Politics

• Tuesday, August 28th 2012 - 04:13 UTC

  Despite Fukushima accident, 30 countries considering nuclear energy says IAEA

  

  Almost 30 countries are considering or planning to introduce nuclear energy as interest remains strong despite last year's Fukushima accident, the United Nations' atomic agency said.

• Tuesday, August 28th 2012 - 03:52 UTC

  Brazil’s defence industry booming and promoting projects with neighbours

  

  Brazil's defence industry is booming, fuelled by government incentives to modernize the country's armed forces and develop a robust, export-oriented military industrial complex. With the world's sixth largest economy, Brazil was ranked as the eighth largest arms exporter in the 1980s but currently languishes in 30th place, according to industry experts

• Tuesday, August 28th 2012 - 03:42 UTC

  Colombia and FARC ready for peace talks with support from Cuba and Norway

  

  Colombia's government will soon begin talks that could lead to formal negotiations for peace with the country's biggest guerrilla group, known as the FARC, according to a Colombian intelligence source.

• Tuesday, August 28th 2012 - 03:32 UTC

  Mexico launches dispute at WTO against Argentina’ import licensing rules

  

  Following similar complaints against Argentina by the European Union, United States and Japan, Mexico has launched its first dispute against Argentina at the World Trade Organization, the WTO announced on Monday.

• Tuesday, August 28th 2012 - 03:27 UTC

  “The Islands” inspired in the Falklands, a novel about Argentine lost dreams

  

  A novel ‘The Islands’ inspired by the Falkland Islands War and written by Argentine author Carlos Gamerro has been published in English.

• Monday, August 27th 2012 - 06:24 UTC

  The Argentine tax man reviewing football players transfers and contracts

  

  The head of Argentina’s tax office, AFIP Ricardo Echegaray announced in a press conference the agency had blocked the identification of 146 taxpayers connected to the football business. “We have to ensure football’s coherency and transparency” he remarked.

• Monday, August 27th 2012 - 06:05 UTC

  Ecuador receives full support from OAS Ministers in dispute with UK over Assange case

  

  The Foreign Ministers of the Organization of American States (OAS) approved last Friday a resolution supporting the inviolability of diplomatic premises, in accordance with the provisions of the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, in the context of the situation created between Ecuador and the United Kingdom.

• Monday, August 27th 2012 - 05:54 UTC

  Argentina wants to cut Falklands’ squid catches flooding the area with jiggers

  

  Argentina is planning the incorporation of Chinese jiggers to catch Illex squid next season, a decision rejected by the local fishing chambers but which according to the Buenos Aires financial media is linked to the sovereignty dispute over the Falkland Islands and surrounding waters.

• Monday, August 27th 2012 - 04:30 UTC

  Opinion poll shows Cristina Fernandez rapidly losing support; crime and inflation main concerns

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernández popularity sank to 30% in August, less than half of what it was a year earlier, according to a poll published on Sunday that portrayed a country worried about crime and high inflation.

• Monday, August 27th 2012 - 03:54 UTC

  UK/Ecuador defuse row, pledge commitment to diplomatic solution for Assange dispute

  

  Britain said it remained committed to reaching a diplomatic solution to the presence of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in Ecuador's London embassy, after both countries took steps to defuse a row over his action in taking refuge there.