Politics

• Tuesday, November 29th 2011 - 05:53 UTC

  Markets react positively to talks for speeding the EU decision making process

  

  Germany and France stepped up a drive on Monday for intrusive powers to reject national budgets in the Euro zone that breach EU rules, as a market rout of European debt eased temporarily on hopes of outside help for Italy and Spain.

• Tuesday, November 29th 2011 - 05:51 UTC

  Venezuela catches major Colombian drug dealer and is ready to hand him to US

  

  Colombian drug kingpin with a 5 million dollars US price tag on his head has been arrested in Venezuela and is to be extradited to the United States to face trafficking charges, officials said.

• Tuesday, November 29th 2011 - 02:11 UTC

  Argentina’s Grondona admits having been accused more times than Al Capone

  

  Argentine football strongman Julio Grondona said he is fully recovered for his new mandate as head of AFA (Argentine Football Association) and also admitted “he has been accused more times than Al Capone’.

• Tuesday, November 29th 2011 - 02:09 UTC

  Fitch warns of US triple A rating downgrade if policy makers fail on budget cuts

  

  Fitch Ratings on Monday warned it may cut the United States' AAA rating if policymakers fail to agree in 2013 on a plan to reduce the country's ballooning budget deficits.

• Tuesday, November 29th 2011 - 02:05 UTC

  The only survivor of the FARC executions tells how he managed to escape

  

  When the shooting started, Police sergeant Luis Erazo scrambled into jungle canopy, the only escape from death as his Colombian guerrilla captors hurled grenades at him. Four fellow hostages were shot dead by the FARC.

• Tuesday, November 29th 2011 - 02:01 UTC

  Steven to FARC: “sirs you have cut my wings; you destroyed my hopes”

  

  Steven is the 13 year old boy of Colombian Army Sergeant Major Jose Libio Martinez who was never able to meet his father executed last Saturday by the FARC kidnappers who shot him in the head when surrounded by Colombian forces in the jungle.

• Monday, November 28th 2011 - 21:22 UTC

  Chile requests extension until 2020 to comply with antipersonnel mines clearance

  

  Chile formally requested Monday an extension until March 2020 to complete antipersonnel mines clearance particularly to the north and south of the country, during the meeting of the signatories and observers of the Ottawa Convention taking place in Phnom Penh, capital of Cambodia.

• Monday, November 28th 2011 - 21:04 UTC

  Brazil preparing stimuli plan to boost manufacturing and create jobs

  

  Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff said that the country’s economy which slowed down in the last quarter will retake growth and generate more jobs based on government plans to expand manufacturing.

• Monday, November 28th 2011 - 17:32 UTC

  Leisure year for Argentines: one off for every three working days in 2012

  

  This coming year Argentines will be resting more and working less, at an average of one day off for every three worked, according to the 2012 official national, civilian and religious festivities calendar released by the Ministry of Interior.

• Monday, November 28th 2011 - 17:17 UTC

  UK promotes Search & Rescue helicopter service to be provided by civilian crews

  

  The Department for Transport has started the procurement process for a new UK-wide Search and Rescue helicopter service to be provided by civilian crews, it has been announced.