Politics

Thursday, July 28th 2011 - 06:27 UTC
China, Japan, UK, oil countries and Brazil, top holders of US Treasury bonds

While US politicians remain divided on how to raise the government's ability to borrow, with a key deadline less than a week away, how is the current 14.29 trillion dollars in federal debt split, according to stats from the Treasury Department?
Thursday, July 28th 2011 - 06:22 UTC
The US government debt ceiling: what did Eisenhower do back in 1953?

Should the US follow the example of President Dwight Eisenhower back in 1953, asks Alex J Pollok, resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and Anne Canfield president of Canfield & Associates, Washington, D.C. in an article published in The American Journal of the AEI.
Thursday, July 28th 2011 - 06:19 UTC
Lower House to vote on (doomed) Republican proposal to raise US debt ceiling

US House of Representatives speaker John Boehner is urging Republicans to back his plan to cut the US budget and raise the debt limit. Boehner's appeal to conservative House Republicans came despite a White House veto threat and rejection from Democratic leaders in the Senate.
Thursday, July 28th 2011 - 06:15 UTC
UK to cooperate with Bolivia in the fight against drug trafficking

The British government has announced a new co-operation deal with Bolivia in the fight against drug trafficking. During a two-day visit to Bolivia, Britain's Minister for Latin America, Jeremy Browne, said the Serious Organised Crime Agency in London will join forces with the counter-narcotics police in La Paz.
Thursday, July 28th 2011 - 00:46 UTC
Spain has a “fluid dialogue” with UK on Gibraltar, says Rodriguez Zapatero

President Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said Wednesday in London Spain has a “fluid dialogue” with Britain in relation to the future of Gibraltar and anticipated fresh contacts “to maintain the spirit of constructive dialogue that we want”.
Wednesday, July 27th 2011 - 04:54 UTC
Argentina confident negotiations on Malvinas question ‘will take place’

Britain can’t go on shielding behind its membership of the UN Security Council to avoid dialogue on the Falklands/Malvinas question, but Argentina is confident “negotiations will take place” said Foreign Affairs minister Hector Timerman in Paris following a meeting with his French peer Alain Juppé.
Wednesday, July 27th 2011 - 04:16 UTC
ECLAC honours Uruguayan economist and banker Enrique Iglesias

The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, ECLAC, held a ceremony in its Santiago de Chile headquarters to honour Enrique Iglesias, the Uruguayan economist who was executive secretary of the commission from 1972 to 1985 and is currently, Secretary-General of the Ibero-American Secretariat.
Wednesday, July 27th 2011 - 03:59 UTC
“Dilma is completely able of running the country”, says Lula da Silva

Brazilian former president Lula da Silva criticized rich countries for their roll on the current economic crisis that has been changing the world’s economic map and once again came out forcibly in support of President Dima Rousseff.
Wednesday, July 27th 2011 - 03:56 UTC
Brazil a “dysfunctional country” according to the Norwegian mass killer

The Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik, 32, makes reference to Brazil as a ‘dysfunctional’ county in his document “A European Declaration of Independence- 2083”, which was published in Internet.
Wednesday, July 27th 2011 - 03:48 UTC
Argentine farmers furious with government’s wheat export policy

Argentina liberated 450.000 tons of wheat for export, a decision which is believed to be closely linked to Sunday’s election in the farming province of Santa Fe where the government of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner suffered a major defeat.