Politics

• Thursday, May 28th 2009 - 12:07 UTC

  US reintroduction of dairy export subsidies trigger barrage of criticisms

  

  Twenty-nine countries at the World Trade Organization criticized the United States on Wednesday for reintroducing export subsidies on US dairy products, calling the handouts a dangerous retreat into protectionism and warning of “subsidy wars.”

• Thursday, May 28th 2009 - 12:03 UTC

  Group of countries call of a quick Doha round deal to combat protectionism

  

  A group of exporting countries called this week for a deal in the World Trade Organization's long-running Doha round as the best way to tackle growing protectionism threats in the economic crisis.

• Thursday, May 28th 2009 - 06:18 UTC

  OAS taskforce to evaluate re-admission of Cuba

  

  The Organization of American States (OAS) moved Wednesday to create a taskforce to evaluate various proposals to readmit Cuba into the body, in the face of disagreements on the subject.

• Wednesday, May 27th 2009 - 12:09 UTC

  Argentine industries union rejects Venezuela in Mercosur

  

  Argentina’s powerful Industrial Union (UIA) urged Argentina's government to revise the possibility of integrating Venezuela as a member of the Mercosur, “after the reiterating actions which have implied the nationalization of companies in Venezuela”.

• Wednesday, May 27th 2009 - 11:53 UTC

  Brazil confident Venezuela joins Mercosur next September

  

  Brazil Lula da Silva said on Tuesday his peer Hugo Chavez is expecting the Brazilian Senate to approve Venezuela’s incorporation to Mercosur before next September.

• Wednesday, May 27th 2009 - 06:30 UTC

  Obama nominates Latino woman to Supreme Court

  

  President Barack Obama has nominated Sonia Sotomayor to serve on the country's Supreme Court. Ms Sotomayor, 54, who has now to be approved by a Senate vote, would be the first Hispanic to take the position.

• Wednesday, May 27th 2009 - 06:20 UTC

  'They told me I don't have the right to make any political comments'

  

  Peruvian journalist Álvaro Vargas Llosa was briefly arrested for a few hours and his passport withheld by the authorities when he arrived this week at the Maiquetía's airport in Venezuela.

• Wednesday, May 27th 2009 - 01:39 UTC

  UK/Argentine agreement on Falklands’ Next of Kin visit

  

  The UK Embassy in Buenos Aires has announced that UK and Argentine Government have decided to facilitate the initiative of the Commission of the Families of the Fallen to inaugurate the Memorial in Darwin Cemetery on the Falklands Islands.

• Tuesday, May 26th 2009 - 18:29 UTC

  Santiago residents have increasing number of firearms for protection

  

  According to the latest study on citizen security, families in the Talagante borough of the Santiago de Chile Metropolitan Region have the highest number of firearms for protection.

• Tuesday, May 26th 2009 - 17:59 UTC

  Last surviving Falkland’s warship bows out

  

  The last surviving operational Royal Navy warship which took part in the Falkland Islands conflict of 1982 retires from service tomorrow (Wednesday May 27).