Politics

• Saturday, September 24th 2011 - 22:51 UTC

  Falklands Island’s reps get full Parliament experience

  

  Thoroughly aware of the sheer volume of work involved in politics at the recent Commonwealth Youth Parliament (CYP), Nadia Smith said such a high level career may not be for her just yet, “but there was a strong possibility the Falklands Legislative Assembly may beckon one day.”

• Saturday, September 24th 2011 - 22:22 UTC

  Human Rights Watch praises “critical” support from four Latam countries

  

  Four Latin American countries, Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Mexico, have been identified among the seven most important countries on the UN Human Rights Council, in a report by the Human Rights Watch organisation.

• Saturday, September 24th 2011 - 22:17 UTC

  The Medvedev-Putin teams hang on: next March they change posts

  

  Vladimir Putin declared he was ready to return to the Russian presidency after current head of state Dmitry Medvedev announced he would bow to his mentor at March's election.

• Saturday, September 24th 2011 - 21:50 UTC

  Abbas anticipates long debate in Security Council on Palestine UN membership

  

  Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said he expected the Security Council to finish debating his nation's application for full UN membership within weeks, not months.

• Saturday, September 24th 2011 - 00:50 UTC

  Israel and Palestinians told to resume peace talks within one month

  

  The Quartet of Middle East negotiators urged Israel and the Palestinians on Friday to resume peace talks within one month and aim for a deal by the end of 2012.

• Friday, September 23rd 2011 - 21:23 UTC

  Bolivia former anti-drugs chief sentenced in Miami to 14 years for trafficking

  

  A US federal judge in Miami on Friday sentenced the Bolivian former anti-drugs chief to 14 years prison on drug trafficking charges, court sources said. General Rene Sanabria, who was President Evo Morales's top anti-drug official 2007-2008, was arrested in Panama last February and extradited to Miami to face the charges.

• Friday, September 23rd 2011 - 21:09 UTC

  UN concern with Argentina’s “discriminatory attitudes” towards migrant workers and children

  

  The United Nations Committee on migrant workers expressed concern at Argentina’s “discriminatory attitudes” against citizens from African countries, particularly Senegal and neighbouring countries Bolivia and Paraguay.

• Friday, September 23rd 2011 - 19:53 UTC

  HMS Protector ready for Antarctica; no helicopter on maiden deployment

  

  Icebreaker HMS Protector, formerly MV Polarbjørn, has spent the spring and summer steadily being converted into a hydrographic survey ship to plug the gap left by HMS Endurance which nearly sank during a flooding incident in late 2008.

• Friday, September 23rd 2011 - 19:34 UTC

  HMS Edinburgh in her third Atlantic crossing heads for the Falklands

  

  HMS Edinburgh following a two-week maintenance stop in Cape Town, South Africa, is again crossing the South Atlantic to the Falkland Islands. This is the third crossing since the Type 42 destroyer left the UK.

• Friday, September 23rd 2011 - 15:58 UTC

  UK tells CFK “no Falklands’ sovereignty talks unless and until such time as Islanders so wish”

  

  “There can be no negotiations on the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands unless and until such time as the islanders so wish”, reaffirmed the UK delegation in an official statement in reply to remarks from the President of Argentina before the UN General Assembly.