Politics

• Wednesday, September 8th 2010 - 23:32 UTC

  “The Cuban model doesn’t ever work for us anymore”, admits Fidel Castro

  

  “The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore”, admitted Fidel Castro to Jeffrey Goldberg, a writer for the Atlantic Monthly magazine who interviewed the leader and asked if Cuba's model -- Soviet-style communism -- was still worth exporting to other countries.

• Wednesday, September 8th 2010 - 23:25 UTC

  HMS Endurance to be replaced with vessel from Norway early 2011

  

  Senior Royal Navy sources have confirmed a vessel from Norway will join the fleet early next year to replace Endurance, which almost sank in 2008, reports The News from Portsmouth.

• Wednesday, September 8th 2010 - 05:05 UTC

  Fidel tells Iranian president to stop slandering Jews and understand ‘anti-Semitism’

  

  Cuba's former leader Fidel Castro has urged Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to stop slandering the Jews, according to an article published on the US website The Atlantic on Tuesday.

• Wednesday, September 8th 2010 - 04:53 UTC

  Argentina wants to stall Montevideo port as the efficient regional hub

  

  In spite of the good relations between the governments of Uruguay and Argentina following the agreement reached on pulp mills, pending and new issues are creeping into the bilateral agenda that could threaten the good chemistry between presidents Jose Mujica and Cristina Kirchner.

• Wednesday, September 8th 2010 - 03:26 UTC

  Soros donates 100 million USD to expand Human Rights Watch in key regional capitals

  

  Hungarian born US billionaire financier and philanthropist George Soros is donating 100 million US dollars to the group Human Rights Watch. In a statement Tuesday, Human Rights Watch said Soros is giving the grant through his Open Society Foundations, which he established to promote tolerance and democracy around the world.

• Wednesday, September 8th 2010 - 03:24 UTC

  Labour victory in Australia means 30% mining tax will go ahead

  

  Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard secured a razor-thin parliamentary majority ending a political impasse but investors are worried about the fragility of her government and its plans to tax mining profits.

• Wednesday, September 8th 2010 - 03:03 UTC

  First Iranian ambassador presents credentials to Bolivian President Morales

  

  Iran began to make effective closer diplomatic ties with Bolivia with the presentation of its first ever ambassador in La Paz, while President Evo Morales is anticipated to visit Teheran at the end of the month.

• Wednesday, September 8th 2010 - 02:36 UTC

  “Steam roller” Rousseff collects more campaign funds than her eight rivals

  

  The Brazilian presidential electoral campaign for pro-government candidate Dilma Rousseff has gathered more funds than the campaigns of her eight rivals combined, according to data published by the TSE Superior Electoral Tribunal.

• Wednesday, September 8th 2010 - 02:29 UTC

  A review of Third World United States: the Argentina connection

  

  United States online publication The Huffington Post published Tuesday an article whose title caught the attention of those in the Southern cone: “Becoming Argentina: A Review of Third World America.”

• Tuesday, September 7th 2010 - 05:59 UTC

  Landslide Bulgarian vote for Dilma Rousseff president of Brazil

  

  Bulgaria has been trapped by a “Dilma fever” given the almost certain victory of the Brazilian ruling party’s presidential candidate Dilma Rousseff whose family came from Bulgaria.