Politics

• Friday, May 26th 2017 - 07:34 UTC

  Odebrecht offices in Buenos Aires raided as part of an investigation into bribes

  

  Argentine federal agents searched the offices of the Brazilian construction conglomerate Odebrecht in Buenos Aires on Wednesday as part of an investigation into alleged bribes in the granting of construction contracts for a water treatment plant.

• Friday, May 26th 2017 - 07:16 UTC

  Labour cuts Conservatives lead to five points, according to post-Manchester poll

  

  Britain's opposition Labour Party has cut the lead of Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservatives to five points less than a fortnight before a national election, according to the first poll published since the suicide bombing in Manchester killed 22 people.

• Thursday, May 25th 2017 - 20:45 UTC

  Brazilian ex presidents discussing the outcome of the political situation

  

  Three ex Brazilian presidents are holding talks on the future of the country following what seems the inevitable outcome of the current political situation with deep differences between the political system and the Judiciary.

• Thursday, May 25th 2017 - 20:27 UTC

  Public opinion forces Temer to withdraw troops from streets of Brasilia

  

  Brazil's President Michel Temer called troops back off the streets of the capital Thursday after deploying them to guard government buildings following riots by protesters demanding he quit. A decree published online in the official journal said the president had revoked an earlier measure to deploy 1,500 federal troops -- a delicate issue in a country with living memory of a military dictatorship.

• Thursday, May 25th 2017 - 10:54 UTC

  Chaos taking hold of Brazil; a desperate Temer calls in the military to restore order

  

  Brazil’s president ordered the military to restore order in the country’s capital Wednesday after some government ministries were evacuated during clashes between police and protesters who are seeking the leader’s ouster. Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched to Congress to protest economic reforms that President Michel Temer is pushing through and to demand he step down amid a corruption scandal.

• Thursday, May 25th 2017 - 10:37 UTC

  Falklands claims C24 is unresponsive to some non self governing territories, and has a colonialist attitude

  

  The Falkland Islands said that the reason why some Non Self Governing Territories were unresponsive to the Special Committee on Decolonization, or C24, was that the issues proposed were not attractive, and to be effective it must engage with these territories in a more effective manner, and with a much less colonialist attitude.

• Thursday, May 25th 2017 - 10:20 UTC

  Economists point out serious math errors in Trump's budget proposal

  

  The White House has denied the president's budget proposal contains an “egregious” math error. Former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers pointed out the spending plan double-counts US$2trillion. But White House budget director Mick Mulvaney told reporters: “We stand by the numbers.”

• Thursday, May 25th 2017 - 10:00 UTC

  Canadian combat management systems for Chile's Type 23 frigates

  

  Lockheed Martin Canada will provide and install new combat management systems for three of the Chilean Navy’s frigates. The majority of the work will be done at Lockheed Martin Canada’s facilities in Ottawa, Montreal and Halifax. The combat management systems and other equipment will be installed on Chile’s Type 23 frigates.

• Thursday, May 25th 2017 - 09:50 UTC

  Falklands cemetery combatants identification: Red Cross delegation expected in Buenos Aires

  

  An advance mission from the International Committee of the Red Cross is expected in Buenos Aires next week to iron out details of the DNA process to be implemented for the identification of unknown Argentine combatants buried in the Falkland Islands at the Darwin cemetery. The news was advanced in the Buenos Aires media.

• Thursday, May 25th 2017 - 07:37 UTC

  Manchester terrorist´s family members arrested; search for support network in Europe

  

  The brother of Salman Abedi, the suspect accused of carrying out a bombing in Manchester, England, that killed 22 people, allegedly said he knew his brother was going to carry out an attack, but did not know where or when, according to a spokesman for Libya's counter terror forces.