Politics

• Tuesday, July 12th 2011 - 07:33 UTC

  “A majority (70%) of Buenos Aires City voters do not like to be blackmailed”

  

  Buenos Aires City Mayor, conservative Mauricio Macri said on Monday he was “really surprised” with the large margin victory obtained in the first round of his bid for re-election and considered the result “a good example of the voters’ independency, and how citizens can surprise with their decisions”.

• Tuesday, July 12th 2011 - 07:30 UTC

  Police reveal former PM Brown could have been victim of Murdoch’s tabloid

  

  Police have said that former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown may have been a victim of phone hacking by an investigator working for British newspapers, his spokeswoman said on Monday.

• Tuesday, July 12th 2011 - 07:23 UTC

  News of the World bought UK royal family details from police team, says BBC

  

  The News of the World newspaper bought contact details about the royal family from a policeman, the BBC reported today, deepening the scandal engulfing the News Corp media empire.

• Tuesday, July 12th 2011 - 07:15 UTC

  UK statements on the Malvinas issue are “ridiculous” says Cristina Fernandez

  

  President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner said that “Argentina is absolutely committed to peace” and dismissed as “ridiculous” statements from the United Kingdom threatening to use force if needed to preserver the occupation of the Falkland Islands.

• Tuesday, July 12th 2011 - 01:41 UTC

  Adopted heirs of Argentine media group test negative to first DNA tests

  

  DNA tests from the adopted children of one of Argentina's richest women do not match blood samples from two families who suspect the siblings were stolen as babies from political prisoners in the 1970s, legal sources said on Monday.

• Monday, July 11th 2011 - 23:50 UTC

  Falklands’ MLA Summers takes the oath: “a pleasure and a responsibility” to be back

  

  The Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly has eight members once again. Mike Summers, a veteran of Falklands’ affairs was sworn in as an MLA at an official ceremony held at Government House this Monday morning.

• Monday, July 11th 2011 - 18:12 UTC

  Euro-confidence crisis contagion reaches Italy and again attacks Spain

  

  European finance chiefs will consider how to dig Greece out of its financial hole just as markets batter the bonds of Spain and Italy, opening a new front in the debt crisis.

• Monday, July 11th 2011 - 08:05 UTC

  News of the World exits but the political consequences have just begun

  

  British government lawyers are drawing up a plan to block Rupert Murdoch's bid for the pay-TV operator BSkyB, the Independent newspaper reported on Monday.

• Monday, July 11th 2011 - 07:34 UTC

  Mayor Macri wins in Buenos Aires; confirms he’s the main opponent to the Kirchner plans

  

  Buenos Aires City Mayor Mauricio Macri took a 20-point lead on Kirchnerite mayoral candidate Daniel Filmus on Sunday’s election but none of the candidates managed to obtain more than 50% of the votes.

• Sunday, July 10th 2011 - 09:00 UTC

  “The News of the World” last mobile phone hacking message: “Thank You & Goodbye”

  

  The final edition of the paper engulfed in a phone hacking scandal was published today as Rupert Murdoch headed to London to try to save the bigger prize of his takeover of the British broadcaster BSkyB.