Politics

• Tuesday, February 8th 2011 - 21:00 UTC

  Russian chartered polar vessel supports Argentine Antarctic 2010/11 campaign

  

  Argentina in this 2010/11 campaign has been supplying Antarctic bases and stations with support from a Russian polar vessel equipped with an icebreaking bow and its own Navy units.

• Tuesday, February 8th 2011 - 20:00 UTC

  US, China and EU recognize and welcome the new nation of South Sudan

  

  United States, China and the European Union announced they would recognize south Sudan as the world’s newest nation. President Barack Obama went further and rewarded north Sudan for its cooperation by taking it off a terrorism blacklist.

• Tuesday, February 8th 2011 - 18:16 UTC

  German cadet death that triggered “mutiny” in training ship was “unfit for duty”

  

  The 25-year-old female cadet who died after falling from rigging on the German training ship Gorch Fock was unfit for duty because of her weight, according to German media reports on Tuesday.

• Tuesday, February 8th 2011 - 17:49 UTC

  Rate hikes expected in Brazil and Chile as global commodity prices drive inflation

  

  Global commodity prices continue to be the main driver of inflation in both Brazil and Chile, according to the latest Latin America update report from Capital Economics.

• Tuesday, February 8th 2011 - 17:31 UTC

  Meryl Streep plays Lady Thatcher leading up to the Falklands’ conflict

  

  The first photo of Meryl Streep as former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was released by Pathé UK Tuesday. Streep is currently filming “The Iron Lady” in London which focuses mainly on the period immediately prior to the Falkland Islands conflict.

• Tuesday, February 8th 2011 - 14:05 UTC

  Fearing Pinochet 1998 experience, former US president Bush cuts short EU visit

  

  When former Chilean dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet flew to Europe in 1998 for a vacation and back surgery, little did he know that he would be jailed by British authorities (acting on a Spanish arrest warrant) for human rights violations that occurred during his 17-year dictatorship.

• Tuesday, February 8th 2011 - 05:29 UTC

  Egypt attempts to put the economy back on movement

  

  The Egyptian government is struggling to finance itself as foreign investors pull out and the currency drops. It had to scale down a bond auction on Monday as state-owned banks failed to stump up enough cash.

• Tuesday, February 8th 2011 - 05:22 UTC

  When the Kirchners are over, Argentina will be a “minefield not a country”

  

  According to new Wikileaks cables unveiled by Spanish daily El Pais, Argetnina’s former Santa Fe governor Carlos Reutemann told US diplomats that “whoever comes after the Kirchner administrations will inherit a mine field” instead of a country.

• Tuesday, February 8th 2011 - 05:17 UTC

  Mujica calls on the ruling coalition “not to kill the golden eggs hen” of investment

  

  Uruguayan president Jose Mujica called on the ruling coalition to restrain public comments on wealth distribution or re-distribution underlining that the “golden eggs’ hen” is private investment so please “don’t kill the hen”.

• Tuesday, February 8th 2011 - 05:03 UTC

  Argentine industry warns: inflation is like a hard drug that creates “illusions and social tensions”

  

  Argentina’s Industrial Union’s vice president, and FIAT Argentina’s head Cristiano Ratazzi, warned Monday that “inflation is like a drug that creates illusions but also social tensions”.