Politics

• Tuesday, September 11th 2012 - 05:58 UTC

  Ex Argentine vice-president to head observers mission to Venezuela elections

  

  Former Argentine Vice-president Carlos ‘Chacho’ Alvarez was chosen as head of the Electoral Observers mission that Unasur will be sending to Venezuela for the coming presidential elections on October 7.

• Tuesday, September 11th 2012 - 05:19 UTC

  Air carrier HMS Ark Royal sold for scrap metal for £ 3 million

  

  Aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal is being sold for £3m for scrap metal by the Ministry of Defence to help tackle a multi-billion pound defence deficit. The removal of the Royal Navy's former flagship from service in 2011, five years early, was a “difficult but necessary decision”, the MoD has said.

• Tuesday, September 11th 2012 - 05:14 UTC

  Argentine August ‘non-official’ inflation index marks 1.9% and 24.23% in twelve months

  

  Argentina’s August inflation index based in the analysis of nine private agencies and released by Congressional members from the opposition climbed 1.9% against the previous month, the highest in the last four months.

• Tuesday, September 11th 2012 - 03:57 UTC

  Brazilian population increases “one Uruguay” in two years, and totals 194 million

  

  The Brazilian population amounts to 193,946,886 people, according to estimates from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), based on the 2010 Census, as released in Brasilia last week.

• Monday, September 10th 2012 - 05:33 UTC

  Mexican president says some Latam countries are losing the democracy battle

  

  Democracy is in retreat in some Latinamerican countries warned the Mexican president Felipe Calderon in the Russian city of Vladivostok where he attended the APEC summit forum, (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation).

• Monday, September 10th 2012 - 05:29 UTC

  In spite of God and Cristina, several Argentine governors teaming up as an option

  

  Cordoba’s governor picked up the glove and replied to Argentine President Cristina Fernandez statements on God and fear arguing that God cannot be feared; I learned not to fear God or any other kind of governing body, however powerful they are”.

• Monday, September 10th 2012 - 01:39 UTC

  Rio police begins to use drones to control drugs and crime in the city’s shanty towns

  

  A battalion of Special Forces (BOPE) from the Brazilian city of Rio do Janeiro started using unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones to air monitor the drugs trade and gangs in shanty towns surrounding the “marvellous city”.

• Monday, September 10th 2012 - 01:35 UTC

  Soros calls on Germany “to lead or leave the Euro”; suggests Euro zone target of 5% growth

  

  International financier George Soros has called for Germany to “lead or leave the euro” days before a crucial ruling on the Euro zone's bailout fund by Germany's constitutional court. Mr Soros argued that the euro zone should target 5% economic growth.

• Monday, September 10th 2012 - 01:30 UTC

  Mexican political turmoil: opposition leader Lopez Obrador decides to create his party

  

  Mexican opposition leader Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who twice contested second-place losses in presidential elections, said he would leave his coalition, a move that threatens to create a rift among leftists in Congress.

• Monday, September 10th 2012 - 01:25 UTC

  Foreign Office flies Gibraltar flag on Rock’s Day; last June 14 it was the Falklands’ flag

  

  The Foreign Office will fly the Gibraltar flag on Monday, National Day in its building along Whitehall. Foreign Office ministers David Lidington and Mark Simmonds, respectively the ministers for Europe and the Overseas Territories, have said they welcome the raising of the Gibraltar Flag over the FCO in Whitehall to mark Gibraltar Day.