Politics

Thursday, August 2nd 2012 - 07:08 UTC
Chilean opposition remains divided ahead of October municipal elections

Chilean opposition registered its candidates at the Electoral Service for the coming municipal elections in October but was unable to reach an overall agreement to face the ruling conservative parties.
Thursday, August 2nd 2012 - 07:04 UTC
Massive capital outflow in Spain: €163 billion left in five months

Capital outflows from Spain more than quadrupled in May to €41.3 billion compared with May 2011, according to figures released on Tuesday by the Spanish central bank. In the first five months of 2012, a total of €163 billion left the country, the figures indicate. During the same period a year earlier, Spain recorded a net inflow of €14.6 billion.
Thursday, August 2nd 2012 - 06:40 UTC
Swedish authorities turn down offer to question Assange in Ecuadorian embassy

Ecuador wants to prevent Julian Assange's extradition to Sweden because it is disappointed that the Scandinavian country has turned down an offer to question the WikiLeaks founder in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, a minister said on Wednesday.
Thursday, August 2nd 2012 - 06:34 UTC
India’s two power outage incidents in two days punished almost a billion people

New Delhi’s Metro shut down and hundreds of coal miners were trapped underground after three Indian electric grids collapsed in a cascade on Tuesday cutting power to 620 million people in the world’s biggest blackout.
Thursday, August 2nd 2012 - 06:25 UTC
Uruguay industries lobby questions the growing “political” predominance in Mercosur

The ‘new’ Mercosur with Venezuela as a full member reinforces the regional block as a forum of ‘political understanding’ and no longer as an integration process ruled by international law.
Thursday, August 2nd 2012 - 06:15 UTC
Argentina presents official protest to UK over Malvinas cemetery vandalism

The Argentine foreign ministry confirmed in a release that it had delivered an official protest to the United Kingdom repudiating “the profanation of the monument” in Darwin, Falkland Islands, to the memory of the Argentine combatants killed during the 1982 Malvinas war.
Wednesday, August 1st 2012 - 22:19 UTC
Namibia will supply cement for St Helena 300m dollars airport in South Atlantic

Namibian cement company Ohorongo cement has secured a three-year contract with construction firm Basil Read for the supply of cement for the building of a new airport on the British overseas territory of St Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean, over 1900km from the Namibian coast.
Wednesday, August 1st 2012 - 19:37 UTC
Venezuela’s Mercosur membership “null and void” says Paraguayan government

The Paraguayan government declared “illegal” and “null and void” the inclusion of Venezuela as a full member of Mercosur which was agreed on Tuesday during the extraordinary meeting held in Brasilia with the absence of Paraguay.
Wednesday, August 1st 2012 - 08:08 UTC
Dilma welcomes President Chavez to the world’s fifth economy

Brazilian president DIlma Rousseff said that with the incorporation of Venezuela, Mercosur has become a global power in food and energy and becomes the fifth world economy with a GDP of 3.3tn dollars.
Wednesday, August 1st 2012 - 08:03 UTC
US government ‘sovereign right’ blessing to Venezuela’s inclusion in Mercosur

The US government said that Venezuela as any other country has the “sovereign right” to join regional organizations such as Mercosur. The statement from the US State Department comes on the day that Mercosur officially incorporated Venezuela as full member of the block.