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American newspaper front pages Friday 31 January

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Desemprego cai ao menor nível, mas renda sobe menos – Unemployment falls to lowest level, but income rises less Otra fuerte caída de las reservas: 250 millones de dólares – Another sharp decline in reserves: $ 250 million The Central Bank (BCRA) returned to halt the payment of imports yesterday, but could not prevent that stocks fell another 250 million dollars (793 million from Monday), to stay at 28.270 million. If today kept this rhythm, January is the month of greater drain of reserves since the beginning of 2006, when the Government cancelled its debt of more than US $9400 billion with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The BCRA held yesterday the official at $8.03 dollar, very close to the level that days ago the Cabinet Chief, Jorge Capitanich, defined as “acceptable convergence for economic policy objectives”. Meanwhile, in the parallel market, with very few operations, the dollar fell 30 cents, to close to 12.65 pesos. Perros están en la

Neither El Niño nor La Niña and other news and views for Friday 31 January

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Previous ministers are responsible . This week  the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority approved a project to dump dredged sediment in the Great Barrier Reef marine park as part of a project to create one of the world’s biggest coal ports at Abbot Point south of Townsville. The approved disposal site for the dredged sediment is located approximately 25km (16 miles) east-north-east of the port,  GBRMPA said in a statement . The disposal operation would be “subject to strict environmental conditions”, it said. Also this week the Hon. Greg Hunt MP, Minister for the Environment, commissioned commission an independent review into the leaking bund wall at the Port of Gladstone. The independent panel will: examine and report on information relevant to the design and construction and functioning of the outer bund wall of the western basin reclamation area that has become available since the Independent Review reported on its findings; provide advice as required to assist with th

European newspaper front pages Friday 31 January

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Menschenrechte: Russland am häufigsten verurteilt - Human rights: Russia most frequently convicted Strasbourg/Vienna – the European Court of human rights (ECHR) has determined the most violations of fundamental rights among the 47 Member States of the Council of Europe in Russia last year with 129 judgments. The annual statistics of the ECHR was presented on Thursday in Strasbourg and receives additional explosiveness through the upcoming opening of the Olympic Games on May 7. February in Sochi. The sporting event will be accompanied by protests by human rights activists, to a boycott call and complain about violations of the human rights Convention. Federal Chancellor Werner Faymann on Thursday criticized discrimination against homosexuals, decidedly in his speech to the Council of Europe Russia is not directly addressed. Faymann defended his trip to Sochi, a boycott of a sporting event was “not the appropriate means to support the legitimate concerns of human rights act

Asian newspaper front pages Friday 31 January

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