Politics

• Friday, April 2nd 2010 - 23:03 UTC

  Putin consolidates Russian partnership with Venezuela

  

  Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin arrived Friday in Venezuela for his first visit to the OPEC nation as he prepared to sign energy, defense, and financial agreements with President Hugo Chavez.

• Friday, April 2nd 2010 - 22:22 UTC

  Mrs Kirchner blasts UN “double standards” on Falklands’ resolutions

  

  “Don’t try to scare us with the ghost that we are going to take Malvinas militarily”, said Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner at the main commemoration of the 28th anniversary of the Argentine troops landing in the Falkland Islands.

• Friday, April 2nd 2010 - 08:35 UTC

  Argentina to see biggest anti-British protests for years

  

  Britons have been warned to stay away from marches in Buenos Aires on Friday as thousands are expected to mass for Argentina's biggest anti-British protests in years.

• Friday, April 2nd 2010 - 00:48 UTC

  Message from the Falkland Islands Government on the 28th Anniversary of the invasion by Argentina

  

  Today we remember the events of 2 April 1982 which led to the deaths of over nine hundred people in the Falkland Islands over a period of 74 days.

• Wednesday, March 31st 2010 - 19:38 UTC

  Putin’s visits Venezuela Friday, sets alarm bells ringing in Washington

  

  Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will pay his first visit to Venezuela to meet with President Hugo Chavez on April 2, a government source told RIA Novosti in Moscow on Wednesday.

• Wednesday, March 31st 2010 - 19:10 UTC

  Chilean president announces housing emergency plan totalling 2.5 billion USD

  

  Chilean President Sebastian Piñera announced this week the second part of his emergency reconstruction plan during a visit to the lower-middle class borough of Lo Prado. Beneficiaries of the new program are mostly lower middle class families.

• Wednesday, March 31st 2010 - 18:30 UTC

  Euro zone Feb unemployment at its highest, 10%; Spain at record 19%

  

  Unemployment rates reach double digits in February in the Euro zone to hit an 11-year high in the 16-nation bloc. The February unemployment rate stood at 10% — the highest level to hit European nations since August 1998 — tipping the unemployment rate into double digits for the first time in 2010.

• Wednesday, March 31st 2010 - 18:28 UTC

  US and EU pledge 2.75 billion USD in aid to rebuild Haiti

  

  United States and the European Union pledged Wednesday a combined 2.75 billion USD in aid for rebuilding Haiti following the January earthquake that killed about 200,000 people and devastated the capital, Port-au-Prince.

• Wednesday, March 31st 2010 - 18:24 UTC

  High-quality oil in once guerrilla infested Colombian jungle

  

  Petrominerales Ltd., mostly owned by Canadian companies said Monday that an oil well drilled in Colombia has produced a prolific 15,600 barrels of high-quality crude per day, following similarly strong results from two other wells on its Candelilla discovery.

• Wednesday, March 31st 2010 - 18:20 UTC

  Texas Congress discuss violence from drug war along border with Mexico

  

  The violence raging in Mexico’s drug war is worse now than the terror that enveloped Colombia during the 1980s and 1990s ever was, Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve Mc Craw told state lawmakers this week in Austin.