Politics

• Monday, January 9th 2012 - 06:51 UTC

  Iran’s Ahmadinejad begins Latam tour in Venezuela: meeting with Chavez

  

  Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez will welcome his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday on his first stop of a five-nation tour of Latin America, state media reported.

• Sunday, January 8th 2012 - 05:34 UTC

  Argentine “grandstanding” and acting illegally in the Falklands’ issue

  

  Argentina’s government is “grandstanding” and acting illegally in imposing a blockade on ships from the Falkland Islands, Henry Bellingham has claimed in an interview with the Lynn News from England.

• Sunday, January 8th 2012 - 05:31 UTC

  Excellent press and forecast for Falklands’ Rockhopper Exploration oil prospect

  

  Investment banking heavyweight Credit Suisse has initiated coverage of Rockhopper Exploration with a bullish assessment of prospects for the Falklands–focused firm, reports Proactive Investors UK.

• Sunday, January 8th 2012 - 05:29 UTC

  Brazil celebrates having achieved 2011inflation target, but it’s highest since 2004

  

  Brazil's government just met its inflation target for 2011, which was a surprise victory forPresident Dilma Rousseff and for a central bank that struggled for most of the year with rising food and commodities prices. However it is the highest inflation since 2004.

• Sunday, January 8th 2012 - 05:27 UTC

  Jamaica loves the Queen but “it’s time to move on” and become a republic

  

  Jamaica's new Prime Minister, Portia Simpson Miller, has said she intends to make the island a republic, removing Queen Elizabeth as the head of state. In her inaugural address, Ms Simpson Miller said the time had come for Jamaica to break with the British monarchy and have its own president.

• Sunday, January 8th 2012 - 05:23 UTC

  IMF says Euro will survive 2012; global growth forecast lowered

  

  The Euro is likely to survive 2012 despite the debt crisis in the Euro currency zone, according to International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde.

• Sunday, January 8th 2012 - 05:22 UTC

  Chavez names Defence minister Army officer described by the US as a “drug kingpin”

  

  Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez named as Defence minister General Henry Rangel Silva, who the United States has described as a “drug kingpin” linked to cocaine smuggling from neighbouring Colombia.

• Sunday, January 8th 2012 - 05:18 UTC

  Obama calls on US companies to ‘in-source’ jobs; unemployment falls to 8.5%

  

  President Barack Obama kicked off an effort to encourage US businesses to keep jobs at home instead of outsourcing them overseas, as he rolled out a new election-year theme aimed at courting middle-class voters.

• Sunday, January 8th 2012 - 05:16 UTC

  PM Cameron says shareholders should vote on bosses’ pay; end to “crony capitalism”

  

  Bosses' pay should have to be approved by votes among shareholders as part of efforts to restrain rising inequality Prime Minister David Cameron was quoted as saying in an interview with the Sunday Telegraph.

• Saturday, January 7th 2012 - 15:41 UTC

  Argentine president rests in Olivos residence; no cancerous cells detected

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernandez was discharged from hospital midday Saturday three days after surgery and following on the announcement that “medical tests have ruled out the presence of cancerous cells in her thyroid gland”.