A former Chilean Air Force chief was arrested Monday on charges of embezzling nearly 2.9 million US dollars in a 1994 government deal to buy second hand Mirage Elkan fighter jets from Belgium and refurbish them, according to a Santiago court.
US President-elect Barack Obama has told a huge crowd of supporters at a pre-inauguration rally in Washington that anything is possible in America.
Brazil's president Lula da Silva said on Friday he would like to talk with US president elect Barack Obama before the government machine gets hold of him and expected the incoming leader would change his vision on Latinamerica and acknowledge the advance of regional democracy.
The Royal Navy has revealed it is arranging for HMS Endurance to be towed back to Portsmouth on a barge. The ice patrol vessel has been out of action since it suffered a major flood on December 16, and is currently berthed in the Falkland Islands, reports the Portsmouth press.
Former president Nestor Kirchner joined the long list of Argentine officials which have lately called publicly for an end to the pickets on an international bridge leading to neighbouring Uruguay.
Headlines: Vendée Globe competitors pass by on last long leg of the race; Founder of Desire Petroleum loses fight with illness; Moto-X to make a comeback.
THE Falkland Islands community is pulling together to keep on schedule the opening of a lodge for visiting British '82 war veterans.
United States and Peru began on Friday the implementation of a free trade agreement just days before US president George W Bush leaves office and despite concerns about labour and environmental aspects of the accord.
The Organization of American States, OAS, will send 65 observers from 16 different countries to the constitutional reform referendum programmed for January 25th in Bolivia, reported the head of the OAS mission Raul Lago.
The inside trading scandal in shares of mining company Monterrico Minerals involving a former Falkland Islands governor came to an end this week when Belgian investor, Erk Boyen was fined £ 176.254 by the UK' Financial Services Authority, reports The Independent in an article from Mathieu Robbins.