Politics

Wednesday, April 14th 2010 - 03:52 UTC
Uruguay/Argentina prepare for International Court ruling on bilateral dispute

A Uruguayan multi-party delegation will be present in The Hague next week when the International Court of Justice makes public its ruling on the Argentine/Uruguayan dispute over the construction of a pulp mill along shared waters.
Tuesday, April 13th 2010 - 23:58 UTC
China will reform exchange rate regime at “its own time and needs”

Chinese President Hu Jintao has resisted pressure from US President Obama to raise the value of the Chinese Yuan. He told Mr Obama that it would “neither balance Sino-US trade nor solve the US unemployment problem”, Chinese official news agency Xinhua reported.
Tuesday, April 13th 2010 - 05:59 UTC
Argentine Congress paralyzed; senators summoned by the press

Argentine Vice-President and Senate head Julio Cobos published a paid ad in the Monday edition of a Buenos Aires newspaper, where he summons those senators who had been absent to last week's session as a way of exerting pressure for next Wednesday round of debate in the Upper House.
Tuesday, April 13th 2010 - 05:55 UTC
Mrs. Kirchner dream comes true: half an hour with President Obama

US President Barack Obama will meet Tuesday with President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner on the sidelines of the Nuclear Security Summit being held in Washington. According to the White House, Obama will gather for roughly a half hour with the Argentine Head of State at 4:00 pm local time.
Tuesday, April 13th 2010 - 02:41 UTC
IMF boosts new emergency lending facility ten fold to 550 billion USD

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved Monday a ten-fold expansion of the Fund’s New Arrangements to Borrow (NAB) and the transformation of the Fund’s premier standing credit arrangement into a more flexible and effective tool of crisis management.
Tuesday, April 13th 2010 - 02:35 UTC
Polish tragedy marks European Union first day of official mourning

Russia and the European Union marked Monday an official day of mourning as Poland observes a week of commemoration following the deaths of President Lech Kaczynski, the first lady, and dozens of senior Polish leaders and military officials in a plane crash in Russia on Saturday.
Tuesday, April 13th 2010 - 00:25 UTC
Washington Post ad calls on Mrs Kirchner to cancel coal plant in Patagonia

In an attempt to take advantage of President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner's visit to the US (CFK is attending the Nuclear Security Summit), Greenpeace has posted a paid announcement on The Washington Post newspaper as a way to protest against the construction of a coal-fuelled power plant in Río Turbio, Santa Cruz province.
Monday, April 12th 2010 - 23:12 UTC
Castro brothers against opening Cuba, because that’s the end of them, claims Clinton

The Cuban brothers Fidel and Raúl Castro do not want to normalize ties with Washington because they would “lose their excuses” for the country's lack of development and openness, said US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaking at the University of Louisville in Kentucky.
Monday, April 12th 2010 - 23:04 UTC
Mercosur and EU trade negotiators must “deliver” before May summit

Mercosur is waiting for “dialogue contributions” from the European Union to decide on negotiations for a political and commercial agreement with the EU. Brussels is expected to make its move at the end of April on time for a formal launching in May of the decade-long delayed but very much needed block to block talks.
Monday, April 12th 2010 - 05:20 UTC
Chilean Army de-mining fields bordering the Magellan Strait

Chile’s Army demining team announced last week the clearance of 5.799 mines in the north of Tierra del Fuego next to the so called Primera Angostura (First Narrow) of the Magellan Strait.