Politics

• Thursday, August 25th 2011 - 06:33 UTC

  HMS Edinburgh visits South Georgia to test land and sea forces

  

  HMS Edinburgh visited this month South Georgia as part of her six-month South Atlantic and Falkland Islands duties which included training soldiers in a cold weather environment and give sailors the chance under such challenging conditions.

• Thursday, August 25th 2011 - 06:04 UTC

  Gibraltar territorial waters dispute postponed at least until after November

  

  Spain’s Foreign Minister Trinidad Jimenz has confirmed that there will be no further tripartite talks regarding Gibraltar whilst the dispute on issues related to sovereignty of Gibraltar territorial waters continues.

• Thursday, August 25th 2011 - 05:57 UTC

  Argentine organized labour leader stays on; claims “destabilizing campaign”

  

  Argentina’s Secretary General of the CGT Labour Confederation, Hugo Moyano, denied all rumours indicating his imminent departure from the CGT and attributed them to “a destabilizing media operation”. He added he was preparing to defend “workers’ minimum wage”.

• Thursday, August 25th 2011 - 00:15 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez among the 20 most powerful women in the world, says Forbes

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is the second most powerful Latinamerican woman in the world according to a ranking released by Forbes.

• Wednesday, August 24th 2011 - 23:22 UTC

  Savage infighting in Brazilian coalition exposes President Rousseff political weakness

  

  A Brazilian minister accused his own party of trying to destroy him and said he might not have enough support to continue in his job, raising the odds of yet another high-level departure from President Dilma Rousseff's beleaguered government.

• Wednesday, August 24th 2011 - 22:15 UTC

  Two-day strike takes off in Chile with Piñera increasingly debilitated

  

  The Chilean capital Santiago was witnessing another tumultuous day on Wednesday as protests started to sweep the nation’s capital and unions called for a two day nationwide shutdown to protest the educational system.

• Wednesday, August 24th 2011 - 07:28 UTC

  President Rousseff battles for cohesion in a disappointed ruling coalition

  

  Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff said on Tuesday that the two main parties of the ruling coalition, “PT (Workers party) and the PMDB (Brazilian Democratic Movement) are the basis of the stability and trust of the government”.

• Wednesday, August 24th 2011 - 07:26 UTC

  Impatient Raul Castro calls on Cubans “to clear our heads of ideological rigidity”

  

  Cuban President Raul Castro is increasingly impatient with the slow implementation of his economic reforms, which he publicly blames mostly on bureaucratic sloth and resistance to change.

• Wednesday, August 24th 2011 - 07:21 UTC

  Chavez only recognizes the Gaddafi government; accuses US of inciting civil war

  

  Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez said he will only recognize a Libyan government led by his friend and ally Muammar Gaddafi and accused the United States of inciting the country's civil war.

• Wednesday, August 24th 2011 - 07:10 UTC

  Strauss-Khan free but faces civil lawsuit and rape investigation case in France

  

  Former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Khan, no longer facing sexual-assault charges in New York for what one of his lawyers called “inappropriate behaviour,” remains a defendant in a civil lawsuit by his accuser and the subject of a French rape investigation.