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  • 11/04/2012 | Printed Edition

    Villa 31 residents clash with police

    Dwellers of the Villa 31 slum in Retiro throw stones at police during yesterday’s clashes.

  • 12/04/2012 | Printed Edition

    French gov’t OKs new anti-terror measures

    PARIS — France’s conservative Cabinet unveiled new counterterrorism measures yesterday to punish those who visit extremist websites or travel to weapons-training camps abroad, in the wake of killings by suspected Islamic extremist Mohammed Merah in southern France last month. The measures now go to Parliament, where they may face resistance from the Socialists, who say France’s legal arsenal against terrorism is already strong enough and that the proposal is a campaign ploy to boost President Nicolas Sarkozy’s chances of a second term.

  • 12/04/2012 | Printed Edition

    Peruvian miners rescued

    Peru's President Ollanta Humala (in white shirt), surrounded by the nine rescued miners, waves outside the Cabeza de Negro mine where the miners were trapped since April 5.

  • 12/04/2012 | Printed Edition

    Righi’s replacement causes opposition outcry

    The government’s proposal to appoint current SIGEN comptroller Daniel Reposo as prosecutor-general met with similar degrees of approval from government allies and outcry from opposition groups as the previous day’s resignation by his predecessor, Esteban Righi.

  • 12/04/2012 | Printed Edition

    Santa Cruz rids YPF of key fields

    Despite YPF presenting Santa Cruz province with an investment plan worth US$4.38 billion yesterday, the province stripped the energy company of a key concession comprising three areas known as La Meseta, 24 hours before President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner meets with governors from the provinces in the Federal Oil Producers Organization (OFEPHI).

  • 13/04/2012 | Printed Edition

    Company’s shares up

    The shares of Argentina’s biggest energy company, YPF, closed 7.4 percent higher yesterday ahead of an expected government takeover of the company.On Wednesday, it lost 4.98 percent in Buenos Aires and 5.4 percent in New York. YPF’s stock has shed about 27 percent since the start of the year, hurt by media reports saying the government would either expropriate or buy a controlling stake in the company, which is majority owned by Spain’s Repsol.

  • 13/04/2012 | Printed Edition

    Spain issues YPF warning

    ‘Hostile gestures will bring consequences,’ Madrid says Tensions ran high in Spain yesterday as a minister stated that his government would interpret any “hostile gestures” against Spanish companies abroad as an act of aggression, in an apparent reference to a conflict with Argentina over the major oil company controlled by Spain’s Repsol.

  • 13/04/2012 | Printed Edition

    Takeover bill reportedly ready

    The strongly rumoured nationalization of the oil company Repsol-YPF appeared to materialize when news agency reports said President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner’s administration had a bill at the ready declaring 50.01 percent of the oil company’s shares to be “of public use and subject to expropriation.”

  • 14/04/2012 | Printed Edition

    Cuba, Malvinas to spice region’s summit

    CARTAGENA — Leaders from North and South America will mix perennial controversies over Cuba and the Malvinas with trade tensions and a new look at the war on drugs at this weekend’s summit in Colombia.

  • 14/04/2012 | Printed Edition

    Street protests test fragile truce in Syria

    BEIRUT — In the first major test of a UN-brokered truce, thousands of Syrians poured into the streets yesterday for anti-government protests, activists said. Security forces responded by firing in the air and beating some protesters, but there was no immediate sign of widescale shelling, sniper attacks or other potential violations of the cease-fire. President Bashar Assad’s regime has cracked down on protest rallies in the past and suggested it would not allow them to resume yesterday, insisting protesters need to seek permission first. Syrian forces tightened security in public squares and outside mosques.


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