Politics

• Wednesday, January 20th 2010 - 09:06 UTC

  Argentine president travels to China to boost trade and cooperation

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner will visit China next week as the country is in the middle of a controversy with Congress over a debt repayment plan which would appeal to Central bank resources but has been frozen by the courts.

• Wednesday, January 20th 2010 - 06:59 UTC

  E-Clear-Flyglobespan collapse: £35 million “no longer there”

  

  E-Clear, the company responsible for online ticket sales at the failed Scottish airline Flyglobespan, has been placed into administration. Flyglobespan also had the UK Ministry of Defence contract for the air bridge between Brize Norton and MPA in the Falkland Islands.

• Wednesday, January 20th 2010 - 06:51 UTC

  Paraguay thanks Colombia for help in the release of a kidnapped rancher

  

  The Paraguayan government and the family of a liberated cattle rancher, kidnap victim of an armed group, have thanked Colombia because the aid and intelligence provided for the liberation were “decisive”, announced Colombian President Alvaro Uribe in Bogotá.

• Wednesday, January 20th 2010 - 06:43 UTC

  Venezuela will become Mercosur fifth full member “next March”

  

  Venezuela’s incorporation to Mercosur will be completed next March according to ABN news agency from Caracas. Apparently the formality will take place in the second week of March following the end of the Paraguayan congressional recess.

• Tuesday, January 19th 2010 - 13:57 UTC

  For many Port-au-Prince residents, situation is catastrophic says Red Cross

  

  “Access to shelter, sanitation, water, food and medical care remains extremely limited,” said Riccardo Conti, the International Committee of the Red Cross, CRC head of delegation in Haiti.

• Tuesday, January 19th 2010 - 13:45 UTC

  Argentina/Brazil review bilateral trade in February

  

  Argentina and Brazil will be meeting early February in Buenos Aires to assess how bilateral trade has been evolving and to plan the following steps to keep improving trade relations between Mercosur senior members.

• Tuesday, January 19th 2010 - 13:27 UTC

  Piñera considers a unity cabinet but faces Congressional hurdle

  

  Sebastián Piñera in his first day as Chilean president-elect anticipated he could include members of the ruling coalition Concertacion in his future cabinet.

• Tuesday, January 19th 2010 - 10:43 UTC

  Joint scientific research cruise with Spain in Uruguay’s EEZ

  

  Spain’s research vessel “Miguel Oliver” set off from Montevideo for a joint scientific cruise with Uruguayan experts with the purpose of surveying Uruguay’s Exclusive Economic Zone, EEZ. The research includes chartering the area and surveying ocean conditions in the sea bed.

• Tuesday, January 19th 2010 - 01:57 UTC

  Lula da Silva absent from Bolivia’s Morales taking office ceremony

  

  Brazilian president Lula da Silva will not be participating this week at Bolivia’s Evo Morales taking office ceremony. He will be represented by his foreign affairs advisor Marco Aurelio García, according to Valor Economico, a financial publication from Sao Paulo.

• Tuesday, January 19th 2010 - 01:50 UTC

  Britain rejects latest Argentine claim to Falklands’ sovereignty

  

  The British government has firmly rejected the latest claim by Argentina to sovereignty over the Falkland Islands, Members of Parliament have been told, according to a report from BBC.