Politics

• Tuesday, June 25th 2013 - 06:14 UTC

  Francis sends strong message to the Curia and the Vatican high life

  

  A last-minute no-show by Pope Francis at a concert where he was to have been the guest of honor has sent another clear signal that he is going to do things his way and does not like the Vatican high life.

• Tuesday, June 25th 2013 - 06:10 UTC

  Falklands: memories needed for a thesis on the SS Great Britain, Bristol’s main heritage attraction

  

  PHD student James Muirhead, based in Bristol’s Brunel Institute, is preparing for a trip to the Falkland Islands where he hopes to collect memories of the SS Great Britain which was abandoned there at Sparrow Cove in 1937.

• Tuesday, June 25th 2013 - 06:05 UTC

  Brazilian protests delegates unsatisfied with President Rousseff’ proposals

  

  The leaders of the “Free Fares” movement that triggered the worst wave of street protests in two decades rocking the Brazilian government to its foundations said their meeting with President Dilma Rousseff was ‘unsatisfactory’ because there were “no concrete proposals”.

• Tuesday, June 25th 2013 - 06:01 UTC

  Rousseff proposes referendum on sweeping political reforms in response to protests

  

  Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff proposed on Monday a popular referendum to implement sweeping political reforms in response to the country's largest public protests in 20 years. Rousseff called for a public vote to eventually amend Brazil's constitution as she tries to seize the momentum in a national debate set off by two weeks of increasingly disruptive demonstrations.

• Tuesday, June 25th 2013 - 05:57 UTC

  Argentine central bank has lost 17% of reserves since the ‘dollar clamp’

  

  Argentine central bank international reserves dropped 17% since the government of President Cristina Fernandez imposed the ‘dollar clamp`, first limiting operations in the US currency and later savings in greenbacks. While this happened in Argentina in other regional central banks, international reserves kept climbing, according to a report from consultants Economia&Regiones (E&R).

• Tuesday, June 25th 2013 - 02:00 UTC

  Lead case in Uruguay: Herbicide-spraying company forced to pay compensation for fumigating school

  

  A Uruguayan rural school teacher who suffered the consequences of agro-toxics spraying from neighbouring soybean crops has won a civil court demand against the fumigation company. The court ruled that Agronegocios del Plata, ADP, must compensate Silvia Nobelasco the equivalent to 6.800 dollars.

• Monday, June 24th 2013 - 19:09 UTC

  Abortion law in Uruguay stands; insufficient support to force a repeal referendum

  

  A liberal abortion law in Uruguay withstood a challenge Sunday as Uruguayan opponents failed to attract enough votes in a consultation ballot to force a national referendum on repealing it.

• Monday, June 24th 2013 - 15:46 UTC

  Google is in a borderline crisis with European Union

  

  By Thomas Richardson - Google has reached a settlement with regulators of the European Union after antitrust charges were levied against the company. The EU accused Google of selectively displaying results based on its preferences. Google, which owns a virtual monopoly on Internet queries in Europe, is also accused of favouring the use of its own products in search results, which has drawn complaints from competitors, and the attention of regulators.

• Monday, June 24th 2013 - 08:24 UTC

  Supreme Court Justice and anti-corruption champ has become symbol of Brazilian protests

  

  Joaquim Barbosa the black magistrate from Brazil’s Supreme Court and who won national acknowledgement as inflexible with corruption cases has become the preferred candidate for 2014 presidential elections by the thousands of protestors who took to the streets these last two weeks.

• Monday, June 24th 2013 - 08:22 UTC

  Three out of four Brazilians fed up with poor public services support street protests

  

  An overwhelming majority of Brazilians, 75% supports the two weeks street demonstrations demanding improved public services and complaining about the huge sums invested in stadiums for football world cups, according to a public opinion poll from Ibope and which was released in the latest edition of the weekly magazine Epoca.