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UPDATE 1-Brazil cenbank keeps hawkish tone ahead of rate decision
Tue May 21, 2013 3:52pm EDT BRASILIA May 21 (Reuters) - Brazil's central bank chief Alexandre Tombini said on Tuesday that policymakers will do whatever is necessary to bring down inflation, maintaining a hawkish tone ahead of next week's monetary policy decision. Speaking to lawmakers at a congressional committee, Tombini said fighting inflation is key to bolstering confidence in the ...
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Teachers Poised to Begin More Strikes in Buenos Aires Province
SUTEBA protest (photo: Suteba) The Unified Union of Educational Workers in Buenos Aires (SUTEBA) has warned that a strike of 96 hours will go ahead if the government refuses to hold further wage negotiation talks by today. SUTEBA head Roberto Baradel said that apart from salary hikes, the union is also lobbying for increased government investment in education. ';The lack of investment is ...
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Chile Annual Presidential Speech Met with Protests
Sebastin Piera makes his way to Congress (photo: Presidencia de Chile) Various social groups are protesting today in Valparaso as President Sebastin Piera gives the final annual report of his term. Students and organisations are demonstrating against Piera for ...
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Emerging markets targeted for exports
The Commerce Ministry will focus on boosting exports to Myanmar, India, Russia and CIS, Australia, Africa and the Middle East to compensate for losses to China, Latin America and South ...
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Brazil Argentina US Have Largest Number Registered for WYD
Groups from the United States comprise the third largest national delegation of pilgrims going to the 28th World Youth Day, this year slated for July 23-28 in Rio de Janeiro, ...
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Fitch Latin American National Oil Companies Constrained by Government Involvement
Accounting Rules May Encourage Short-Term Leases The latest lease-accounting proposals from international and U.S. standard-setters, designed to aid transparency and consistency, may encourage companies to shift to short-term leases or structure agreements as service contracts, Fitch Ratings says. This could mean that fewer leases than originally anticipated will be brought onto the balance ...
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Ryan Vogelsong Santiago Casilla go on Giants DL
San Francisco Giants are bracing to be without him for two months.Vogelsong was in surgery Tuesday morning at Stanford. X-rays on Monday night revealed the injury, which came on a fifth-inning swing during an 8-0 victory against ...
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Brazil cenbank mulling derivatives to curb FX volatility-Tombini
BRASILIA | Tue May 21, 2013 3:03pm EDT BRASILIA May 21 (Reuters) - Brazil's central bank could use derivatives to reduce volatility in the foreign exchange market, central bank President Alexandre Tombini said on Tuesday. Speaking to lawmakers at a congressional committee, Tombini also said that while Brazil has taken advantage of the improvement in global liquidity, such ...
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Iran Bars Election Candidacies of Rafsanjani Ahmadinejad Aide
Iran says a conservative body has barred two prominent figures from competing in next month's presidential election - moderate former president Hashemi Rafsanjani and a leading conservative allied to current president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The Iranian interior ministry said Tuesday the Guardian Council of clerics and jurists excluded the two politicians from a final list of eight ...
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Iconic Clubs Team Up to Grow US Soccer League
Major League Baseball's New York Yankees and English Premier League football club Manchester City are joining together to enter an expansion team in U.S. Major League Soccer (MLS). The new team will be named New York City Football Club and expects to begin play in 2015 as MLS's 20th franchise. MLS Commissioner Don Garber said "this is a transformational development that will ...
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Kerry Visits Oman Seeking Syria Peace Consensus
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has held talks in Oman on his latest stop in a campaign to help arrange an internationally-sponsored Syrian peace ...
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UN Works to Contain Disease Epidemics in Two African Countries
A child from the Central African Republic receives a measles vaccine in a refugee camp set up by the UNHCR in Nangungue, eastern Cameroon, April 12, ...
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Liberace Film Spotlights Gay Rights at Cannes
CANNES -- The relationship between the flamboyant pianist Liberace and his young lover dazzled at the Cannes film festival on Tuesday and threw the spotlight on gay rights at the movie industry's largest annual gathering. Director Steven Soderbergh said he struggled five years ago to secure funding for "Behind the Candelabra" because some financiers thought the film would only ...
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Oklahoma Tornado Victims Share Stories of Survival
The deadly tornado that ripped through the midwestern state of Oklahoma on Monday left entire neighborhoods flattened, homes, businesses and schools destroyed. As emergency workers sift through the wreckage Tuesday, survivors are sharing their experiences. Among the countless buildings struck by the three-kilometer-wide tornado were two elementary schools - hit just as students were about to ...
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Jordan Army Turns Back Syrian Refugees at Border
A girl wears a headband in the colors of the Syrian revolutionary flag and painted her face with hearts during a protest in front of the Syrian embassy in Amman, Jordan, May 17, ...
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Microsoft unveils next Xbox games console
Microsoft Corp has given a first look at its new game console, hoping the newly named Xbox One will build on a solid core of gamer fans and become a hub for living room entertainment. The third-generation console, coming eight years after the Xbox 360, was unveiled by games unit chief Don Mattrick at an event at the software company's campus near ...
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Former Texas Marine kidnapped in Mexico
Armando Torres, 27 A former Marine from Texas who served for seven years has been kidnapped by armed men in Mexico, his family said.Armando Torres, 27, crossed the Los Indios Bridge in Brownsville, Texas on Tuesday night to visit his dad and was supposed to return Wednesday morning.Torres' uncle, Eduardo Torres, says he's worried and claims he and two other family members from Mexico ...
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Condor Blanco Mines to update drill results from Carachapampa in Chile
(MENAFN - ProactiveInvestors - Australia) Condor Blanco Mines (ASX: CDB) has been granted a trading halt by the ASX, with its shares placed in pre-open, pending an announcement regarding drilling results from the Carachapampa gold-silver project located in Northern Chile.The current drilling program at the project has been using two diamond drill rigs, with double shifts on both rigs ...
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Arena Pernambuco the sixth Brazil 2014 stadium to be handed over
The Arena Pernambuco was unveiled this Monday 20 May with a game of football between some of the workers who helped in its construction, thus making it the sixth 2014 FIFA World Cup™ stadium to be handed ...
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Xis Latin American tour to enhance co-op
Latin America n nations to further increase political trust and consolidate friendship with them, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said Tuesday. Hong Lei's comments at a press briefing came after Qin Gang, also a Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman, announced earlier Tuesday that Xi will pay state visits to Trinidad and Tobago, Costa Rica and Mexico from May 31 to June 6. Hong said ...
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More Idaho wheat sold for feed exports to Mexico drop
SEAN ELLIS Capital PressBOISE -- After increasing significantly in 2012, Idaho wheat exports to Mexico dropped considerably during the first quarter of 2013. The drop was caused by very high corn prices last year that resulted in a lot of Idaho wheat being sent through feed channels, according to industry experts. "Because of the price of corn, we had millions of bushels of wheat go to ...
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Violin welcomes new grand master flash flogger
Flash array startup Violin Memory has hired Steven Rose to head up both the EMEA and Latin America operations.Rose's appointment was announced on 16 May, and he will, Violin said, "lead regional market awareness [and] go-to-market ...
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D.C. organizing biz trade missions to Colombia South Africa Toronto
Interested in globe hopping for the sake of your business? Now's your chance, with ExportDC. The District's Department of Small and Local Business Development on Tuesday released its calendar of upcoming trade missions to the membership of the D.C. Chamber of Commerce. Between June and September, they'll hit four continents, a pair of Caribbean islands and, for those wanting to stay ...
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Cuba lifts import ban on domestic appliances
Cuba has authorised individual imports of appliances such as air conditioners, refrigerators and microwave ovens, lifting a ban imposed in 2005 amid a wave of energy shortages and blackouts.Islanders can now bring up to two such appliances per person into the country for noncommercial purposes. The list of approved items includes air conditioners with a capacity of less than one ton, ovens that ...
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Guyana debates whether to eliminate law that prohibits cross-dressing
GEORGETOWN, Guyana - Guyana's chief judge is holding hearings on whether to eliminate a colonial-era law that prohibits cross-dressing in the conservative South American country. The case was filed by a local gay rights group following a 2009 conviction and minor fines imposed on seven of its members. The spokesman for the Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination said Tuesday ...
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Caribbean set to ban the discharge of all non-food waste anywhere in its waters
Every single year, around 50,000 cruise ships alone, carrying a total of 14.5 million passengers, call at various ports in the Caribbean. With them comes sewerage, solid waste, leftover food, oily bilge water, and ‘grey water’ (the waste water from showering, bathing, washing up etc). Years ago, all of this waste would have been dumped into the crystal oceans of the world by cruise lines and other shipping companies, but the Wider Caribbean region has taken steps to prevent the further destruction of their environments.
Right now, at any given time, there are hundreds of cruise ships, tankers, bulk carriers, fishing vessels and pleasure craft frequenting the waters of the Wider Caribbean, a huge area of ocean of around 3.3 million square kilometers. The Wider Caribbean is home to 28 nations, either island nations or countries with a coastline on the Caribbean. Read more
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