Politics

• Monday, October 24th 2011 - 19:36 UTC

  Falklands Councillor, Emma Edwards, resigns from Legislative Assembly

  

  In a statement from Government House, issued last Friday, the 21st October, it was confirmed that Emma Edwards has resigned as a Member of the Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly (MLA). And that His Excellency the Governor, Mr Nigel Haywood CVO, had accepted “with regret” the resignation.

• Monday, October 24th 2011 - 15:57 UTC

  UK congratulates CFK and reiterates Falklands’ sovereignty is ‘not negotiable’

  

  The British government congratulated Argentine President Cristina Fernandez on her re-election and historic victory in Sunday’s polls but it also insisted that the sovereignty of the Falklands is “not negotiable”.

• Monday, October 24th 2011 - 07:01 UTC

  CFK calls for ‘national unity’ and brushes aside re-re-re-election rumours

  

  Re-elected President Cristina Fernández urged Argentines to join in “national unity” and asked to “avoid being distracted by useless confrontations”. She also sent a strong message brushing aside increasing rumours that ultra-Kirchner followers were ready to amend the constitution for an “indefinite re-election”

• Monday, October 24th 2011 - 06:59 UTC

  Governor Scioli re-elected governor of the crucial Buenos Aires province

  

  The ruling coalition of Argentine President Cristina Kirchner also had a landslide performance in the governorships taking eight out of nine, with an impressive victory in Buenos Aires where governor Daniel Scioli was re-elected by with 56% of the vote, even better than his mentor.

• Monday, October 24th 2011 - 06:50 UTC

  Argentine patrols harass Falklands’ licensed jiggers outside the port of Montevideo

  

  Spanish jiggers operating in the South Atlantic with Falkland Islands licences complain they are been harassed by the Argentine Navy just a few miles away from the port of Montevideo where they call for discharging, maintenance and bunkering.

• Monday, October 24th 2011 - 06:45 UTC

  Argüello claims the UK is ‘stealing’ fisheries resources from Argentine Malvinas

  

  Jorge Argüello, Argentina's permanent representative to the United Nations, accused the United Kingdom of stealing Argentine fisheries resources around the Falkland/Malvinas Islands.

• Monday, October 24th 2011 - 06:41 UTC

  Philip Morris shuts down plant in Uruguay because of anti-smoking policies

  

  The US tobacco giant Philip Morris said on Friday it shut down its plant in Uruguay because the country's anti-smoking policies make business unprofitable.

• Monday, October 24th 2011 - 06:38 UTC

  Brazilian Sports minister again on the limelight in spite of presidential support

  

  Brazilian media reported more corruption allegations against the country's embattled Sports Minister on Saturday, raising the pressure on him to quit a day after he received the backing of President Dilma Rousseff.

• Monday, October 24th 2011 - 06:31 UTC

  Sarkozy to Cameron: “you hate the Euro so stop telling us what to do”

  

  French President Nicolas Sarkozy launched a scathing attack on British Prime Minister David Cameron at Sunday's EU summit, saying he was “sick of him telling us what to do,” Britain's press reported.

• Monday, October 24th 2011 - 06:12 UTC

  Ecuador president condemns killing of Gaddafi and family members as ‘homicide’

  

  Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa described the death of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi as a “murder” and strongly rejected foreign in the North African country.