Politics

• Wednesday, June 20th 2012 - 06:37 UTC

  Uruguayan government takes over bankrupt airline from private investors

  

  The Uruguayan government has reassumed control of Pluna, the nation's flag carrier after the airline’s controlling shareholder Leadgate announced that it will withdrawal from the ownership structure of the company.

• Wednesday, June 20th 2012 - 06:33 UTC

  Wikileaks’ Assange holed in Ecuadorian embassy and asked for political asylum

  

  WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Tuesday walked into Ecuador's embassy in London and applied for political asylum in a sensational bid to avoid extradition to Sweden over alleged sex crimes.

• Wednesday, June 20th 2012 - 06:30 UTC

  Countries boost IMF emergency funding to 456 billion dollars

  

  Nations from around the world firmed up their commitments to provide emergency resources for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) designed to deter the spread of crises and increase the institution’s lending capacity to help countries in financial trouble.

• Wednesday, June 20th 2012 - 06:08 UTC

  Iranian president meets with Bolivia’s Morales reinforce cooperation deals

  

  Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stopped in Bolivia Tuesday en route to the Rio+20 summit in Brazil, to court support from another Latin American nation which has tense ties with the United States.

• Tuesday, June 19th 2012 - 23:36 UTC

  Peña Nieto comfortably ahead for July 1 Mexican presidential election

  

  Mexico's presidential front-runner Enrique Peña Nieto has maintained a wide lead over his rivals with less than two weeks remaining until the July 1 election, an opinion poll showed this week.

• Tuesday, June 19th 2012 - 23:06 UTC

  Chavez comfortably ahead of opposition candidate Capriles, show opinion polls

  

  Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez has a 16-percentage-point lead over opposition candidate Henrique Capriles ahead of an election in October, a new opinion poll showed on Tuesday.

• Tuesday, June 19th 2012 - 22:45 UTC

  Falklands at G20: brief exchange between Cameron and Cristina Fernandez

  

  UK PM David Cameron has refused to accept a letter from Argentina's president about her country's claim to the Falklands Islands. PM Cameron approached President Cristina Fernandez before the first session of the G20 summit in Mexico, No 10 said.

• Tuesday, June 19th 2012 - 06:59 UTC

  Brazil/Argentina agree G20 common position, but will wait to listen to Germany

  

  Brazil and Argentina agreed on Monday “to oppose any financial adjustment plan” and sponsor development and growth policies to face the world crisis, in the framework of the two-day G20 summit taking place in Mexico.

• Tuesday, June 19th 2012 - 06:55 UTC

  Chinese PM Wen Jibao to visit Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Chile

  

  Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao is to attend the upcoming UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) in Rio De Janeiro, and pay official visits to Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina and Chile from June 20 to 26, it was announced in Beijing the Foreign Ministry

• Tuesday, June 19th 2012 - 06:51 UTC

  Spain warns UN Decolonization Committee not to de-list Gibraltar

  

  Spain made a calm but classic contribution before the United Nations Decolonization Committee (C24) last week defending territorial integrity arguments but also warning the Committee not to de-list Gibraltar without sticking to the current UN criteria.