Politics

Saturday, July 31st 2010 - 19:06 UTC
Chile re-establishes relations with Honduras; recognized President Lobo

Chile is re-establishing diplomatic relations with Honduras more than a year after a coup sent the Central American country into political crisis, Chile's foreign ministry announced Friday.
Saturday, July 31st 2010 - 18:56 UTC
Mujica and Lula da Silva reiterate commitment to Mercosur and Unasur

Brazilian President Lula da Silva and Uruguay’s Jose Mujica on Friday defended South America’s integration as a peace zone and reiterated the two countries commitment to Mercosur and Unasur.
Saturday, July 31st 2010 - 05:26 UTC
Record unemployment in Spain reaches 20.09%, highest since 1997

Spain’s unemployment rate already the highest in the Euro region rose to the most in more than a decade in the second quarter: 20.09% up from 20.05% in the first quarter, according to the country’s National Statistics Institute. This is the highest since 1997.
Saturday, July 31st 2010 - 05:05 UTC
Lula da Silva will continue to openly support Dilma’s presidential campaign

Brazilian president Lula da Silva who insists in campaigning for the incumbent presidential candidate Dilma Rousseff, in spite of electoral regulations, revealed that the country’s ‘coup elite’ tried to remove him from office.
Saturday, July 31st 2010 - 05:03 UTC
The first two male couples marry in Argentina under recently approved law

An actor and his agent sealed Friday in Buenos Aires their 34-year relationship and years of struggle to have their rights acknowledged as they became the first same-sex couple to be married under Argentine law.
Friday, July 30th 2010 - 06:29 UTC
Venezuela/Colombia rift: UNASUR unable to reach consensus calls for summit

The UNASUR (Union of South American Nations) Foreign Affairs ministerial meeting concluded Thursday night in Quito without an agreement on how to solve the diplomatic rift between Venezuela and Colombia.
Friday, July 30th 2010 - 06:16 UTC
Colombia claims Venezuela at last moment walked out from consensus document

Colombian Foreign Affairs minister Jaime Bermudez claimed Venezuela impeded reaching a consensus on a cooperation mechanism preventing the presence of Colombian guerrillas in other countries, during the Unasur ministerial meeting Thursday in Ecuador.
Friday, July 30th 2010 - 06:05 UTC
NZ Trade Minister shares in Uruguay dairy farming could cost him the job

The financial dealings of New Zealand Trade Minister Tim Groser are under scrutiny amid revelations he owns thousands of shares in a Uruguayan-based dairy company that he actively promotes as part of his job, according to the NZ press.
Friday, July 30th 2010 - 06:00 UTC
Citibank agrees fine to settle charges it misled investors with high risk mortgages

Banking giant Citigroup has agreed to pay 75 million US dollars to settle civil charges that it misled investors over potential losses from high-risk mortgages. It agreed the settlement with US financial watchdog the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
Friday, July 30th 2010 - 03:36 UTC
Berlusconi selling his Sardinia “love nest” for 450 million Euro

Italian Primer Minister Silvio Berlusconi is selling his ostentatious Villa Certosa in the island of Sardinia very much celebrated for some of the controversial private parties with prostitutes and teenagers he organized and were widely captured on film.