Politics

• Thursday, September 26th 2013 - 05:56 UTC

  Chilean Army Commander in Chief on an official visit to United Kingdom

  

  Chile’s Commander in Chief of the Chilean Army General Juan Miguel Fuente-Alba was in the UK for an official visit to strengthen links between the British and Chilean armies.

• Thursday, September 26th 2013 - 05:32 UTC

  Maduro skips UN speech alleging ‘two highly serious provocations’ against his life

  

  Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said Wednesday he had scrapped his plan to take part in the UN General Assembly in New York to “protect my life” after purported threats on it. Just back from a visit to China Maduro said that on a layover in Vancouver he received intelligence on what he said were “two highly serious provocations”, which prompted him to scrap his UN trip.

• Thursday, September 26th 2013 - 05:28 UTC

  EU team begins collecting data on Spain/Gibraltar border crossing row

  

  A team of European Union inspectors are visiting Gibraltar to investigate a border row that has caused diplomatic tensions between the UK and Spain. London and British Overseas Territory Gibraltar complained to the EU that Spain's over-zealous checks on border traffic were holding up workers and tourists. Spain accuses Gibraltar of not doing enough to combat cigarette smuggling.

• Thursday, September 26th 2013 - 05:25 UTC

  Unasur will attempt to name a Secretary General on Friday in New York

  

  South American foreign ministers are scheduled to meet next Friday in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly to decide the name of the next Unasur secretary general, according to an official release from the main office in Quito.

• Wednesday, September 25th 2013 - 08:05 UTC

  Regulating financial markets is a human rights issue, claimed Cristina Fernandez

  

  In her speech to the 68th United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday Argentine President Cristina Fernandez stressed that regulating the financial markets is a human rights issue and claimed that Argentina has been a repeat victim of shady financial entities such as the 'vulture funds', despite having repeatedly proved it is prepared to honour debt commitments.

• Wednesday, September 25th 2013 - 08:02 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez trusts Teheran and hopes for cooperation in the AMIA case

  

  President Cristina Fernandez during her speech to the UN General Assembly said she hoped that the new Government in Iran would cooperate with Argentina in relation to the clarification of the attack on the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (AMIA) in Buenos Aires in 1994.

• Wednesday, September 25th 2013 - 06:28 UTC

  Malvinas militarization and UK nuclear subs in South Atlantic protests Cristina Fernandez

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernández used Tuesday’s speech in before the UN General Assembly to once more criticize British military movements in the South Atlantic, condemning the use of nuclear submarines around the disputed Falklands/Malvinas Islands.

• Wednesday, September 25th 2013 - 06:21 UTC

  Pope Francis strong message on World Day of migrants and refugees

  

  Pope Francis urged countries to welcome and respect migrants and refugees and not to treat them as “pawns on the chessboard of humanity”. Francis, who has made the defence of the poor and vulnerable a cornerstone of his papacy, said in a message for the World Day of Migrants and Refugees that there should be a change in attitude on the part of host countries.

• Wednesday, September 25th 2013 - 06:14 UTC

  Mujica blasted consumerism and called for political heads to rule the globalized world

  

  In a fiery speech before the UN General Assembly, Uruguayan president Jose Mujica criticized consumerism and waste, electronic surveillance which ‘poisons’ relations among nations, called for a true globalization and blasted individual greed which has “far outstripped the superior greed of the human specie”.

• Wednesday, September 25th 2013 - 05:40 UTC

  Rousseff implicitly accuses the US of breach of international law and calls for UN regulation of internet

  

  Addressing the United Nations General Assembly Brazilian President Dilma Roussef claimed that spying in the lives and affairs of other countries is a breach of international law and urged the United Nations to play a leading role in protecting Internet users from illegal interception of communications and data, and decried recent allegations of electronic information spying as “serious violations of human rights”.