Politics

• Tuesday, April 19th 2011 - 04:41 UTC

  Falklands’ explosives disposal team has dealt with 2.8 million ordnance items in 29 years

  

  After almost twenty nine years of service to the Falkland Islands the Joint Services Explosive Ordnance Disposal team based at Hillside Camp in the capital Stanley will be transferring its service to JSEOD teams based at the Mount Pleasant Complex.

• Tuesday, April 19th 2011 - 04:04 UTC

  Wikileaks reveals Malaysian air force over up of F-5 jet engines which turned up in Uruguay

  

  The Malaysian government failed to inform Washington that two “US-supplied” F-5 fighter jet engines had gone missing since May 22, 2008, despite having at least “three opportunities” to come clean, according to leaked United States diplomatic cables released recently.
  The engines two years later were finally located two years later in Uruguay.

• Tuesday, April 19th 2011 - 03:51 UTC

  What is behind Brazil’s high rates: loose fiscal policy, low savings or politics

  

  With Brazil’s benchmark interest rate at 11.75% and prospects of further increases Latin America’s largest economy poses a challenge to economists and analysts. The answers are not only economic but also political.

• Tuesday, April 19th 2011 - 02:09 UTC

  Argentina’s economic activity indicator jumped 8.7% in February

  

  Argentina's February monthly economic activity indicator, or EMAE, jumped 8.7% on the year and was up 0.4% on the month, the national statistics agency Indec reported Monday. The EMAE comprises most components of gross domestic product.

• Tuesday, April 19th 2011 - 01:57 UTC

  Uruguay resisted pressure from the Bush administration over ties with Iran

  

  Uruguay resisted pressures from the administration of former US President George W. Bush to reduce ties with Iran. Uruguay’s Foreign Affairs minister Luis Almagro on a Middle East tour made the revelation during a meeting in Teheran with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, according to the official Iranian news agency.

• Tuesday, April 19th 2011 - 01:39 UTC

  BMW suspends car exports to Argentina because of import restrictions

  

  Argentina's economy is among the fastest-growing in the world, but that may be little consolation to the country's luxury-car fans that have lost access to the world's best-selling premium car.

• Tuesday, April 19th 2011 - 01:30 UTC

  US concern over growing Chile-China links, revealed by Wikileaks

  

  In 2005, with Chile negotiating a Free Trade Agreement with China, the United States became increasingly worried over China’s influence in the area, according to a confidential cable released last week by Wikileaks.

• Monday, April 18th 2011 - 21:51 UTC

  Finland’s anti-Euro strong showing could block Portugal’s bailout negotiation

  

  What’s the link between Portugal's bailout negotiations and Finland? Well negotiations began under a cloud Monday after an anti-Euro party scored big gains in a Finnish election and immediately vowed to derail the pending rescue.

• Monday, April 18th 2011 - 19:13 UTC

  S&P downgrades US debt outlook from “stable to negative”, because of budget deficit

  

  The United States have been warned that the credit rating on its government debt could be cut by Standard & Poor's. The risk rating agency is concerned that Democrats and Republicans will not be able to agree a plan to reduce the growing US deficit.

• Monday, April 18th 2011 - 18:57 UTC

  RAF biggest ever aircraft transport and tanker begins testing in UK

  

  The Royal Air Force largest ever aircraft with a 60 metre wingspan and nearly 60 metres long arrived in the UK for the first time this week, the MOD has announced. The new future strategic tanker aircraft (FSTA) has also been named publicly by the RAF as Voyager.