Politics

• Tuesday, July 19th 2011 - 23:28 UTC

  UK outlines new foreign and defence policies based on ‘building stability overseas’

  

  The British Government published this week a new strategy outlining how the UK will promote stability and prosperity in countries and regions where its interests are at stake particularly though improved early warning and crisis prevention.

• Tuesday, July 19th 2011 - 23:22 UTC

  Chavez will run for re-election next year, despite cancer: “there’s no Plan B”

  

  Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez will run for re-election next year despite his struggle with cancer said Finance Minister Jorge Giordani who underlined there’s no Plan B. Giordani’s statement came as the populist leader is in Cuba undergoing chemotherapy and twitted to his compatriots his “insurmountable optimism”.

• Tuesday, July 19th 2011 - 23:18 UTC

  End of story: family confirms Chile’s former leader Allende committed suicide in 1973

  

  Experts examining the remains of former Chilean leader Salvador Allende ruled out murder in the Marxist president's 1973 death, concluding that he committed suicide as soldiers involved in a coup burst into the presidential palace, the late leader's daughter said Tuesday.

• Tuesday, July 19th 2011 - 17:20 UTC

  New alternative route to Antarctica in Chile to cut fuel and sailing hours

  

  A new alternative commercial route to Antarctica from the Chilean city of Punta Arenas avoiding the Beagle Channel and saving several hours sailing has been opened by the Chilean navy with the establishment of a state of the art lighthouse.

• Tuesday, July 19th 2011 - 13:22 UTC

  South Georgia set of stamps to celebrate marriage of Prince William and Kate

  

  A set of three stamps, a beautiful souvenir sheet-let and two first day covers will be released by South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on July 25th to mark the recent Royal Wedding, reports the June edition of the South Georgia Newsletter.

• Tuesday, July 19th 2011 - 05:12 UTC

  Paraguay wants Argentina to pay better prices for power from shared dam

  

  The presidency of the Paraguayan delegation at the Mercosur Parliament, Parlasur called on Argentina to improve the ‘reduced’ price it currently pays for surplus power from the shared hydroelectric dam of Yacyretá.

• Tuesday, July 19th 2011 - 05:06 UTC

  Parliament to question PM Cameron on links with the Murdoch empire

  

  British PM David Cameron cut short a trip to Africa and will fly home on Tuesday to defend himself from a scandal that has battered Rupert Murdoch's media empire, forced British police chiefs to resign and raised doubts about the prime minister's judgment.

• Tuesday, July 19th 2011 - 05:01 UTC

  Jewish community complains lack of progress in AMIA bombing investigation

  

  Seventeen years after 85 people died and hundreds were injured in Argentina's worst terrorist attack, their relatives criticized both Iran and their own government Monday for failing to solve the case.

• Tuesday, July 19th 2011 - 04:56 UTC

  Organized crime and authoritarian rulers, main threat for journalists in the Americas

  

  Organized crime and authoritarian governments have become the main enemies for freedom of expression in the Americas said Gonzalo Marroquin, president of the Inter American Press Association.

• Tuesday, July 19th 2011 - 02:13 UTC

  Coin recalls the centenary of the legendary “race to the South Pole”

  

  The centenary of the legendary ‘Race to the South Pole’ between Britain’s Robert Falcon Scott and Norway’s Ronald Amundsen is marked by a new SGSSI coin just released by Pobjoy Mint, announced the June edition of the South Georgia Newsletter.