US President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, have sent letters to President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner to salute the head of state on the anniversary of the May Revolution.
Argentina’s trade surplus has decreased 69.2 percent in April, compared to the same month last year, according to the INDEC statistics bureau. The drop is mainly explained by the decrease in commodity prices
Drug baron Ariel Máximo Cantero, leader of the criminal group “Los Monos”, has been captured by police in Rosario city, Santa Fe province.
The so called “blue” dollar increased one cent to close at 12.65 pesos. In Buenos Aires City banks and foreign exchange offices, the official rate ended half a cent higher at 8.985 pesos.
Boca Juniors will sue 17 Xeneize club members for 70 million pesos, accusing them of throwing bottles and a pepper spray-like substance to River Plate players during the last Superclásico played at La Bombonera.
Scioli wants to hold the discussion at the University of Buenos Aires
Presidential hopefuls have agreed to debate, says Church official
Brazil has unveiled a spending freeze, limiting outlays to about 70 billion reais in a bid to convince investors that President Dilma Rousseff is committed to saving the nation's investment-grade rating.
Signs of discontent are becoming visible among the leaders of the Mercosur, with Uruguay’s President Tabaré Vázquez and his Brazilian counterpart Dilma Rousseff both calling for broad reforms.
• Brazil's economy hit by recession
US stocks ended weaker after Federal Reserve's Janet Yellen indicated that the central bank was poised to raise interest rates, in line with Wall St's expectations.
Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen today said she expected the central bank to raise rates this year as the US economy was on course to bounce back from a sluggish first quarter and as headwinds at home and abroad begin to wane.
The State Department posted on its website a set of ex-Secretary Hillary Clinton's emails that were related to a 2012 attack on a US facility in Benghazi, Libya.
Worldwide inequality is on the rise and damaging economic growth according to a new global study from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), calling for action from the developed world’s governments to tackle the problem.
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