Politics

• Monday, July 19th 2010 - 04:21 UTC

  Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Spain, the Euro and now Hungary: who’s next?

  

  The IMF and EU suspended a review of Hungary's funding program, set up in 2008 to save the country from financial meltdown, saying it must take tough action to meet targets for cutting its budget deficit.

• Monday, July 19th 2010 - 04:14 UTC

  China promises Germany’s Merkel support for the Euro

  

  Chinese Premier, Wen Jiabao, has said that China will continue to invest in European markets, despite the debt problems affecting many Euro zone countries. He was speaking in Beijing alongside the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel. She described his pledge as an important signal that China has confidence in the Euro.

• Monday, July 19th 2010 - 00:36 UTC

  Stone promises to keep exposing the “white man” but with a doses of entertainment

  

  “It’s always a simple repeat of what happens in Iraq, Afghanistan or South America. It’s the white man who fights people he believes are inferior”, confessed US filmmaker Oliver Stone talking about his recent “South of the Border”.

• Monday, July 19th 2010 - 00:24 UTC

  Brazil to begin Mercosur talks with Dominican Republic

  

  Brazilian Foreign Trade Secretary Welber Barral flies Monday to Dominican Republic to promote bilateral and advance towards a road map for an agreement with Mercosur.

• Monday, July 19th 2010 - 00:21 UTC

  Spain calls for ‘understanding’ from released Cuban political prisoners

  

  Spanish Foreign Affairs minister Míguel Angel Moratinos called for “understanding” from the released Cuban political prisoners which arrived in Spain and who are complaining about their ‘undefined’ legal status.

• Monday, July 19th 2010 - 00:05 UTC

  Colombia to present evidence of FARC Venezuelan haven in OAS

  

  Colombia will take evidence it says proves the presence of FARC and ELN guerrillas in Venezuela to a meeting of the Organization of American States next Thursday confirmed ambassador to OAS Luis Alfonso Hoyos.

• Sunday, July 18th 2010 - 23:59 UTC

  Lula da Silva anticipates Ms Rousseff will be better than any man president

  

  President Lula da Silva said a woman can rule Brazil country much better than all the men that have been presidents in the country in the last 500 years.

• Saturday, July 17th 2010 - 06:52 UTC

  Mrs. Kirchner leaves China with no announcement on the soy-oil embargo dispute

  

  Talks between China, the world's biggest user of cooking oils, and Argentina regarding Beijing’s ban on imports of soybean oil from Argentina are on course although the country is moving to alternative markets said President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.

• Saturday, July 17th 2010 - 06:41 UTC

  Uruguay celebrates the 1950 World Cup feat, Brazil’s most fateful day

  

  With the euphoria of the recent fourth place in the South Africa World Cup, Uruguay celebrated on Friday July 16th the 60th anniversary of the country’s main sport greatest feat ever: winning the World Soccer Cup in Brazil in 1950.

• Saturday, July 17th 2010 - 06:32 UTC

  Paul, the oracle octopus not for sale Germany tells Madrid zoo

  

  The Madrid zoo made this week a transfer bid for Paul the oracle octopus his aquarium in Germany it would outbid all others and give him a warm welcome in gratitude for predicting Spain’s soccer World Cup win.