Politics

• Tuesday, September 11th 2012 - 06:21 UTC

  Gibraltar flag flies over the Foreign Office

  

  The Gibraltar flag can be seen flying over the Foreign Office in Whitehall, London on the part of the building overlooking Whitehall and Downing Street to celebrate Gibraltar Day, September 10.

• Tuesday, September 11th 2012 - 06:11 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez targets Argentines going abroad to contain outflow of dollars

  

  No end for the US dollar clamp in Argentina. According to the Buenos Aires media the government of President Cristina Fernandez is preparing a set of new measures to further limit Argentines from holding the US currency but also from spending abroad on tourism.

• Tuesday, September 11th 2012 - 06:03 UTC

  Falklands’ population 2.563 of which 75%, live in Stanley, according to April census

  

  The normal resident population of the Falkland Islands on Census Day (15 April 2012) was 2,841 according to the first results from the census published by the Falkland Islands Government and released on Monday.

• 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”.