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Saturday, October 11, 2014

News of Argentina- Buenos Aires Herald

Saturday
October 11, 2014
Economy Minister Axel Kicillof assured today that “the international financial system is under reform as result of the Argentine position,” with the so called vulture funds.
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Labour Minister Carlos Tomada acknowledged the unemployment rate rose slightly this year, in comparison with the same period of 2013.
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By Fermín Koop
As the AFIP tax bureau starts reviewing information it recently obtained from the French government on undeclared bank accounts held by Argentines in Switzerland, tax experts have warned that using the data might be harder than it may seem at first glance.
Some of Argentina’s holdout creditors are considering asking US District Judge Thomas Griesa to hold local state-owned lender Banco Nación and the country’s Central Bank in contempt as part of their fight against the country, according to a source.
• Pollack calls new meeting
By Sebastián LacunzaThe Media Law was navigating toward its fifth anniversary since its passage — and the first since all of its articles were declared constitutional by the Supreme Court — almost without any news with regard to one of its central aspects: the deconcentration of the market.
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By Luciana Bertoia
Alejandrina Barry was not even three years old when her picture appeared in three well-known magazines: Somos, Para Ti and Gente. The stories claimed she had been abandoned. But, in truth, her parents had been killed by a death squad in Uruguay. Over the past four years, two judges have refused.
By Marcelo García
If Argentina were in Europe, it could seek to exercise the right to be forgotten and delete from the world’s search engines most of what has happened to the country over the last two months. Default, for instance, could cease to be associated to 2014 and instead remain in the Web archives of the turn of the century.
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Economy Minister Axel Kicillof today assured Argentina will keep on looking for a solution to the vulture fund dispute and will encourage dialogue to reach a deal.
• Kicillof repeats call for 'vulture' controls
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The national government today criticized the Argentine Rural Society (SRA) leaders for not attending the G6 business group meeting called this week and accused them of having "double standards."
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Environmentalist Marina Silva said yesterday she will wait for political pledges from pro-business opposition candidate Aécio Neves before backing him in the October 26 runoff to Brazil’s presidential election.
The Argentine Industrial Union (UIA) has registered a fall of 4.9 percent in industrial activity in August, in comparison with the same period of 2013; this represents its sixth straight fall and a 2,9 percent decline for the first eight months of 2014.
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Colombian guerrilla leader Rodrigo Londono has made secret government-authorized trips to Cuba several times in the last year to meet with his team of negotiators as part of peace talks to end 50 years of civil war, Colombian officials said.
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Lionel Messi had a penalty saved as Brazil continued their defensive rehabilitation under returning coach Dunga with a morale-boosting 2-0 win over old adversaries Argentina in a feisty friendly.
• Argentina wants to extend its advantage
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Brazil's health ministry has said a man under observation for a possible case of Ebola has tested negative for the disease. The 47-year-old man arrived in Brazil on September 19 from Guinea.
• Officials say Ebola risk is insignificant • Suspected case of Ebola puts Lat Am on alert
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Leading companies offering medical evacuation services are balking at flying Ebola patients out of West Africa for treatment abroad as the cost and the complexities of the deadly epidemic grow.
• Ebola fears spread after false alarm in Vegas
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While Islamic State has been able to reinforce its fighters, the Kurds have not. Islamic State has besieged the town to the east, south and west, meaning the Kurds' only possible supply route is the Turkish border to the north.
• Bombings kill 45 in Shi'ite areas of Baghdad • Turkey to support Syrian opposition
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Britain's security services are monitoring thousands of terrorism suspects in London and are involved in operations on a daily basis, the capital's mayor Boris Johnson has said.
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About 150,000 people have been evacuated on India's eastern seaboard as cyclone Hudhud bore down and grew in sheer force, threatening to devastate farmland and fishing villages when it hits the coast on Sunday morning.
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Roger Federer brought world number one Novak Djokovic's juggernaut to a halt when a 6-4 6-4 victory in the Shanghai Masters set up a final against unseeded Frenchman Gilles Simon.
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Tensions between the International Monetary Fund and Argentina’s government once again increased yesterday as top officials of the international organization butted heads with Economy Minister Axel Kicillof over economic figures.
A county clerk in Idaho began issuing the state's first marriage licenses to gay couples today, after the US Supreme Court lifted a temporary hold it imposed days earlier, capping a week of victories for supporters of same-sex matrimony in America.
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How Sifema ratings fared on its first day




Evo Morales, the former coca growers’ union leader who seems certain to win an unprecedented third term in tomorrow’s presidential elections, has become such an institution in Bolivia that stadiums, markets, schools, state enterprises and even a village have been named in his honour.
• Radical rhetoric, but really a pragmatist • Over 120,000 Bolivians in Argentina to vote
The Herald will not be published tomorrow because newsstands will be closed due to a strike. The On Sunday supplement is being published today.

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Media Law: No place for the naive

Sebastián Lacunza

Media Law: No place for the naive

Politics & the Press: Argentina’s right to be forgotten

Marcelo J. García

Politics & the Press: Argentina’s right to be forgotten

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Martín Gambarotta - News Editor

Anything you can do...

Seven Days

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• World Trade

Argentina seeks to recover national merchant fleet, ship-building industry

• On Sunday

The cocalero, The Fighter, The President

Mickael Rouxel, waiter and boxer

Fighting fit

By Sorrel Moseley-Williams
After literally working his way around the world for several years, Brittany native Mickael Rouxel headed to new pastures and Argentina in 2012. Although he holds a degree in international business, he works as a waiter at a closed-door restaurant whose schedule enables him to train as a professional Muay Thai boxer representing Argentina.
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