Argentina blocks farm export tax International Herald Tribune | : Argentina's Senate narrowly rejected the agricultural export tax increases that caused a nationwide farmer rebellion when the country's vice president sided with agriculture producers early Thursday and cast the deciding vote against the measure. | The Senate voted 37 to 36 to reject the system ...
A woman president scorned - by her most trusted ally The Independent | After watching its glamorous female president and the all-powerful farming lobby fight each other to a standstill, Argentina was stunned yesterday by one of the most dramatic political betrayals in living memory. | A crisis which has seen months of protests and threatened to starve the cities as t...
Argentina: A crisis of riches ISN | A seething revolt over farm-taxes has polarized Argentina in the early months of Cristina Kirchner's reign. But, says Ivan Briscoe, the dispute exposes a deeper crisis as the unresolved tensions of Argentina's modern political history return to con...
Argentine Congress, VP thwart president on taxes San Fransisco Chronicle | (07-18) 04:00 PDT Buenos Aires - -- | In a crushing defeat for Argentina's beleaguered president, the Senate rejected increases in the agricultural export tax that have caused a farmer rebellion, with the vice president siding with farmers and cast...
Argentina blocks farm export tax International Herald Tribune | : Argentina's Senate narrowly rejected the agricultural export tax increases that caused a nationwide farmer rebellion when the country's vice president sided with agriculture producers early Thursday and cast the deciding vote against the measure....
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Mercosur anger at EU migrant laws BBC News | Leaders attending an Argentine summit of South American trade bloc Mercosur are expected to strongly criticise new European Union immigration laws. | A directive passed by the EU...
Nadal, Sharapova on Wimbledon cruise as Davydenko crashes Journal Online Rafael Nadal LONDON - Rafael Nadal, Maria Sharapova and Venus Williams moved into the Wimbledon second round on Tuesday but men's fourth seed Nikolay Davydenko crashed to an embarr...
Pele robbed at gunpoint NZ Herald | Brazil's soccer legend Pele. Photo / AP | SAO PAULO - Soccer legend Pele was held at gunpoint by a band of youths who robbed his gold necklace, cell phone and a watch, local news...
Nazi-hunter says he's closing in on 'Dr. Death' Philadelphia Daily News | JEANNETTE NEUMANN | The Associated Press | BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - The world's top Nazi-hunter said Thursday he's made progress in finding 94-year-old "Doctor Death," a former concentration camp physician accused of torturing Jewish prisoners as ...
Ronaldinho out and Hleb in at Camp Nou Irish Times In this section » | Kuduzovic gives Drogheda the edgeRonaldinho smiles as he arrives at AC Milan's training centre after completing his move from Barcelona yesterday. - (Photograph: Reuters) | SOCCER: BELARUS midfielder Aleksandr Hleb has signed a fo...
Airlines to fight prosecution TVNZ Jul 17, 2008 8:05 AM | Three international airlines say they will contest charges brought against them by the Commerce Commission. | Cathay Pacific Airways, Singapore Airlines Cargo and Aerolineas Argentinas were being investigated for allegations of...
Argentina renationalises airline BBC News | The Argentine government has renationalised the country's airline, Aerolineas Argentinas, nearly 20 years after it was privatised. | It is the latest major company to be renationalised in Argentina, after a wave of privatisation in the 1990s. | The Spanish group Marsans agreed to sell Aerolineas and its subsidiary Austral for an undisclosed sum. ...
Islam and the great Turkish headscarf war The Times | Zeynep tugs the knitted cotton hat down over her headscarf. "Secular!" she says. Then she pulls off the hat, leaving just the orange fabric around her pale, earnest face. "Now, not secular!" I'm relieved that she is laughing, sees the funny side of having to look like a Smurf to complete her MA in history. The headscarf war in Turkey is so grave ...
