Politics

• Monday, April 4th 2011 - 07:14 UTC

  President Barack Obama expected to announce this week re-election plans

  

  Barack Obama is likely to announce plans next week to run for re-election and file campaign papers with the Federal Election Commission as early as Monday, a Democratic official said.

• Monday, April 4th 2011 - 06:57 UTC

  “London and New York, two biggest laundries of criminal and drug money”

  

  Martin Woods, a former senior anti-money laundering officer at the London office of Wachovia Bank says that New York and London have become the world's two biggest laundries of criminal and drug money, and offshore tax havens.

• Monday, April 4th 2011 - 04:41 UTC

  President Rousseff’s foreign policy “will emphasize human rights (South and North)”

  

  The Brazilian government admitted for the first time that there is some profile changes in the foreign policy implemented by President Dilma Rousseff compared to her predecessor Lula da Silva.

• Monday, April 4th 2011 - 04:36 UTC

  Parts of Air France aircraft lost in 2009 found on seabed of the Atlantic

  

  France has discovered what appears to be part of an Air France aircraft that crashed in the Atlantic almost two years ago killing all 228 people on board, accident investigators said.

• Monday, April 4th 2011 - 02:11 UTC

  Islamic extremists operating illegally in Triple Frontier area, says Brazilian magazine

  

  Islamic extremist groups such as Al Qaeda, Hezbollah and Hamas are illegally operating in the Triple Frontier area shared by Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil, where they allegedly gather large amounts of money, recruit new militants and plan additional attacks, Brazilian magazine Veja denounced.

• Monday, April 4th 2011 - 00:47 UTC

  Humala leads in Peruvian presidential race and a run-off June 5 is almost certain

  

  Nationalist candidate Ollanta Humala consolidated his lead in Peru’s presidential race according to the latest public opinion polls published Sunday in the country’s main dailies. Earlier in the week Humala promised investors he would manage the economy prudently and respect foreign investors despite his radical past.

• Monday, April 4th 2011 - 00:45 UTC

  Vargas Llosa blasts Humala and Keiko: ‘it’s like choosing between cancer and aids’

  

  Peruvian presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori rejected Mario Vargas Llosa’s remarks who said once again that choosing between Ollanta Humala and her, was like choosing between cancer and terminal Aids, and said that the Nobel Prize winner’s comments are “useless”.

• Saturday, April 2nd 2011 - 20:37 UTC

  Spain’s Prince Felipe recalls Gibraltar at state dinner for Prince of Wales

  

  Spain’s longstanding claim over the sovereignty of Gibraltar looked destined to continue into the next generation of Spanish politics as the heir to the Spanish throne, the Prince of Asturias, used a state dinner for the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall to reiterate Spain’s desire to ‘progress’ on Gibraltar.

• Saturday, April 2nd 2011 - 20:27 UTC

  Malvinas voluntary soldier letter to be read in all Argentine schools as of 2012

  

  President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner announced that the letter written by a teacher and voluntary soldier in the 1982 Malvinas War conflict and which he sent to his pupils is to be read in all Argentine schools beginning 2012.

• Saturday, April 2nd 2011 - 20:09 UTC

  Unasur leaders letter to Ban Ki-moon in support of Argentina’s Malvinas claim

  

  Unasur (Union of South American Nations) leaders sent UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon a letter dated April 2 in support of Argentina’s sovereignty claim over the Falklands Islands.