Politics

• Wednesday, April 4th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Brazil president hits controller strike

  

  The government toughened its position in negotiations with air traffic controllers Tuesday amid fears a new strike could wreak havoc with flights over the Easter weekend.

• Wednesday, April 4th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Cuba and Spain become friend again

  

  Spain has promised to resume development aid to Cuba in return for Havana's pledge to open dialogue on human rights. Spanish foreign minister Miguel Angel Moratinos held talks with Cuba's acting president; Raul Castro late on Tuesday. It was the first visit by a European Union minister since 2003.

• Wednesday, April 4th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Urges Peru protest suspension over land mine

  

  Peruvian nationalists are scheduled to illegally cross into Chile Wednesday in protest of a historic border dispute. But if the event goes as planned, Chile's Interior Minister Belisario Velasco warned Tuesday that the protest could turn deadly.

• Wednesday, April 4th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Falklands Governor defends Police over flag incident.

  The Falkland Islands Governor Mr. Alan Huckle has defended the policy adopted by the local Police Force after a group of Argentine 1982 war veterans raised an Argentine flag in the Cemetery at Darwin on Monday 2nd April, the 25th anniversary of the Argentine invasion of the islands. Many islanders questioned why the Police did not forcibly prevent the veterans from displaying the flag on British sovereign territory.

• Wednesday, April 4th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentine teachers clash with police

  

  Argentina's main teachers' union called for a one-day national strike next week after protesting colleagues seeking higher pay clashed with riot police in two provinces Wednesday

• Wednesday, April 4th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Chile's armed forces 100 percent voluntary for first time in history

  

  Chile's Armed Forces announced Tuesday that the 16,050 new recruits for 2007 were all volunteers. Citing the new recruitment law which provided funding for marketing and better benefits for solders, over 40,000 applications were received for the available spots.

• Wednesday, April 4th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Falklands Conflict: this was not a war of Nuñez versus Clement.

  

  Today, Wednesday 4th April, Mario Oscar Nuñez, late of the 12th Argentine Infantry Regiment and Gary Clement, late of 45 Commando, Royal Marines, set off from Stanley, the capital of the Falkland Islands, known to the Argentineans as Las Islas Malvinas, on a journey, which would take them approximately one hundred kilometres and twenty-five years back in time.

• Tuesday, April 3rd 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action Day

  

  Although efforts to curtail landmines have been successful, much remains to be done as the devices still kill nearly 20,000 people every year, the top United Nations peacekeeping official said on the eve of the second-ever International Day dedicated to curbing the scourge (April 4).

• Tuesday, April 3rd 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Flying Falklands visit by Shadow Foreign Secretary

  

  Former leader of the British Conservative Party, now Shadow Foreign Secretary, William Hague paid what was literally a flying visit to the Falkland Islands on Tuesday.

• Monday, April 2nd 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Shadow Foreign Secretary Hague visits Falkland Islands

  

  The Shadow Foreign Secretary, William Hague, will be visiting Brazil this weekend before travelling on to the Falkland Islands in the week of the 25th anniversary of the Argentine invasion.