Politics

• Wednesday, December 14th 2011 - 16:29 UTC

  Duke of Kent to visit Falklands to mark Queen Elizabeth II diamond jubilee

  

  Britain's royal family will tour the globe next year to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II diamond jubilee marking 60 years on the throne, Buckingham Palace announced on Wednesday.

• Wednesday, December 14th 2011 - 04:14 UTC

  Latam “progressive” countries openly supported tyrants despised by ”Arab Spring”

  

  The so called ‘progressive’ Latin American governments not only did they not support the revolution wave later known as the “Arab Spring” but openly and repeatedly backed the regimes against which the peoples of those countries rebelled.

• Wednesday, December 14th 2011 - 04:11 UTC

  Argentine organized labour leader challenges CFK with massive political rally

  

  A few hours before Truckers’ Day to be celebrated at a soccer stadium and in the midst of the dispute with the Argentine government, the leader of organized labour CGT, Hugo Moyano again challenged President Cristina Fernandez saying that inflation to discuss wages is that of the supermarkets.

• Wednesday, December 14th 2011 - 04:02 UTC

  US tries to re-establish full relations with Ecuador, Bolivia and Venezuela

  

  United States continues to dialogue with Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador, countries where it has no ambassadors in an attempt to normalize relations, said State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland.

• Wednesday, December 14th 2011 - 03:56 UTC

  Argentine November inflation 1.44% and 22.63% in eleven months, say lawmakers

  

  Argentine Lower House opposition lawmakers announced on Tuesday that inflation in November had reached 1.44%, accumulating so far this year, 22.63%. The so called ‘Congressional index’ is an average of the estimates from private consultants who face heavy fines if they make public their numbers.

• Wednesday, December 14th 2011 - 03:50 UTC

  Brazil sending overseas 100.000 graduates on scholarships to the best universities

  

  Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff announced the country would invest 2 billion dollars in a scholarship program to send overseas to the best world universities, 100.000 graduates.

• Tuesday, December 13th 2011 - 23:39 UTC

  US prosecutors charge former Siemens executives for paying bribes in Argentina

  

  United States prosecutors charged eight former Siemens AG executives with paying 100 million dollars in bribes for more than a decade to Argentina officials to help win a one billion dollars contract to produce national identity cards.

• Tuesday, December 13th 2011 - 23:33 UTC

  Fed anticipates exceptional low level rates at least through mid 2013

  

  The Federal Reserve on Tuesday made no changes to its interest rate policy but left the door open for further monetary easing next year depending on the impact of strains in the global financial markets (Europe’s debt problems).

• Tuesday, December 13th 2011 - 23:21 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez advances visit to Chile from September to January 25/26

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernández will make an official visit to Santiago to meet with her Chilean counterpart, Sebastián Piñera at the end of January next year, it was announced Tuesday.

• Tuesday, December 13th 2011 - 16:24 UTC

  Controversial plan to excavate Falklands’ conflict battlefields

  

  A television archaeologist has revealed plans to excavate the battlefields of the 1982 Falkland Islands conflict. The initiative belongs to Glasgow University academic Dr Tony Pollard who is preparing the major project.