Politics

• Monday, June 11th 2012 - 05:28 UTC

  Hollande set to consolidate power with a working majority in the Lower House

  

  Socialist President François Hollande looked set to consolidate his grip on power with a left-wing majority in parliament after a first-round vote on Sunday, and may be able to govern without relying on hard leftists hostile to closer European integration

• Monday, June 11th 2012 - 05:25 UTC

  The past haunts Chile: film praising Pinochet triggers violent clashes in Santiago

  

  Hundreds of protesters clashed violently with police in the Chilean capital as they demonstrated on Sunday against the screening of a new documentary honouring the late dictator Augusto Pinochet.

• Monday, June 11th 2012 - 04:52 UTC

  Spain separates fishing dispute with Gibraltar from any sovereignty discussions

  

  Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel García-Margallo said over the weekend that the solution to the fishing dispute was separate to any discussion on the sovereignty of Gibraltar or its waters.

• Monday, June 11th 2012 - 04:25 UTC

  Falklands’ 82 exhibition opens in Stanley and will run until April

  

  “Telling some of the personal stories behind the events we know so well,” was how Museum Curator Leona Roberts described a fascinating and comprehensive exhibition of Falkland Islands war memorabilia and stories currently on display at St Mary’s Parish Hall in Stanley.

• Monday, June 11th 2012 - 03:52 UTC

  Positive reactions to Spanish bail out, but next Sunday Greece puts the Euro to test

  

  The future of the Euro may be determined in the coming weeks, as Greek voters decide whether to honour the country’s international bailout and create a first test for Spain’s newly built 100 billion-Euro banking firewall.

• Monday, June 11th 2012 - 03:28 UTC

  Argentina claims Falklands and slams UK for ‘illegal exploitation of natural resources’

  

  Ahead of a week of intense diplomatic exchanges and on the Day of the Affirmation of the Argentine Rights Over the Malvinas, Islands and Antarctic Sector, the Argentine Government once again ratified its claim over the Islands’ sovereignty and questioned the UK over the “illegal exploitation of their natural resources” and the “increased militarization of the South Atlantic region.”

• Monday, June 11th 2012 - 03:09 UTC

  Scottish Veterans minister arrives in Falklands for commemoration

  

  Scottish Veterans Minister Keith Brown is travelling to the Falkland Islands to take part in events to mark the 30th anniversary of their liberation.

• Saturday, June 9th 2012 - 05:13 UTC

  Middle class Argentines protest with pots and pans against corruption, crime, inflation and the dollar clamp

  

  For the third night in ten days angry Argentines took to the streets of Buenos Aires and other major cities banging pots and pans to protest corruption, rampant crime and insecurity, inflation and the dollar clamp in the midst of an economy that is showing clear signals of exhaustion and growing questions on the current course of affairs.

• Saturday, June 9th 2012 - 05:08 UTC

  Spain expected this weekend to ask help from the Euro zone to bail out its banks

  

  Spain is expected to ask the Euro zone for help with recapitalising its banks this weekend, sources in Brussels and Berlin said on Friday, becoming the fourth country to seek assistance since Europe's debt crisis began.

• Saturday, June 9th 2012 - 03:31 UTC

  Hollande could manage a narrow manageable majority in Sunday’s election

  

  The latest opinion polls released ahead of France's parliamentary election on Sunday suggest President Francois Hollande will win a narrow but workable majority that depends on Green allies and hard leftists.