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  • 15/04/2012 | Printed Edition

    CFK, Obama meet in Cartagena

    ‘No trade demands,’ says Argentina President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and her US counterpart Barack Obama held bilateral talks during the 6th Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia, the state news agency Télam confirmed at press time last night.

  • 15/04/2012 | Printed Edition

    Secret Service scandal widens

    CARTAGENA — An embarrassing scandal involving prostitutes and Secret Service agents widened yesterday when the US military confirmed five service members staying at the same hotel in Colombia may have been involved in misconduct as well. The allegations overshadowed President Barack Obama’s diplomacy in Latin America and threatened to bruise the United States’ image.

  • 15/04/2012 | Printed Edition

    US President seeks to woo LatAm

    by Andrew Cawthorne and Laura Macinnis reuters CARTAGENA — President Barack Obama tried yesterday to convince sceptical Latin Americans that Washington had not turned its back on them — but a prostitution scandal involving US security personnel marred the charm offensive.

  • 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.

  • 14/04/2012 | Printed Edition

    YPF: Madrid summons Argentine ambassador

    As speculation continued about how President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner’s administration could possibly takeover the oil company YPF, the Spanish government yesterday feverishly heightened its lobby in various sectors to defend the interests of Repsol, which is the majority shareholder.

  • 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.”

  • 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.


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