Politics

• Tuesday, June 26th 2012 - 06:25 UTC

  US Supreme Court rules in favour of Argentina and unfreezes funds

  

  The US Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal by two US investment funds that seek to seize 105 million dollars of Argentina's central bank deposits in New York to satisfy their claims from the country's huge debt default a decade ago.

• Tuesday, June 26th 2012 - 06:14 UTC

  Argentine major gas field remains blocked by striking workers that rampaged control offices

  

  American Energy said on Monday it has been unable to regain access to a strategically important oil and gas field it operates in Argentina's Chubut Province because protesters are blocking the roads leading to it.

• Tuesday, June 26th 2012 - 04:36 UTC

  Bolivian police sixth day of mutiny: clashes between Morales supporters and strikers

  

  Rebel police clashed with pro-government supporters Monday outside Bolivia's presidential palace in the capital La Paz on the sixth day of a mutiny demanding better pay.

• Tuesday, June 26th 2012 - 04:13 UTC

  Mexican presidential front-runner ten points ahead for next Sunday’s election

  

  Mexican presidential front-runner Enrique Peña Nieto filled most of Latin America’s largest soccer stadium on Sunday for his last rally in the capital before the July 1 election, pledging to root out drug violence.

• Tuesday, June 26th 2012 - 03:54 UTC

  Arizona immigration law pruned but police can check status of “suspected illegals”

  

  The U.S. Supreme Court scaled back Arizona’s first-of-its-kind crackdown on illegal immigrants, striking down three provisions in a decision that asserts the federal government’s exclusive role to set immigration policy.

• Tuesday, June 26th 2012 - 01:36 UTC

  Uruguay will not support any kind of economic sanctions on Paraguay

  

  Uruguayan president Jose Mujica rejected on Monday the possibility of applying economic sanctions on Paraguay following on the “parliamentary coup” as was announced by Venezuela which decided to cut the supply of subsidized oil.

• Tuesday, June 26th 2012 - 01:33 UTC

  Mercosur and Unasur leaders to hold a joint discussion next Friday in Mendoza

  

  Chilean president Sebastián Piñera revealed that next Friday during the regular Mercosur summit, the leaders of Unasur member states are scheduled to hold an extraordinary meeting to jointly address the political crisis in Paraguay triggered by the removal of President Fernando Lugo.

• Tuesday, June 26th 2012 - 00:40 UTC

  Paraguayan Electoral tribunal confirms Franco president and the electoral calendar

  

  The Paraguayan Supreme Electoral tribunal said on Monday that President Federico Franco “must complete” the current mandate that concludes August 2013 and discarded any possibility of advancing the national elections scheduled for April the same year.

• Monday, June 25th 2012 - 20:46 UTC

  Spain formally request Euro zone rescue to recapitalize debt-laden banks

  

  Spain on Monday formally requested Euro zone rescue loans to recapitalise its debt-laden banks as the Euro and shares fell on investor scepticism about this week's EU summit.

• Monday, June 25th 2012 - 20:17 UTC

  Foreign Secretary wants hands-on relationship with Overseas Territories

  

  Early sight of the introduction to a consultative “white paper” about the future of Britain's relations with its overseas territories, suggests that the Foreign Office (FCO), and the Foreign Secretary William Hague in particular, want to have a closer “hands-on” relationship with the governments of the former colonies, now officially known as the overseas territories.