Politics

• Saturday, January 21st 2012 - 05:34 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez rests in the Atlantic coast; medical leave ends next Tuesday

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernández, on medical leave, took her first trip following surgery earlier this month and is spending the weekend with her children Máximo and Florencia at the presidential summer residence of Chapadmalal.

• Friday, January 20th 2012 - 16:28 UTC

  Brazil plans to counter Argentina’s latest imports’ measures, if they affect trade

  

  Brazil has plans to counter the latest battery of trade restrictions which Argentina announced, if they turn out to the barriers for Brazilian exports, reported the influential Folha de Sao Paulo.

• Friday, January 20th 2012 - 15:15 UTC

  Buenos Aires reacts to Brazilian comments that Argentina is “a permanent problem”

  

  Reacting to Brazil’s trade minister Fernando Pimentel comments describing Argentina as “a permanent problem” Industry Minister Debora Giorgi said that “the trade balance reality between Argentina and Brazil does not warrant Pimentel's complaints”.

• Friday, January 20th 2012 - 14:45 UTC

  Falklands/Malvinas bilateral issue, but Islands are covered by EU as British OT

  

  The European Union considers that the new tense situation between Argentina and the UK over the Falklands/Malvinas Islands is a “bilateral issue”, however the Falklands figure under EU treaties as a British Overseas Territory, said the EU Foreign Affairs Representative spokesperson.

• Friday, January 20th 2012 - 08:19 UTC

  Falklands vessels can re-flag and operate in Mercosur ports, says Hague

  

  Ships from the Falkland Islands that are barred from ports in Argentina and other Mercosur trade bloc countries can re-flag as British ships at any time to avoid the ban, British Foreign Secretary William Hague told reporters in Rio de Janeiro on Thursday.

• Friday, January 20th 2012 - 07:58 UTC

  UK unemployment hits 2.69 million (8.4%), highest since January 1996

  

  UK unemployment rose by 118,000 in the three months to November to 2.69 million, official figures show. The Office of National Statistics (ONS) said the unemployment rate also rose to 8.4% from 8.3%, the highest since January 1996.

• Friday, January 20th 2012 - 07:47 UTC

  Murdoch’s group acknowledges covering up illegal tapping and destroying evidence

  

  The British newspaper arm of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp has acknowledged to victims that executives covered up the scale of illegal activity by destroying evidence and lying to investigators, victims' lawyers said.

• Friday, January 20th 2012 - 07:37 UTC

  Hague reaffirms sovereignty and values discussing Falklands self-determination with Brazil

  

  Foreign Secretary William Hague during a major speech on foreign policy in Brazil said that the UK will always uphold sovereignty over the Falkland Islands and the rights of the Islanders to self determination.

• Friday, January 20th 2012 - 07:24 UTC

  Sawle tells Argentina to leave the Falklands in peace and respect their right to self determination

  

  Britain nowadays is not a colonialist country and Argentina should leave the Falkland and its people in peace and respect their right to self determination, said Falklands elected member of the Legislative Assembly Dick Sawle quoted in the Argentine media.

• Friday, January 20th 2012 - 00:11 UTC

  Timerman: “Malvinas” strategy is working, not even English newspapers support Cameron

  

  Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman assured that Argentina’s strategy on the Malvinas Islands sovereignty claim “is working” and added that “the only way for England to get out of this mess is through direct negotiations with Argentina.”