Politics

• Wednesday, September 21st 2011 - 05:36 UTC

  Ecuadorian high court upholds ruling sentencing journalists to prison and fines

  

  An Ecuadorian appeals court has upheld criminal libel convictions and three-year prison sentences for three newspaper directors and a former editorialist over a column that called populist President Rafael Correa a dictator.

• Wednesday, September 21st 2011 - 05:25 UTC

  Obama and Rousseff address world crises and pledge new talks before G20 meeting

  

  The world crisis was the main issue addressed by Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff during the bilateral meetings with US President Barack Obama and later with her peer Mexico’s Felipe Calderon in New York.

• Wednesday, September 21st 2011 - 05:13 UTC

  End of ‘don’ ask, don’t tell’: gays can serve openly in the US military.

  

  President Barack Obama hailed the end of the policy banning gays from serving openly in the US military, saying its official demise marked a key step toward fulfilling America's founding ideals.

• Wednesday, September 21st 2011 - 01:58 UTC

  “The Tigers”: from Buckingham Palace changing the guard to the Falklands

  

  Soldiers from the Portsmouth area have swapped Royal duties for freezing Falkland Islands training reports the Portsmouth media. Up to 120 members of the 2nd Battalion Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment have travelled the 8,000 miles south from London to the Falkland Islands.

• Wednesday, September 21st 2011 - 00:41 UTC

  Mercosur coordinating temporary tariff mechanism to defend home markets

  

  Mercosur coordinators are holding meetings in Montevideo to decide on a mechanism for temporary increases of national tariffs besides those already implemented under the common external tariff for the group.

• Tuesday, September 20th 2011 - 09:03 UTC

  Brazil deploys 7.000 troops along southern borders to combat organized crime

  

  The Brazilian government displayed this weekend thousands of troops with air support along the borders with Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay in a concerted effort to combat organized crime.

• Tuesday, September 20th 2011 - 08:58 UTC

  Five Uruguayan marines sentenced to jail for ‘gross misconduct’ in Haiti

  

  Five Uruguayan marines from the UN peacekeeping mission in Haiti accused of abusing a young Haitian were sentenced to jail by military justice for serious misconduct and omissions while on duty.

• Tuesday, September 20th 2011 - 08:42 UTC

  ‘Falklands Sea’ could fall hostage to South Korea/Japan sea names dispute

  

  South Korea is considering using the Argentine name for waters around the British-Overseas Territory Falkland Islands, in retaliation for Britain's refusal to use Seoul's name for the sea off the east of the Korean peninsula, according to Seoul newspaper reports

• Tuesday, September 20th 2011 - 00:58 UTC

  Hundreds of brooms in Rio’s beaches to protest Brazilian rampant corruption

  

  A total of 594 brooms representing Brazil’s 81 senators and 513 members of the Lower House have been planted in the famous Copacabana beach of Rio do Janeiro by a non government organization demanding for action against rampant corruption.

• Monday, September 19th 2011 - 23:14 UTC

  Argentina and China agree on tax transparency and exchange information

  

  Argentina and China launched an agreement to exchange tax information involving physical persons, business associations, trust funds, foundations and any entity liable of fiscal responsibility.