Politics

Monday, September 19th 2011 - 20:36 UTC
Foreign Office to meet Rockhopper investors over Falklands oil plans

Britain will meet shareholders from explorer Rockhopper to discuss the Falkland Islands and the location for the company's proposed 2 billion dollars oil project based on recent discovery estimates.
Monday, September 19th 2011 - 16:49 UTC
Close ally of CFK re-elected by a landslide: “Cristina this triumph is also yours”

Jorge Capitanich, governor of the northern province of Chaco and a close ally of Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner was re-elected Sunday by a landslide difference of 30 points over his runner up.
Monday, September 19th 2011 - 16:41 UTC
Brazil reiterates it will defend recognition of a Palestinian state at the UN

Brazil will ‘defend’ the recognition of a Palestinian state during the coming United Nations General Assembly discussions, said President Dilma Rousseff’s international affairs advisor Marco Aurelio García.
Monday, September 19th 2011 - 06:52 UTC
Brazilian president first woman to open round of UN General Assembly speeches

Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff will become on Wednesday the first woman ever to open the round of speeches marking the beginning of the United Nations General Assembly, according to Brazilian sources.
Monday, September 19th 2011 - 06:48 UTC
UK to ensure Overseas Territories’ constitutional arrangements are “effectively working”

As a decade of British Overseas Territories’ constitutional revision is coming to a close the UK policy strategy is to ensure that constitutional arrangements are effectively working to be best interests of OT and the UK, announced Foreign Secretary William Hague this past week before the House of Commons.
Monday, September 19th 2011 - 06:43 UTC
Argentina is back in the international arena “with participation and leadership”

United Nations Argentine ambassador Jorge Argüello said that the isolation chapter is over, “Argentina is back in the international arena displaying participation and leadership”, something that will be clearly exposed by President Cristina Fernandez when she addresses the UN assembly this week.
Monday, September 19th 2011 - 06:41 UTC
CFK will demand Falklands/Malvinas sovereignty negotiations before UN assembly

Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner will be addressing the United Nations General Assembly next Wednesday when she is expected to renew sovereignty claims on the Falklands/Malvinas Islands and make strong statements regarding the dispute with Iran.
Monday, September 19th 2011 - 06:37 UTC
Strauss-Kahn resigns to politics; gives account of his “moral failing”

Dominique Strauss-Kahn admitted on Sunday his sexual encounter with a New York hotel maid constituted a “moral failing” toward his wife, his children and the French people, in his first public comments since an attempted-rape case led him to resign as International Monetary Fund chief and effectively annihilated his chances of becoming France's president next year.
Monday, September 19th 2011 - 06:27 UTC
Do only “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun”? Not in New York City!

We have come a long way since the days of the creation of the movie “The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert,” but the story still rings true today.
Saturday, September 17th 2011 - 07:25 UTC
Chilean mayor trip to the ‘Falklands’ causes major uproar in Tierra del Fuego

Tierra del Fuego provincial authorities in the extreme south of Argentina confirmed they would not be participating Sunday in Chile’s 201 independence anniversary in protest over statements from a local mayor who referred to the Malvinas Islands as Falkland Islands.