Politics

Thursday, September 29th 2011 - 06:31 UTC
Divided German coalition votes to strengthen Euro support fund

Commodity prices fell and stocks ended a three-day rally on Wednesday on anxiety over a looming German vote to strengthen the fund set up to help the Euro zone combat its debt crisis.
Thursday, September 29th 2011 - 06:28 UTC
EC desperate call on the European Central bank to maintain financial stability

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso urged the European Central Bank to do everything in its power to maintain financial stability in the Euro zone, saying the EU faced the biggest challenge in its 50-year history.
Thursday, September 29th 2011 - 06:18 UTC
CFK: Argentina again has the technological and technical capacity to repair submarines

For the first time in twenty years, Argentina once again has the technological and technical capability to repair submarines, announced President Cristina Fernandez during a ceremony at the refurbished Naval Industrial Complex, CINAR, to celebrate the conclusion of repairs on a submarine and the recovery of an oceanographic research vessel.
Thursday, September 29th 2011 - 06:16 UTC
Bolivian will resume month-long protests against a road in the Amazon

Bolivian demonstrators opposed to the construction of a road in the Amazon vowed on Wednesday to resume a month-long protest march that has become a major challenge to leftist President Evo Morales.
Thursday, September 29th 2011 - 00:48 UTC
Raul Castro drops 50-year ban: Cubans allowed buying and selling cars

Cuba authorized auto sales among individuals Wednesday, easing a 50-year-old ban that has helped make the Castro brothers-ruled island a living museum of vintage cars.
Wednesday, September 28th 2011 - 23:42 UTC
Argentine minister and UK generals exchange blows on Faklands defence

“Force” and “defence budgets” are the only reason Great Britain can wield in support of the Malvinas Islands where “it holds 2.000 people hostage on Islands of Argentine sovereignty”, said Argentine Defence minister Arturo Puricelli.
Wednesday, September 28th 2011 - 15:39 UTC
Stronghold of the opposition falls to Cristina Fernandez in provincial election

Argentina’s latest provincial election, before the October 23 presidential ballot, was a landslide victory for Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner supported candidates and an end to 28 years of dominance by Argentina’s main opposition party in the Patagonia province of Rio Negro.
Wednesday, September 28th 2011 - 14:51 UTC
Obama proposes Roberta Jacobson for Western Hemisphere Affairs

US President Barack Obama suggested that acting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, Roberta Jacobson, be ratified in office, the White House announced.
Wednesday, September 28th 2011 - 10:22 UTC
Brazilian policemen arrested on suspicion of murdering anti-corruption judge

A senior Brazilian police officer has been arrested on suspicion of ordering the murder of a judge who investigated police corruption.
Wednesday, September 28th 2011 - 06:29 UTC
Chilean president support plummets; 67% “believe little or anything” Piñera says

A poll from the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Reality (CERC) released Tuesday confirmed that Chile’s beleaguered President Sebastián Piñera continues to lose popular support.