Politics

• Tuesday, May 5th 2015 - 06:41 UTC

  Brazil's Vale CEO becomes chairman of Petrobras board of directors

  

  The CEO of Vale SA Murilo Ferreira was voted Chairman of the Board of Directors at Petroleo Brasileiro Petrobras SA (ADR). The Rio de Janeiro-based oil corporation is the most indebted energy company in the world, and is battling to get its way around one of the biggest corruption and bribery scandal that has surrounded the company since October last year.

• Tuesday, May 5th 2015 - 06:34 UTC

  Brazil pledges rule changes to make oil exploration and production concessions more dynamic

  

  Brazil's government is discussing changes to its oil regulations but any new rules will not be in place before an October auction of exploration and production concessions, the country's energy minister Eduardo Braga said on Monday.

• Monday, May 4th 2015 - 20:12 UTC

  St Helena airport on track: runway 70% completed; grooving and sealing begins

  

  The government of the British Overseas Territory St Helena has given an update on the construction of the airport which is expected to become operational sometime in 2016, and which continues according to original plans.

• Monday, May 4th 2015 - 06:30 UTC

  Uruguay has the lowest corruption perception among Mercosur members

  

  Uruguay enjoys the lowest perception of corruption among Mercosur countries and also a privileged position at global level, according to the country's Transparency and Public Ethics Commission. The ranking was based on data from Transparency International and World Bank for the period extending from 2003 to 2014.

• Monday, May 4th 2015 - 06:07 UTC

  “Let Journalism Thrive”, says UN on Freedom of Expression Day

  

  Freedom of expression and press freedom are critical to the successful implementation of good governance and human rights around the world, top United Nations officials declared today as they inaugurated the 2015 edition of World Press Freedom Day with a reminder that both freedoms were “essential” for the shaping of a new global sustainable development agenda.

• Monday, May 4th 2015 - 05:56 UTC

  Argentina's Jewish community urges for Nisman's death inquiry to continue

  

  The president of Argentina's Jewish organization AMIA, president Leonardo Jmelnitzky urged for prosecutor Alberto Nisman´s suspicious death inquiry to continue, and pointed out that the institution is waiting for the confirmation of the unconstitutional nature of Iran´s Memorandum.

• Monday, May 4th 2015 - 05:37 UTC

  Falklands implements 'local content register' for companies to become suppliers of oil sector

  

  Falkland Islands are implementing the 'local content register' the process by which companies can be recognized as local and thus become suppliers for the oil and gas sector, which is expected to continue advancing following the current round of drilling and successful discovery announcements. A first company already registered last 7 April.

• Monday, May 4th 2015 - 05:26 UTC

  Royal family and grandparents visit the new princess at Kensington Palace

  

  British royal family members visited on Sunday the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's new baby daughter at Kensington Palace with the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall spent more than an hour with their new granddaughter. The Duchess of Cambridge's parents, Michael and Carole Middleton, and her sister Pippa also met the princess.

• Monday, May 4th 2015 - 05:19 UTC

  Falklands/Malvinas claim: “Argentina following on Ghandi's teachings”

  

  Argentina is following on Mahatma Gandhi's teachings or ahimsa (truth, love and fraternity) that brought independence to India, to claim the Falklands/Malvinas and other South Atlantic islands, said Daniel Filmus, head of the Malvinas Issues Desk in the Argentine foreign ministry during his latest incursion this time in Ethiopia.

• Sunday, May 3rd 2015 - 11:47 UTC

  Founding member resigns from Spanish anti-establishment party 'Podemos'

  

  One of the founder members of Podemos, the one-year-old leftist party that has up-ended Spanish politics, has resigned in a surprise move that questions its strategy just as opinion polls show it may have peaked.