Politics

• 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.

• Monday, November 28th 2011 - 17:06 UTC

  Argentina confirms high seas boarding of Spanish fleet fishing in Falklands

  

  The Argentine government has stepped up its official blockade policy against the Falkland Islands warning Spanish fishing vessels are operating ‘illegally’ in the South Atlantic, since they have not requested licences from the Argentine government, and controls over those activities will continue.

• Monday, November 28th 2011 - 14:35 UTC

  Developing meat export industry, top priority of Falklands’ Agriculture Department

  

  It is the generation of thirty-something who as children were the first to benefit from well-funded primary and secondary education following the Islands’ economic turn-around in the late 1980’s. They were the first generation of locally educated children who could graduate in careers of their choice.

• Sunday, November 27th 2011 - 08:11 UTC

  IMF chief praises Latinamerica, which can provide ‘some lessons to the advanced world’

  

  IMF chief Christine Lagarde who this week will be visiting Latinamerica said that Brazil, Mexico and Peru, like to many other countries in the region have done remarkably well over the past few years and can provide some lessons to the advanced countries.

• Sunday, November 27th 2011 - 08:07 UTC

  Lagarde leaves Argentina out of tour for not complying with understanding

  

  IMF chief specifically excluded Argentina from its coming Latinamerican tour because the government of President Cristina Fernandez still has to comply with what was agreed last July, basically normalizing the controversial INDEC stats office and open its books to auditing as happens with all other members of the G20.

• Sunday, November 27th 2011 - 05:49 UTC

  Surrounded by the Colombian Army, FARC kills four hostages and one escapes

  

  Colombia's FARC rebels have executed four hostages but a fifth hostage was found alive after escaping his captors, the defense minister said Saturday. The hostages had been held at a FARC encampment in the remote Solano region of southern Colombia.

• Sunday, November 27th 2011 - 02:12 UTC

  Amnesty demands action from the Brazilian government following killing of indigenous chief

  

  A deadly attack on an indigenous community in southern Brazil highlights the authorities’ failure to protect indigenous peoples amid ongoing land conflicts, Amnesty International said in an official release last Friday.

• Sunday, November 27th 2011 - 02:06 UTC

  Brazil’s Labour minister closer to the brink on further corruption accusations

  

  Brazil’s Labour minister Carlos Luppi is again under a barrage of accusations from the Sao Paulo press which could definitively make him the sixth toppled cabinet member in less than a year from the government of President Dilma Rousseff on charges of corruption.

• Sunday, November 27th 2011 - 01:01 UTC

  Peruvian peasants clash with police to protest against gold mine in the Andes

  

  Peruvian police fired tear gas on Friday to break up a protest at Newmont Mining Corp's proposed 4.8 billion dollars Conga gold mine as the government tried to mediate a bitter environmental dispute over the project. Several protesters were injured.