Politics

• Wednesday, January 4th 2012 - 22:55 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez undergoes full thyroidectomy with “no complications”

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernandez thyroid cancer surgery was completed with “no inconveniences or complications”, said the official medical release signed by the intervening specialists, adding that a full thyroidectomy was practiced.

• Wednesday, January 4th 2012 - 18:21 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez confirms top commanders but purges 36 military brass

  

  Hours before undergoing surgery Argentine President Cristina Fernandez purged 36 members of the military brass in the wake of the recent dismissal of the Navy commander amid a domestic-spying scandal.

• Wednesday, January 4th 2012 - 15:50 UTC

  Falklands’ “land release” demining phase begins next week with 18 Zimbabweans

  

  The team from BACTEC International Ltd that will be carrying out the second phase of the demining pilot project is in the Falklands are in the Islands and will look to release significant areas of land behind the Stanley Common fence to the South-west of the capital.

• Wednesday, January 4th 2012 - 14:42 UTC

  The Falklands, like a duck in basket

  

  Penguin News Deputy Editor John Fowler explains it from the point of view of the people that actually matter - the Islanders.

• Wednesday, January 4th 2012 - 06:18 UTC

  CFK undergoes thyroid surgery; well-wishers camp next to hospital

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez on Tuesday rested at home on the eve of scheduled surgery for thyroid cancer, less than three months after being re-elected in a landslide.

• Wednesday, January 4th 2012 - 05:50 UTC

  Iran’s president adds Guatemala to his tour of four Latin American countries

  

  Iran’s President Mahmud Ahmadineyad who is scheduled to begin next week a tour of several Latin American countries will also be attending the inauguration of Guatemalan president Otto Perez next 14 January according to future Foreign Affairs minister Harold Caballerso.

• Wednesday, January 4th 2012 - 05:31 UTC

  HMS Protector ‘complies with all requirements’ to operate from Montevideo

  

  Uruguay authorized the Royal Navy Ice Patrol HMS Protector into Montevideo because it complies with normal procedure in spite of the fact that its next port of call is Stanley in Falklands/Malvinas.

• Wednesday, January 4th 2012 - 05:27 UTC

  Greece admits it is closer to be forced out of the Euro zone

  

  Greece faces an exit from Europe's common currency block unless it clinches a deal on a second 130 billion Euro bailout with its international lenders, a government spokesman said on Tuesday.

• Wednesday, January 4th 2012 - 05:23 UTC

  German miracle, unemployment falls to its lowest since December 1991

  

  German unemployment fell to its lowest rate in December since 1991, according to the German Federal Labour Agency.

• Tuesday, January 3rd 2012 - 04:56 UTC

  Argentina recalls 1833 Malvinas ‘dislodgement’ and demands bilateral dialogue

  

  Argentina ratified Tuesday its ‘imprescriptible” sovereignty rights over the Malvinas, South Georgia, South Sandwich Islands and adjoining maritime spaces and blasted the UK for not abiding by UN resolutions calling for bilateral talks.