Politics

• Saturday, February 27th 2016 - 03:37 UTC

  Malvinas' conscripts demanding war veteran certificates, complete eight years of encampment in Plaza de Mayo

  

  Eight Argentine former conscript soldiers have completed eight years running in a tent camp in Plaza Mayo, the heart of Buenos Aires City, demanding they be recognized as Malvinas war veterans since they argue, they were involved in defense and logistics duties along the Patagonia coast during the 1982 conflict with the United Kingdom.

• Saturday, February 27th 2016 - 01:15 UTC

  Argentina and Chile after friendly settlement over extradition of former guerrilla

  

  Argentina will seek a friendly settlement with Chile regarding the long-standing bilateral conflict over the extradition of Galvarino Apablaza before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR). Apablaza is accused of involvement in the murder of a conservative Senator and kidnapping of a newspaper executive.

• Friday, February 26th 2016 - 18:04 UTC

  Infantino elected president of FIFA, after a surprise win in two rounds

  

  FIFA elected on Friday Gianni Infantino to replace disgraced president Sepp Blatter in an unexpected turn of events. UEFA secretary general Gianni Infantino defeated expected frontrunner Sheikh Salman Bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa of Bahrain, former FIFA vice president Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein of Jordan and former FIFA executive Jerome Champagne.

• Friday, February 26th 2016 - 07:49 UTC

  IMF warns global economy has weakened and is highly vulnerable to adverse shocks

  

  The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said the global economy has weakened further and warned it was “highly vulnerable to adverse shocks” and the weakening has come “amid increasing financial turbulence and falling asset prices”.

• Friday, February 26th 2016 - 07:19 UTC

  Australian icebreaker stranded in Antarctica next to Mawson Station

  

  Freezing winds are continuing to hamper the rescue of 68 people from an Australian icebreaker ship stranded in Antarctica. Aurora Australis was on a supply mission to Mawson Station when it broke its mooring and ran aground in Horseshoe Harbour on Wednesday.

• Friday, February 26th 2016 - 07:05 UTC

  Britain protests 'provocative' incursion in Gibraltar waters by Spanish corvette

  

  Britain has protested to Spain after a Spanish warship “manoeuvred dangerously” during an incursion into British Gibraltar territorial waters, risking collision with a Royal Navy patrol boat.

• Friday, February 26th 2016 - 06:55 UTC

  Petrobras scandal becomes a mincing machine for the political system

  

  Petrobras corruption investigation keeps gobbling Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff former cabinet members, but also political figures from other leading political parties. On Wednesday the Supreme Court authorized formal investigations into Rousseff’s former chief-of-staff, as well as the mayor of the country’s largest city and an opposition senator, for potential corruption.

• Friday, February 26th 2016 - 06:08 UTC

  Macri and opposition governors will meet Pope Francis on Saturday

  

  Argentine President Mauricio Macri flew after midday to Rome ahead of Saturday’s meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican. Macri flew in an Alitalia commercial flight accompanied by his wife Juliana Awada, their small daughter Antonia and a small delegation of close aides and three provincial governors specially invited for the occasion.

• Friday, February 26th 2016 - 04:26 UTC

  World's eyes turn on Zurich as FIFA chooses president and hopefully a new era for the beautiful game

  

  The five contenders for the FIFA throne pitched the regional confederations in Zurich on Thursday in a last-ditch plea for votes in Friday’s election. Sheikh Salman, Gianni Infantino, Prince Ali, Jerome Champagne and Tokyo Sexwale made their appeals to CONCACAF, UEFA and Oceania congresses staged at various hotels in the Swiss city where Sepp Blatter’s successor will be 26 February.

• Friday, February 26th 2016 - 01:36 UTC

  “Falklands people voice must be heard”, says Uruguayan former president visiting the Islands

  

  Luis Alberto Lacalle, the Ex-President of Uruguay, is currently in the Falkland Islands on a week-long tour, along with Uruguayan Elected Representative Mario Jaime Trobo. Lacalle served as President from 1990 to 1995 and Trobo is presently a Member of the International Affairs Committee.