Politics

Tuesday, May 10th 2011 - 09:25 UTC
President Correa’s victory margin in controversial referendum is narrowing

Ecuador's President Rafael Correa victory margin in Saturday’s ten question referendum on planned media, banking and judicial reforms has narrowed dramatically according to the latest figures released by the National Electoral Council.
Monday, May 9th 2011 - 19:12 UTC
Australia submits Japan’s Antarctic whaling program to the International Court

The Australian government filed a written submission at the International Court of Justice in Netherlands calling for an end to Japan's Antarctic whaling program on the grounds that it breaches the international ban on commercial whaling. Australia made the official presentation of its case Monday at the ICJ.
Monday, May 9th 2011 - 19:09 UTC
Brazil plans to send thousands of students to learn abroad on scholarships

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said that Brazil is the seventh economy in the world and announced that the government is to finance scholarships abroad. “We are the world’s seventh economy and this is due to the effort and sweat of those who made this country grow,” she claimed.
Monday, May 9th 2011 - 18:52 UTC
Cuban government plans to allow residents to travel abroad as tourists

The Cuban government said Monday that it plans to study ways to allow residents of the island to travel abroad as tourists, suggesting it will ease the bureaucratic hurdles and outright restrictions that prevent many residents from leaving.
Monday, May 9th 2011 - 06:40 UTC
Menem and former beauty queen are formally divorced

Former Argentine president Carlos Menem (1989/1999) and Chilean ex Miss Universe and CNN television presenter Cecilia Bolocco were formally divorced by a Buenos Aires court last week.
Monday, May 9th 2011 - 05:57 UTC
Second body recovered from Air France mid Atlantic wreckage

French police said a second body has been removed from the underwater wreckage of the Air France flight that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean nearly two years ago. A remote-controlled submarine raised a body that was still strapped into an airline seat some 3,900 metres to the water's surface Friday.
Monday, May 9th 2011 - 05:52 UTC
‘Informal’ talks with Spain to address Bay of Gibraltar incidents and Trilateral Forum

Gibraltar’s Chief Minister met ‘informally’ with President Rodriguez Zapatero’s top Moncloa official Bernardino Leon to seek ways of getting the tripartite (UK, Spain, Gibraltar) process back on its feet.
Monday, May 9th 2011 - 05:48 UTC
Argentina’s ‘Blond Death Angel’ faces life imprisonment for kidnapping and torture

A government lawyer called Friday for a life sentence for former Argentine naval officer Alfredo Astiz for crimes including the murder of two French nuns during the 1976-1983 dictatorship.
Monday, May 9th 2011 - 01:03 UTC
Buenos Aires mayor drops out from October presidential race

Mauricio Macri the conservative mayor of Buenos Aires City and one of the leading contenders for next October’s presidential election decided over the weekend not to challenge populist President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and instead will seek re-election to his post.
Monday, May 9th 2011 - 00:56 UTC
Landslide SNP victory: London will not block referendum on Scottish independence

UK government will not move to block a referendum on Scottish independence, the Secretary of State for Scotland Liberal Democrat MP Michael Moore has said adding constitutional questions raised about the rights or wrongs of holding a vote would not be raised.