Politics

• Wednesday, January 28th 2015 - 07:21 UTC

  US moves into the Caribbean to replace Venezuela as cheap gas supplier

  

  The United States Monday rolled out a new initiative for Caribbean countries to ensure energy security in a move widely seen as distancing the Caribbean from Venezuela for their oil and energy needs.

• Wednesday, January 28th 2015 - 07:11 UTC

  Spain's 'Podemos' party said relations with Gibraltar should not fall victim to “political opportunism”

  

  With the triumph on Sunday in Greece of the Syriza anti austerity party, Spain's version, Podemos under the leadership of Pablo Iglesias, and ahead in the opinion polls for the next national election, celebrated and addressed the issue of Gibraltar saying relations between the Rock and neighboring La Línea should not fall victim to “political opportunism”.

• Wednesday, January 28th 2015 - 07:00 UTC

  Argentine Jewish associations criticize Cristina Fernandez' speech as 'intentionally confusing'

  

  The Secretary General of DAIA Delegation of Argentine-Israeli Associations, Jorge Knoblovits, voiced his criticism against Monday's speech by Argentine president Cristina Fernández and reiterated DAIA’s call to abrogate the Memorandum of Understanding signed with Iran in 2013.

• Wednesday, January 28th 2015 - 06:51 UTC

  Nisman will be buried Thursday at the Buenos Aires Israeli cemetery

  

  Viviana Fein, the prosecutor investigating the death of Alberto Nisman, will order the delivery of his body to the family, since Nisman's ex wife, Sandra Arroyo Salgado, said that there was no need for a new autopsy in the investigation, the Prosecution said on Tuesday on a press release.

• Tuesday, January 27th 2015 - 19:20 UTC

  HMS Dragon helicopter helps track remaining reindeer in South Georgia

  

  HMS Dragon made her first visit to South Georgia over Christmas, reports the South Georgia newsletter in its December edition. The Type 45 air defense destroyer had a Westland Lynx helicopter on board which was used to survey the Barff Peninsula for any remaining reindeer ahead of the arrival of the Norwegian SNO marksmen.

• Tuesday, January 27th 2015 - 06:50 UTC

  Oil Prices Changing The Face Of Global Geopolitics

  

  In a documentary that aired recently on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's popular The Fifth Estate program, an allegory of Vladimir Putin was presented. The wily Russian president was described growing up in a shabby St. Petersburg apartment, where he would often corner rats.

• Tuesday, January 27th 2015 - 06:44 UTC

  Germany waiting for Tsipras government move: Greece must stick to its commitments

  

  Greece’s election has sent shockwaves throughout Europe and especially Germany. The Euro zone’s biggest economy and paymaster has reluctantly footed a big bill for bailing out Greece and other euro members, extending financial aid in return for strict and unpopular austerity measures.

• Tuesday, January 27th 2015 - 06:18 UTC

  Poverty reduction in Latin America stalls during 2014: totals 167 million

  

  Poverty affected 28% of Latin America’s population in 2014, revealing that its decline has stalled at around that level since 2012, while indigence rose to 12.0% from 11.3% during the same two-year period in an overall context of economic deceleration, according to projections from a study presented On Monday by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile.

• Tuesday, January 27th 2015 - 04:17 UTC

  Nisman's death: Cristina Fernandez blames intelligence services and claims it's a plot to discredit her administration

  

  In an hour's long speech Monday evening in national television Argentina’s president Cristina Fernandez announced a plan to dissolve the country’s top intelligence agency and replace it with a new body that will battle international threats from terrorism, drug and human trafficking, and cyber crimes.

• Monday, January 26th 2015 - 08:34 UTC

  Brazil supportive of Mercosur “as long as it does not turn into a burden”

  

  Brazil is ready to preserve the advances achieved by Mercosur but as long as the block does not turn into 'a burden' when it comes to negotiate trade agreements with third parties, according to Agriculture minister Katia Abreu.