Politics

• Monday, February 6th 2012 - 06:46 UTC

  A majority of Germans feel Euro block would be better off without Greece

  

  The majority of Germans feel the Euro currency bloc would be better off if debt-crippled Greece left it, a poll published in mass-selling newspaper Bild am Sonntag showed.

• Monday, February 6th 2012 - 06:40 UTC

  Brazil sends elite force to quash police strikers entrenched in city of Salvador

  

  Troops locked down the northeast Brazilian city of Salvador on Sunday as an elite unit prepared to besiege the legislature and arrest armed police officers whose strike action has sent homicides spiralling.

• Monday, February 6th 2012 - 06:37 UTC

  Queen begins celebration of the 60th anniversary of her accession to the throne

  

  Queen Elizabeth II has said she is dedicating herself “anew to your service”, as she marks the 60th anniversary of her accession to the throne. In a message, she also said she felt “deeply moved” by the support shown for her Diamond Jubilee.

• Sunday, February 5th 2012 - 07:55 UTC

  Crime rate soars in Brazilian state of Bahia on fifth day of police strike

  

  The murder rate in Brazil’s northeastern state of Bahia has soared during a state police strike that on Saturday entered its fourth day. The state’s Public Safety Department says on its website that 51 people have been murdered in and near the capital city of Salvador since the strike began on Wednesday.

• Sunday, February 5th 2012 - 07:26 UTC

  Malvinas conflict is diplomatic: “unnecessary ostentation of firepower” from UK

  

  Argentine Defence minister Arturo Puricelli described UK’s announcement to send state of the art and latest incorporation to the Royal Navy HMS Dauntless, and according to the London press a nuclear powered submersible, to the disputed Falklands/Malvinas Islands as “an unnecessary ostentation of fire power”

• Saturday, February 4th 2012 - 17:25 UTC

  Flight Lt. Wales takes up his duties in the Falkland Islands

  

  Flt Lt Wales has commenced his duties as an RAF Search and Rescue (SAR) helicopter pilot in the Falkland Islands providing Search and Rescue cover for both the civilian and military population.

• Saturday, February 4th 2012 - 05:37 UTC

  PM Cameron meets Obama in March ahead of the Falklands conflict anniversary

  

  British Prime Minister David Cameron and US President Barack Obama will meet in Washington next month, three weeks before the 30 anniversary of the beginning of the Falklands conflict.

• Saturday, February 4th 2012 - 05:35 UTC

  Argentina organized labour leader again blasts the government

  

  The Argentine organized labour CGT umbrella union leader Hugo Moyano once again blasted the government insisting he doesn’t understand the “fine-tuning” metaphor that President Cristina Fernández used to refer to subsidy cuts.

• Friday, February 3rd 2012 - 23:13 UTC

  ALBA summit takes off celebrating a frustrated 1992 military coup by Chavez

  

  Cuban president Raul Castro arrived on Friday to Caracas for the XI summit of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Peoples of America, ALBA, and to participate in the celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the frustrated military coup by then a young Lieutenant Colonel Hugo Chavez, currently Venezuelan president.

• Friday, February 3rd 2012 - 23:11 UTC

  Bolivian government promises neighbouring countries to return thousands of stolen cars

  

  The Bolivian government promised to call the ambassadors from neighbouring countries to define a legal framework that allows the devolution of thousands of cars stolen in their countries and which found their way to the landlocked country.