Politics

Wednesday, December 22nd 2010 - 05:26 UTC
US ‘internet neutrality guidelines’ trigger controversy

Amid a firestorm of criticism from both ends of the political spectrum, the United States Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday adopted the first-ever regulations for broadband Internet service, rules designed to foster the fast-evolving market for TV and movies over the Web.
Wednesday, December 22nd 2010 - 05:24 UTC
President Chavez extends broadcast media clamp to the internet

Venezuelan lawmakers have imposed broadcast-type regulations on the internet, barring some types of online messages under measures that opponents say are a threat to freedom of speech.
Wednesday, December 22nd 2010 - 05:18 UTC
Carter wants Brazil to play a role in Mid East peace; US mediation exhausted

On the same day that work began on a new Palestinian embassy in Brasilia, Brazilian president Lula da Silva said that peace in the Middle East was impossible with the United States as a mediator, reported the Palestine News Network.
Wednesday, December 22nd 2010 - 05:15 UTC
Ernst & Young accused of helping Lehman Brothers hide financial problems

New York prosecutors sued Ernst & Young, accusing the accounting firm of helping to hide Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc's financial problems, the first major government legal action stemming from the Wall Street bank's 2008 downfall.
Tuesday, December 21st 2010 - 05:43 UTC
Unemployment is going down in Latam but job-quality has become the challenge

Latin America and the Caribbean experienced rapid employment recovery in 2010 to pre-crisis levels, according to data provided by the International Labour Organisation (ILO). However, the quality of jobs now being offered to those made jobless in the contracted worldwide recession over the past two years is fast becoming a problem in itself.
Tuesday, December 21st 2010 - 05:30 UTC
BBC Brian Hanrahan, famous for his coverage of the Falklands’ war dies at 61

Brian Hanrahan, one of the most famous BBC correspondents - best known for his coverage of the Falklands War - has died at the age of 61 after a short battle against cancer.
Tuesday, December 21st 2010 - 05:19 UTC
High Court ruling favours 9.500 former conscripts Malvinas war veterans

A ruling from Argentina’s Supreme Court admitted “Malvinas war veteran condition” to a petty officer who was deployed in Puerto Belgrano and Rio Grande during the 1982 conflict thus enabling him to a veteran’s pension.
Tuesday, December 21st 2010 - 04:54 UTC
Australia committed to Latin America and Chile the door to the region

Australia’s Minister for Foreign Affairs and former Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, was in Santiago on Saturday, meeting with Chilean Foreign Minister Alfredo Moreno and President Sebastián Piñera.
Tuesday, December 21st 2010 - 02:52 UTC
Lula da Silva admits he could run again for office, if things go bad

Brazil's outgoing President Lula da Silva said he might run for president again some day, Folha de S. Paulo newspaper reported, a revelation that could weaken his chosen successor.
Tuesday, December 21st 2010 - 00:15 UTC
CFK promises 6.000 border patrols to combat crime and rash of land grabs

Argentine president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner announced Monday the launching of operation “Guard Watch” with the deployment of 6.000 border guards throughout the Greater Buenos Aires with the purpose of combating the insecurity wave and putting an end to the rash of illegal occupation of open spaces by organized squatters.