Politics

• Friday, September 7th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  President Bush couldn't make it in the Sydney Opera House

  

  United States President George Bush was not born to act at the Sydney Opera House. He'd only reached the third sentence of Friday's speech to business leaders, on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, when he committed his first gaffe.

• Thursday, September 6th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  General election in Gibraltar “between now and New Year”

  

  Gibraltar's Chief Minister Peter Caruana confirmed that an election will be called before the New Year, reports the Chronicle.

• Tuesday, September 4th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  IDB announces annual assembly in Miami for next April

  

  The Inter-American Development Bank will host an event in Miami September 6 for government officials, business leaders and journalists to officially launch its 2008 Annual Meeting that will take place in the city in April.

• Tuesday, September 4th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Risk Network: political pressures, main threat to global growth

  

  Political pressures present the greatest medium-term threat to global growth, according to a report released Tuesday by the World Economic Forum's Global risk network.

• Monday, September 3rd 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Kirchner ally loses gubernatorial race

  

  A socialist beat a candidate allied with Argentine President Nestor Kirchner for the governorship of a key province late Sunday, in a test of the strength of Kirchner's ruling coalition ahead of next month's presidential vote.

• Monday, September 3rd 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Mexico's Calderón slams US

  

  President Felipe Calderón blasted the United States yesterday for immigration policies that have divided families and slowed the amount of money sent home by Mexicans living north of the border.

• Monday, September 3rd 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Following the storm new chances for the pulp mill's conflict

  

  Sunday's Argentine pickets' “invasion” of neighboring Uruguay attracted considerable media coverage but overall developed peacefully and uneventful. “Invaders” protesting the construction of an allegedly contaminating pulp mill along a river shared by both countries were thoroughly searched before leaving Argentina and again at the other head of the bridge by Uruguayan authorities.

• Monday, September 3rd 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Santa Fe thrashing: Bielsa announces he's quitting politics

  Argentina's presidential couple Nestor and Cristina Kirchner harvested another electoral defeat, this time in the province of Santa Fe, a ruling party stronghold since 1983, when their hand picked candidate, former Foreign Affairs Minister Rafael Bielsa lost to a coalition of left leaning parties led by Socialist Hermes Binner.

• Monday, September 3rd 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentina/Chile Navies exchange in Punta Arenas

  An officers exchange program between the Argentine and Chilean navies is taking place in the extreme south of the continent where only two and a half decades ago both neighboring countries almost went to war over disputed islands in the Magellan Strait region.

• Sunday, September 2nd 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentine-Uruguay row heats up

  Hundreds of Argentine environmentalists crossed into Uruguay Sunday to protest a huge wood pulp plant near the border they say will pollute a river that feeds Argentine farms and tourist sites.