Britain’s Conservative leader David Cameron hailed his party's victory in Norwich North as historic and branded Labour's campaign as despicable. Cameron said by-election winner Chloe Smith, 27, was a credit to the party and the kind of MP he wanted.
Uruguay criticized trade barriers imposed by Mercosur country members which, it said seriously threaten the integration process and represent a “severe reversal” for the original project.
Headlines: ‘Govt is disconnected from the community’; Five cases of swine flu confirmed.
Uruguay, Chile and Argentina have lower levels of insecurity than the rest of Latinamerica according to secretary general of the Organization of American States Miguel Insulza who said he was against more severe punishments as a strategy to improve security.
Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos defended his visit to Gibraltar on Spain’s Radio Nacional amidst severe criticism mainly from the right wing press. The front page of El Mundo was a banner headline declaring the picture of the three ministers at the top of the Rock as ‘The Photo of Shame’.
Honduran diplomat Rosalinda Bueso Asfura recovered Wednesday control of the Honduras embassy in Mexico City which had been taken over by adepts to the de facto government of interim President Roberto Micheletti.
Uruguay officially takes the pro-tempore chair of Mercosur from Paraguay on Friday during the main ceremony of the group’s presidential summit in the capital of Paraguay, Asuncion. Originally the meeting was to receive eight presidents but al last moment Ecuador and Venezuela turned back.
Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya should return home on Friday, mediators in the crisis have said. But the country's interim authorities, who removed him, have said they will not bow to international demands for his reinstatement.
Israel's foreign minister ran into controversy on the first day of a Latinamerican trip when an official of Brazil's ruling party reportedly called him a fascist. Israel's Haaretz newspaper reported that Valter Pomar, secretary of international relations for the Workers Party, described Avigdor Lieberman as a racist and a fascist during an interview
Mercosur presidents will consider this week during the summit in Paraguay, the possibility of using local currencies to finance inter-region trade, revealed the host country’s president Fernando Lugo.