Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos announced he would redouble the military's offensive against Marxist-inspired, drugs financed FARC guerrillas after several attacks killed 40 police and military officers.
Brazil’s leading news magazine Veja accused presidential candidate Dilma Rousseff's former aide and current presidential chief of staff, Erenice Guerra, of involvement in a graft scheme.
Central bank governors and senior regulators have agreed new rules designed to prevent a repeat of the recent financial crisis. At a meeting in the Swiss city of Basle, they agreed a deal requiring banks to hold more capital in reserve.
Former Argentine president left Los Arcos hospital Sunday a few minutes after 20:00 hours next to his wife President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. A presidential press officer said the Argentine leader would be leaving at 23:00 hours given the “satisfactory evolution” of the emergency angioplasty he underwent Saturday night.
The US journalist Jeffrey Goldberg from The Atlantic magazine ratified his version of the interview with Fidel Castro, when he confessed that the Cuban model is no longer working, not even in the island, in spite of the Cuban leader attempt to amend his words.
Under the heading of “The United States and Latin America: Nobody’s backyard”, The Economist publishes one of its leading articles, supported by special pieces dedicated to the region’s potentialities, recent successes and shortcomings, mainly triumphalism and complacency.
“The challenge of sovereignty in small states” is the issue to be addressed by Falkland Islands member of the Legislative Assembly Dick Sawle at the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) meeting in Kenya.
The International Labour Organization (ILO) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are hosting a joint conference on 13 September in Oslo, Norway to explore new ways of generating jobs as part of a sustainable recovery from the global economic crisis.
US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has cut its forecast for global wheat production in 2010-11, but by less than expected. USDA now predicts total output of 643 million tonnes for the current agricultural year, down from its August forecast of 645.7 million.
China's trade surplus narrowed in August as imports picked up at a faster pace and exports slowed although not drastically, official figures showed on Friday. The data is likely to keep up pressure on Beijing to ease currency controls.