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Monday, November 17, 2014

Buenos Aires Herald

Monday
November 17, 2014
President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner reappeared on social network Twitter, where the head of state wrote a series of messages highlighting the importance of the inclusion in G20 final statement of a passage reflecting Argentina's fight against holdout investors.
• Climate change, growth and Russia top on the G20 agenda • Capitanich praises G20 debt clause
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The Radical Civic Union (UCR) has formally closed the door on a national electoral agreement with either the PRO party of Mauricio Macri or Sergio Massa's Renewal Front, in favour of promoting a list headed by a member of the historic party for the 2015 presidential polls.
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The National Statistics and Census Institute (INDEC) has released its figures for the unemployment level in the third quarter of 2014, showing that 7.5 percent of the population were looking for work.
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Representatives of various trade unions in the transport sector have failed to come to an agreement with the government over the granting of an end of year bonus and change in income taxes, and are set to consider industrial action and possible strikes after today's meeting.
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The federal government has strengthened its control over the expenditure and income of currency in foreign trade through the creation of the Tracking and Tracing of Foreign Trade Transactions Unit, responsible for monitoring “prices and quantities of exported and imported goods and services, as well as foreign currency income/expenditures.”
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The head of the Financial Information Unit (UIF) José Sbatella praised the creation of the Tracking and Tracing of Foreign Trade Transactions Unit to fight tax evasion and capital flight by multinational companies and denied that those illegal manoeuvers are not related to the gap between the informal and the official dollar rate.
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Ahead of a meeting with transportation unions, cabinet chief Jorge Capitanich rejected once again the reopening of national salary negotiations or any reform in income tax floor, demanded by workers across the country.
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The S&P 500 edged up to close at a record high today as deal activity worth US$100 billion offset concerns about overseas growth after Japan's economy slipped into recession.
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The Pontiff announced that he would visit the United States next year, his first trip there as leader of the 1.2 billion-member Roman Catholic Church.
• Pope warns of 'social emergency'
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The US State Department's unclassified email systems were the victim of a cyberattack in recent weeks, around the same time as White House systems were breached, a senior US official said.
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By Guillermo Háskel

Country has just launched Latin America’s first home-built communications satellite. It paid a prime of about 7% on artifact’s value. Others pay up to 14%
Japan's economy unexpectedly slipped into recession in the third quarter, setting the stage for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to delay an unpopular sales tax hike and call a snap election two years before he has to go to the polls.
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The informal rate of the US currency rose 10 cents to 13.48 pesos in undergound foreign exchange houses, having spent much of the day lower before recovering ground late in trading. Meanwhile, the official rate traded steady at 8.525 pesos.
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Foreign currency reserves at the Central Bank have increased to 28.78 billion dollars, as the entity completed the second part of a swap with its Chinese counterpart that injected the equivalent of 506 million dollars into the Bank's accounts.
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A British medical student and a Frenchman who went to Syria last year are believed to have appeared in a video showing a squad of Islamic State jihadists beheading Syrian soldiers and displaying the severed head of American aid worker Peter Kassig.
• Obama: Beheading 'an act of pure evil' • US Peter Kassig killed by Islamic State
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Lanús missed a glorious chance to go top of the Transition championship as the side let slip an early lead to go down 4-1 to Independiente. The Red Devils’ exhilarating comeback win, meanwhile, leaves Jorge Almirón’s men still with an outside chance of making a late run for the title with three games still to play.
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Omar Chabán, the former manager of Cromañón nightclub which caught fire in 2004 with 194 casualties and over 1,400 injured died today after losing his fight against Hodgkin's lymphoma.
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Colombia's peace talks with Marxist FARC rebels were in crisis as troops scoured a Pacific coast region for an army general kidnapped over the weekend in a brash move by guerrillas that endangers efforts to end 50 years of war.
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Gas jets from inside a comet hosting Europe's Philae lander may launch the hibernating probe out of its ditch and back into sunlight for a battery recharge, a former mission manager said.
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The health condition of tango singer-songwriter Cacho Castaña, hospitalised in Buenos Aires City’s Sanatorio Los Arcos, continued to worsen over the last hours. The popular singer underwent a tracheotomy surgery this morning and his wife Marina Rosenthal said that he remained in critical condition.
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By Verónica Stewart
As people entered Casacuberta Hall in the Teatro San Martín to see Hamlet performed by the Shakespeare’s Globe company of actors, the players were not sitting backstage biting their nails.

By Pablo BardinXenakis, Berio shine in Contemp Music Cycle





By Ignacio Portes & Federico Poore

Anti-US sentiment is running high in the country, with a recent poll indicating that only 36 percent of Argentines have a favourable view of the United States.
By Manuel Barrientos

In an interview with the Herald, the former dean of the School of Political Science at Córdoba’s Catholic University, Mario Riorda, analyzed the positions taken by Kirchnerism and the opposition ahead of the 2015 elections.

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