Politics

• Thursday, June 2nd 2011 - 04:36 UTC

  Honduras readmitted to OAS; only country to vote against was Ecuador

  

  The Organization of American States voted Wednesday to readmit Honduras into the regional body. Ecuador was the only country to vote against the measure, which was approved 31-1.

• Thursday, June 2nd 2011 - 03:54 UTC

  President Allende’s death “may not have been a suicide” suggests forensic expert

  

  Chile’s national television station TVN ran an investigative program on Monday night unveiling new evidence that former President Salvador Allende’s death may not have been a suicide, as previously believed

• Wednesday, June 1st 2011 - 17:37 UTC

  Brazil lawmakers comply with formality of approving Unasur charter

  

  Brazil’s Lower House passed on Tuesday the charter-treaty marking the foundation of the Union of South American Nations, Unasur, and the half approved bill now goes to consideration of the Senate.

• Wednesday, June 1st 2011 - 16:55 UTC

  Falklands marks 29th anniversary of June 14 liberation from Argentine occupation

  

  The Falkland Islands elected Legislative Assembly has announced the program to mark the anniversary of the liberation of the Falklands from Argentine occupation in 1982 which will take place next Tuesday14 June 2011.

• Wednesday, June 1st 2011 - 16:33 UTC

  Falklands Task Force flagship arrives to scrap-metal yard in Turkey

  

  HMS Invincible the flagship of the Task Force that recovered the Falkland Islands in 1982 and later served in Bosnia in 1995 and Iraq in 1998 and 1999 has reached her final resting place: a recycling yard in Aliaga, heart of the Turkey’s ship-breaking industry.

• Wednesday, June 1st 2011 - 16:31 UTC

  Gibraltar Opposition confirms it will attend the UN C24 meeting as petitioner

  

  Gibraltar Opposition Leader Fabian Picardo will head for New York later this month to address the United Nations Committee of 24 as part of the opposition GSLP/Liberal policy of continuing to ask the C24 to de-list British Overseas Territory and formally close the decolonisation process.

• Wednesday, June 1st 2011 - 10:33 UTC

  The unstoppable march of the tobacco giants

  

  By Emily Dugan - The following piece from The Independent on Sunday describes how in spite of the World NO tobacco Day (May 31) the industry ruthlessly exploits the developing world and makes huge profits even when smoking in the richer countries has been falling sustainedly.

• Wednesday, June 1st 2011 - 08:56 UTC

  Grondona: the only time I asked for something was for the English to return our Malvinas Islands

  

  Julio Grondona president of Argentina’s Football Association, AFA, and FIFA Vice-president strongly denied having been bribed to support Qatar World Cup bid in 2022 and said the only time he ever asked for something was when he told the English they could have his vote “if they returned what belongs to Argentina, the Malvinas Islands”.

• Wednesday, June 1st 2011 - 08:53 UTC

  Obama names businessman with impressive background new Commerce Secretary

  

  John Bryson from Kohlberg-Kravis-Roberts & Co and with an impressive business background has been nominated by President Barack Obama as next US Secretary of Commerce. He replaces Gary Locke but still must be confirmed by Congress.

• Wednesday, June 1st 2011 - 08:42 UTC

  Bolivia tells Iranian Defence minister to leave and apologizes to Argentina

  

  The Bolivian Government asked Iranian Defence Minister Ahmad Vahídi, accused by Argentina of masterminding the Buenos Aires AMIA terrorist attack in 1994, to leave the country after an Argentine attorney asked Interpol to arrest him, Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman said.