Politics

• Tuesday, October 12th 2010 - 00:55 UTC

  The Kirchner couple government “is corroded by corruption”

  

  Peruvian Nobel Literature Prize 2010 Mario Vargas Llosa claims Argentine president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner leads a “government corroded by corruption” and said that Argentina is disappearing as a political reference in Latinamerica.

• Tuesday, October 12th 2010 - 00:49 UTC

  Netherlands Antilles disappear, become autonomous within the Kingdom

  

  Dutch Caribbean dependency the Netherlands Antilles has ceased to exist with a change of the five islands' constitutional status. Curacao and St Maarten have become autonomous countries within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, joining Aruba, which gained the status in 1986.

• Tuesday, October 12th 2010 - 00:42 UTC

  Spanish, the third most common language in the web

  

  Spanish is the third most common language in the web with 136 million users which represents 8% of the total number of internauts in the world, behind English (38%) and Chinese (22%) according to a report from Fundacion Telefonica New York.

• Tuesday, October 12th 2010 - 00:31 UTC

  EU/Mercosur talks in Brussels to outline ‘work scheme’ for trade accord

  

  The European Union and the Mercosur trade bloc resumed on Monday a new round of talks in Brussels aimed at reaching free trade agreement in the near future after years of no talks. In the immediate the blocs are seeking to outline a “work scheme” that could be kicked off in December.

• Saturday, October 9th 2010 - 05:14 UTC

  Saudi business delegation visits Uruguay interested in secure reliable food sources

  

  A delegation of Saudi agro-business entrepreneurs headed by the Agriculture minister (and member of the royal family) visited Uruguay with the purpose of establishing a fluid trade exchange and on the long term a strategic alliance.

• Saturday, October 9th 2010 - 05:09 UTC

  Uruguay celebrated 25 years as Consultative member of the Antarctic Treaty

  

  Uruguay celebrated on Thursday the 25 years since being accepted as Consultative member of the Antarctic Treaty. The event coincided this year with the XXXIIIth Antarctic Treaty Consultative meeting which for the first time was hosted by Uruguay last May.

• Saturday, October 9th 2010 - 02:04 UTC

  China reacts angrily to award of Nobel Peace Prize to dissident Liu Xiabo

  

  China has reacted angrily to news that one of its dissidents has won this year's Nobel Peace Prize, labelling it obscene and saying the prize has gone to a criminal. Nobel Committee president Thorbjoern Jagland announced the illustrious award in Oslo.

• Saturday, October 9th 2010 - 00:38 UTC

  Abortion becomes an issue in the Brazilian presidential run-off

  

  Brazil’s ruling party candidate Dilma Rousseff is playing up her Roman Catholic background in efforts to win back religious voters, whose doubts about her faith and position on abortion rights may have cost her an outright victory in Sunday’s presidential election.

• Saturday, October 9th 2010 - 00:21 UTC

  Argentina claims IMF wants rich world’s “stagnation” exported to developing countries

  

  “The IMF wants to make us believe that the policies which caused the crisis are now going to be part of the solution”, said Argentina’s Central bank president Mercedes Marcó del Pont following the opening of the IMF/World Bank annual assembly.

• Friday, October 8th 2010 - 00:42 UTC

  “Global currencies and trade wars” led to Great Depression warn IMF and WB

  

  World leaders must defuse currency tensions before they worsen to avoid repeating the mistakes of the Great Depression, the head of the World Bank President Robert Zoellick told reporters.