Politics

• Monday, September 7th 2009 - 14:49 UTC

  Brazil has the “knowledge to build an atomic bomb”

  

  Brazil has the necessary knowledge to build an atomic bomb according to an article in Sunday’s edition of Jornal do Brazil. The statement is based on a doctoral thesis presented recently at the Military Institute of Engineering IME.

• Monday, September 7th 2009 - 14:42 UTC

  Iran and Chavez to fight “imperialist” foes and help revolutionary nations

  

  Iran and Venezuela plan to stand up against “imperialist” foes by strengthening bilateral cooperation on a range of issues, including nuclear power, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said over the weekend.

• Monday, September 7th 2009 - 14:32 UTC

  Crucial WTO ruling on the “jumbo” dispute over subsidies in plane industry

  

  World Trade Organization (WTO) has given its long-awaited ruling on the biggest trade dispute in its history. The decision, which is officially confidential, is over whether the European Union gave illegal subsidies to plane-maker Airbus as the US argues.

• Monday, September 7th 2009 - 14:06 UTC

  Argentine next-of-kin preparing for trip to open Darwin cemetery Memorial

  

  Over 300 relatives from Argentines combatants killed in 1982 during the Falkland Islands conflict are preparing for the trip for the official inauguration of the Memorial at the Argentine cemetery in Darwin, according to Cesar Trejo member of the Malvinas Families Commission.

• Saturday, September 5th 2009 - 13:17 UTC

  Argentine farmers end eight day boycott promising to “keep fighting”

  

  Argentine farmers marked on Friday the end of an eight-day sales boycott with rallies and marches promising to “keep fighting” in support of aid for peers suffering from the worst drought in decades and to eliminate the current export tariffs system which distorts production and threatens several crops.

• Saturday, September 5th 2009 - 13:11 UTC

  Conservative presidential candidate remains clearly ahead in opinion polls

  

  The latest Centre of Public Studies (CEP) poll, released Thursday, shows Chilean presidential candidate Sebastián Piñera of the conservative Alianza coalition maintains a nine-point lead over Senator Eduardo Frei in a hypothetical first-round presidential election.

• Saturday, September 5th 2009 - 06:14 UTC

  PM Brown hints to earlier-than-expected withdrawal from Afghanistan

  

  UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown paved the way for an earlier-than-expected withdrawal of British troops from Afghanistan as he called for training of Afghan forces to be accelerated.

• Friday, September 4th 2009 - 13:26 UTC

  Chilean female voters split evenly between leading presidential candidates

  

  Female voters are split practically evenly between the two Chilean leading presidential candidates, according to a new poll from human rights organization Corporación Humanas.

• Friday, September 4th 2009 - 12:57 UTC

  Recovery on sight, but bumpy road ahead, warns ECB chief

  

  The European Central Bank declared Thursday that the economic contraction in Europe is coming to an end and kept interest rates on hold at 1%. However, the ECB's president, Jean-Claude Trichet, warned the recovery will be bumpy, especially in the face of high unemployment in Europe which is now 9.5%.

• Friday, September 4th 2009 - 10:24 UTC

  US lifts restrictions and allows unlimited visits to relatives in Cuba

  

  United States citizens with relatives in Cuba can send them unlimited cash and visit the island as long and often as they would like under new rules from President Barack Obama’s administration.