’s undervalued Yuan

  

  Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff will discuss with her U.S. counterpart Barack Obama ways to counteract the threat posed by an undervalued Yuan and cheap imports from China, a Brazilian official said.