Politics

• Thursday, February 21st 2013 - 01:44 UTC

  Rousseff says end of poverty is close; 48 million Brazilians registered in social support programs

  

  Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff raised the monthly stipend of 2.5 million people living below the poverty line to make good on her promise to eradicate extreme poverty in Brazil. Even when announcing she has almost met her anti-poverty target halfway through her four-year term, Brazil’s last census points to 700,000 families who still live in extreme poverty but are not registered on government social programs.

• Thursday, February 21st 2013 - 01:37 UTC

  Japan posts huge January trade deficit: weak Yen, energy bill and dispute with China blamed

  

  Japan’s trade deficit soared to a record 17.4 billion dollars on energy imports, a weaker Yen and the territorial dispute with China, the country’s main trade partner. Exports climbed 6.4% in January from a year earlier, the first rise in eight months while imports increased 7.3%, the Finance Ministry said in Tokyo.

• Thursday, February 21st 2013 - 01:35 UTC

  Cameron describes as “deeply shameful episode” 1919 massacre of Indians by colonial troops

  

  British Prime Minister David Cameron visited the site of a colonial-era massacre in India on Wednesday, describing the episode as “deeply shameful” while stopping short of a public apology.

• Thursday, February 21st 2013 - 00:24 UTC

  Pinochet generals and ministers incognito and “non official” visits to UK

  

  The fluid relation between Pinochet’s regime in Chile and the UK following Margaret Thatcher’s victory in 1979 is not nothing new, however declassified British documents of the time to which BBC World had access, reveal the intensity of those links in defence and political issues, including in March/April 1982 when the Argentine military invasion of the Falkland Islands.

• Wednesday, February 20th 2013 - 06:01 UTC

  Dissident labour unions challenge Argentine government anti-inflation and salaries policies

  

  A major labour dispute is turning into an ugly conflict with the main Argentine dissident labour union challenging the government of President Cristina Fernandez and her latest policy of freezing supermarket prices for two months in a bold attempt to contain inflation.

• Wednesday, February 20th 2013 - 05:41 UTC

  “Sustainability party” is born in Brazil headed by tireless fighter for Amazon rainforest protection

  

  Former Brazilian environment minister and presidential candidate Marina Silva has launched a new political party with an eye on next year’s presidential elections. The new party is called “Sustainability Network.” It was launched in Brasilia at a meeting of politicians, congressmen and other Silva supporters.

• Wednesday, February 20th 2013 - 05:36 UTC

  Gibraltar has a new police patrol boat to match the Guardia Civil.

  

  A very wet naming and blessing ceremony of the Sir William Jackson (*) took place on Tuesday the 19th of February at 3.30pm at the Royal Gibraltar Police Marine Section at Coaling Island. Speaking at the ceremony Commissioner Eddie Yome thanked HM Government of Gibraltar for continuing to invest in providing assets to the RGP.

• Wednesday, February 20th 2013 - 05:13 UTC

  Malvinas: read what the real world is saying

  

  By Fernando Petrella (*) - The following article by an Argentine former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs was published as a column in the Buenos Aires media. The following reproduction in English is not necessarily literal but tries keep to its spirit as much as possible.

• Wednesday, February 20th 2013 - 02:45 UTC

  Declassified documents show link between the Beagle channel dispute and the Falklands war

  

  A revealing and unexpected connection between the Falklands conflict of 1982 and the Argentine dispute with Chile over the Beagle channel has been exposed by BBC World in Spanish based on UK declassified documents.

• Tuesday, February 19th 2013 - 23:38 UTC

  HMS Argyll begins her West Africa and South Atlantic tour

  

  The Royal Navy frigate HMS Argyll left on Monday from Devonport for the West African region and the South Atlantic to undertake a range of tasks in support of British interests worldwide. She replaces in her South Atlantic tour HMS Edinburgh, ‘Fortress of the Seas’ which is to be decommissioned next June.