Politics

• Saturday, October 22nd 2011 - 04:26 UTC

  CFK poised for landslide victory and control of the congress on Sunday

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez (CFK) should be comfortably re-elected Sunday with a landslide victory which according to the latest public opinion polls indicate a support ranging from 52% to 55%

• Saturday, October 22nd 2011 - 04:23 UTC

  Bolivia’s Morales yields to Amazon Indian protests and scraps plan to build highway

  

  President Evo Morales said Friday that he was scrapping plans to build a highway through a nature reserve in Bolivia's jungle lowlands, bowing to public pressure after a two-month protest march by Amazon Indians.

• Saturday, October 22nd 2011 - 00:43 UTC

  Mercosur and EU will be ready to exchange trade proposals ‘in June 2012’

  

  Mercosur and the European Union are committed to presenting their proposals with list of products for a free trade agreement in June 2012, announced on Friday Uruguay’s Foreign Affaire minister Luis Almagro.

• Saturday, October 22nd 2011 - 00:42 UTC

  Doctor who warned of Chavez serious health condition abandons Venezuela with his family

  

  The Venezuelan doctor who forecast President Hugo Chavez had two years left because of the aggressiveness of his pelvic cancer said on Friday he had left the country with his family after colleagues reported police visiting his consultancy.

• Saturday, October 22nd 2011 - 00:40 UTC

  Blatter announces anti-corruption plan and ‘good governance committee’

  

  FIFA president Sepp Blatter announced his long-awaited anti-corruption plan Friday including a pledge to re-open the case into the collapse of former marketing partner ISL.

• Saturday, October 22nd 2011 - 00:39 UTC

  France and Germany debt crisis rift; program for a second Euro summit

  

  France's push to use more European Central Bank money to fight the Euro zone debt crisis has run into strong resistance from Germany and other EU partners, leaving Paris increasingly isolated before a crucial summit.

• Saturday, October 22nd 2011 - 00:38 UTC

  NATO seven-month ‘United Protector’ campaign in Libya comes to an end this month

  

  NATO plans to end its seven-month air and sea campaign in Libya at the end of October, Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Friday, the day after the death of Muammar Gaddafi.

• Saturday, October 22nd 2011 - 00:37 UTC

  Obama announces end of war in Iraq and will pull out troops by end of the year

  

  President Barack Obama vowed to pull all US troops from Iraq this year, symbolically ending the war but dashing US hopes of leaving a few thousand troops to buttress a still shaky Iraq and offset neighbouring Iran's influence.

• Saturday, October 22nd 2011 - 00:36 UTC

  Sarkozy promises ‘unfaltering support’ to Spain to ensure peace in Basque country

  

  France's President Nicolas Sarkozy congratulated Spain on Friday for the Basque separatist group ETA's ceasefire, branding it a “victory for democracy over violence”.

• Friday, October 21st 2011 - 08:35 UTC

  In Uruguay we have learnt to bury the old economic paradigms, says Mujica

  

  Uruguay’s strategy is to attract foreign private investors and offer the necessary guarantees to develop their business, said President Jose Mujica in a brief summary of his ten day European visit of four countries and the headquarters of the European Union in Brussels.