Politics

• Monday, February 1st 2010 - 05:41 UTC

  Dilma Rousseff finally says Yes and wants to be “Lula da Silva’s successor”

  

  Brazilian cabinet chief Dilma Rousseff, (62) hand picked by President Lula da Silva as the ruling coalition’s candidate for next October presidential election, finally openly admitted that “yes” she would love to be nominated as the popular leader’s “successor”.

• Sunday, January 31st 2010 - 14:32 UTC

  Haiti arrests US nationals suspected of child smuggling

  

  Haitian police have arrested 10 US nationals on suspicion of trying to illegally take 33 children abroad.

• Sunday, January 31st 2010 - 14:22 UTC

  Falkland Islands: BACTEC set to fly in another 15 deminers

  

  DESPITE the very real progress being made by BACTEC (Battle Area Clearance and Training Equipment Consultants) on the demining of Surf Bay and Sapper Hill minefields, several factors have culminated in the need to bring a further group of deminers to the Falklands.

• Sunday, January 31st 2010 - 14:08 UTC

  Lula da Silva “”I'm ready to get back in the game”

  

  Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Saturday he is in “perfect health” two days after being hospitalized for a high-blood-pressure attack that forced him to cancel his attendance at a global economic forum.

• Saturday, January 30th 2010 - 14:36 UTC

  Primer Minister Article on Inequality

  

  As Britain comes out of recession, a new age of aspiration is within reach - but it will not come about by chance. Only if we make the right choices in economic and social policy can we lift the sights and shape the life chances of millions of people in our country.

• Saturday, January 30th 2010 - 14:31 UTC

  Russia and Antarctica

  

  A historic discovery was made on January 28, 1820. A Russian navy expedition under the command of Faddei Bellingshausen and Mikhail Lazarev sighted the last of the remaining unexplored continents - Antarctica.

• Saturday, January 30th 2010 - 14:02 UTC

  Argentine chief banker resigns but foreign reserves remain frozen

  

  Argentina's embattled central bank chief, Martin Perez Redrado, resigned Friday amid a bitter dispute with President Cristina Kirchner over control of the bank’s foreign currency reserves.

• Saturday, January 30th 2010 - 08:23 UTC

  Unemployment in Magallanes softens but remains double the 2008 rate

  

  Unemployment in Magallanes region, extreme south of Chile reached 5.3% during the last quarter of last year which represents an improvement over the previous quarter, 6.6%, but is double over the same period a year ago when it stood at 2.8%.

• Saturday, January 30th 2010 - 08:18 UTC

  Euro zone unemployment hits 10%; Spain tops the list with 19.5%

  

  Unemployment in the 16 countries that use the Euro hit 10% in December for the first time since the single currency was introduced in 1999. It had been reported that the rate hit 10% in November, but this has subsequently been revised down to 9.9%.

• Saturday, January 30th 2010 - 08:15 UTC

  Communist party eliminated from Chile’s political parties registry

  

  Chile’s Electoral Service, Servel cancelled the registry of seven political parties, among which the Communist Party for not having complied with the rule which demands a minimum 5% of valid votes of total turnout in last December 13 presidential election.