Politics

• Saturday, January 31st 2015 - 09:25 UTC

  Britain marks 50 years of state funeral for Winston Churchill

  

  Britain marked 50 years on Friday since the state funeral of wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill, with the boat which carried his coffin under the dipping dockside cranes in 1965 retracing its journey along London's River Thames.

• Saturday, January 31st 2015 - 09:23 UTC

  Falklands/Malvinas: Celac summit, including Commonwealth members, support Argentina's 'legitimate' claims

  

  The Celac summit held in Costa Rica and which brings together all Latin American and Caribbean countries released a declaration expressing full support for Argentina's 'legitimate' rights over the Falklands/Malvinas, recalls that 2015 marks the 50th anniversary of Resolution 2065 (first UN Assembly General resolution on the Falklands dispute) and again call on the goods offices of Ban Ki-moon to help start negotiations on the Argentina/UK dispute.

• Friday, January 30th 2015 - 20:36 UTC

  Leading culinary association promotes Argentine food and wine at the embassy in London

  

  The annual dinner of the Chaine des Rotisseurs was held in the Embassy of Argentina in the United Kingdom and for the first time, the association dedicated its major event to Argentine food and wine. Over one hundred special guests enjoyed a menu of dishes and wines representing the best of the country’s regional culinary traditions.

• Friday, January 30th 2015 - 08:25 UTC

  Chavez died December 2012 and not March 2013, says former bodyguard

  

  A former bodyguard of Venezuela’s Socialist Party heavyweight Diosdado Cabello Leamsy Salazar, who fled the country earlier this week and was reportedly collaborating with US authorities investigating allegations of Venezuelan officials' involvement in drugs, said late president Hugo Chavez did not die on 5 March 2013 but on 30 December 2012.

• Friday, January 30th 2015 - 08:19 UTC

  Argentine-born scientist to prison for providing US nuclear information to alleged Venezuelan agents

  

  A U.S. judge sentenced an Argentine-born scientist, now a nationalized American, to five years in prison for providing secret nuclear information to an FBI agent posing as a Venezuelan government official, the Justice Department announced.

• Friday, January 30th 2015 - 08:03 UTC

  Petrobras former CEO has assets frozen under court investigation

  

  A Brazilian state court froze the assets of former Petrobras Chief Executive Officer Jose Sergio Gabrielli amid an investigation of graft and money-laundering in the government-run oil producer's contracts with construction companies.

• Friday, January 30th 2015 - 07:26 UTC

  Argentine officials try to discredit prosecutor Fein and engineer Lagomarsino

  

  Argentine cabinet members diligently applied on Thursday President Cristina Fernandez strategy to disqualify facts and events surrounding the death of special prosecutor Alberto Nisman which has turned out to be a formidable blow to her administration's credibility.

• Friday, January 30th 2015 - 07:14 UTC

  Nisman “was not the maker of his death” underlines former wife at the burial

  

  Argentine special prosecutor Alberto Nisman was buried on Thursday in the same section of the main Jewish cemetery in Buenos Aires as the victims in the 1994 AMIA bombing that he was investigating, but the circumstances surrounding his death have become even more confusing and mysterious.

• Friday, January 30th 2015 - 06:46 UTC

  Falklands' anti-Argentine flag petition collects 494 names and a lively debate

  

  A lively debate, at times impassioned took place earlier this week in the Falkland Islands during a public meeting at the Chamber of Commerce to discuss bad behavior from Argentine visitors which was described as 'disturbing and distressing” for many Islanders.

• Thursday, January 29th 2015 - 19:53 UTC

  Falklands “Time Capsule” to celebrate 250th anniversary of flying the Union Flag in the Islands

  

  As part of the celebrations of the 250th anniversary of the Union Flag being raised by English Commodore John Byron in the Falkland Islands, on 21 January 1765, more precisely on Saunders Island, a ceremonial sod of turf was raised on the site for a “Time Capsule” to be buried.