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Thursday, May 21, 2015

Buenos Aires Herald

President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner received representatives of five trade unions and business chambers to sign collective salary agreements closed in the last 24 hours, sealing pay rises of around 27 percent in the sectors for the coming year.
Buenos Aires Mayor and presidential hopeful for the PRO party Mauricio Macri has rejected the possibility to compete with lawmaker and Renewal Front leader Sergio Massa in the presidential PASO primaries, and confirmed María Eugenia Vidal as the only PRO candidate for Buenos Aires province governor.
•  Massa angry at Macri for blocking deal
Heading a rally in the Buenos Aires City railway station of Retiro, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner said economic agenda decisions were “political” and had to be made by "the president." Still, Ms. Kirchner pointed out Economy Minister Axel Kicillof was her “right hand” and her “best adviser.”
Pope Francis has sent a letter to President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner to mark festivities for May week, during which the country commemorates the formation of the First Patriotic Government on May 25 1810.
• Pope sends May blessing
By Ignacio Portes

Ana Testa, a survivor of the concentration camp

‘Everything is just as it used to be except there’s more information’

Interview with Acting Caracas metropolitan Mayor Helen Fernández

‘We are in a country where nothing is normal’

By Richard Townley

A man takes pictures of the front page of a newspaper featuring a picture of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, in front of the White House in Washington, DC.
Osama bin Laden was fixated on attacking US targets and pressured al Qaeda groups to focus on that cause, according to documents the United States says were seized in bin Laden's hideout in Pakistan.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday cancelled a plan that would have banned Palestinian labourers from riding on the same buses with Jewish settlers in the West Bank, just hours after it was — an embarrassing about-face that reflected the tensions enveloping Israel’s new government.
The so called "blue" dollar dropped six cents to close at 12.64 pesos. Meanwhile, in BA City banks and foreign exchange offices, the official rate ended half a cent higher at 8.975 pesos.
Islamic State militants stormed the Syrian city of Palmyra, seizing it from government forces in fierce fighting as civilians were evacuated and Syria's antiquities chief called on the world to save its ancient monuments.





The interviews with former Iranian officials accused of the AMIA bombing aired by news channel C5N were covered by a number of international media outlets.
• 'Argentina is instrument of Zionism'
Leader of 18J Association, an organization bringing together some of the relatives of the AMIA victims, questioned the statements made by Ali Akbar Velayati on Monday in an interview the former Iranian foreign minister granted to the C5N news channel.

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Blue-collar England

Ivan Briscoe

Blue-collar England

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Andrés Federman

Mercosur: 30 years on

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Eric Weil / Sportsworld

The AFA killed Emanuel Ortega

Hard times ahead

Marcelo Falak

Hard times ahead



By Anne D'Innocenzo

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