Politics

• Wednesday, November 11th 2009 - 11:29 UTC

  Chavez “war alert” shell-shocks Mercosur admission debate in Brazil

  

  Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez alert calling on the Army and the people to prepare for “a possible war” with Colombia shell-shocked the Brazilian Senate that this week is scheduled to vote on Venezuela’s full incorporation to Mercosur.

• Wednesday, November 11th 2009 - 11:11 UTC

  Foreign Office embarrassed: Sorry, did you mean Algeciras or Algeria?

  

  In 2006, British officials filed an application to list part of Gibraltar waters as an EU protected nature site. Now it has emerged they got the wrong coordinates: Instead of designating the sea around Gibraltar, they listed a stretch of water somewhere off the coast of Algeria.

• Wednesday, November 11th 2009 - 11:07 UTC

  Lloyds Group announced more jobs cuts: 5.000 positions in 2010

  

  Lloyds Banking Group is to axe thousands of jobs next year in a fresh wave of cuts under plans to reduce costs, sources have said. Up to 5,000 positions are expected to be cut in the UK in 2010, on top of thousands already slashed this year.

• Wednesday, November 11th 2009 - 10:50 UTC

  Peruvian navy interested in Argentine manufactured sea-air missiles

  

  The Peruvian Navy expressed interest in the acquisition of Argentine manufactured missiles currently under development, basically a version of the sea air Aspide, according to a Monday release from the Argentine Defence ministry.

• Wednesday, November 11th 2009 - 04:26 UTC

  UK proposal turns south of South Orkney Islands a Marine Protected Area

  

  The British Government announced on Tuesday an ambitious plan at enhancing environmental protection of the world’s oceans and the Antarctic and including the designation of the world first “high seas” marine protected area south of the South Orkney Islands (once a Falklands dependency).

• Tuesday, November 10th 2009 - 12:08 UTC

  Extraordinary OAS meeting to consider the Honduran situation

  

  The Organization of American States Permanent Council will hold an extraordinary meeting Tuesday to assess the situation in Honduras following the interruption of the process agreed by both sides to end the several months political crisis.

• Tuesday, November 10th 2009 - 12:00 UTC

  On Berlin Wall Fall anniversary world leaders pledge to battle injustice

  

  World leaders marking the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall's fall have said the battle against injustice around the world must continue. German Chancellor Angela Merkel was joined at the Brandenburg Gate by UK PM Gordon Brown, France's Nicolas Sarkozy and top US diplomat Hillary Clinton.
  They warned human rights were still under threat for millions of people.

• Tuesday, November 10th 2009 - 11:53 UTC

  Mrs. Kirchner blames opposition and the press for social unrest feeling

  

  In the midst of growing social unrest which has taken to the streets of Buenos Aires to protest, Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner said Monday that she believes in order, in organization, but not through repression.

• Tuesday, November 10th 2009 - 11:50 UTC

  Argentine Church concerned with “social tension and coexistence problems”

  

  The Argentine Catholic Church showed their “great concern” on “the social tension and coexistence problems” in the country and demanded “consensus and dialogue” during the opening of this year's last plenary of Bishops at Pilar district, Buenos Aires province.

• Tuesday, November 10th 2009 - 08:41 UTC

  Colombia will appeal to UN and OAS following Chavez war threats

  

  Colombia said on Sunday it will appeal to the United Nations Security Council and the Organization of American States after President Hugo Chavez from neighbouring Venezuela ordered his army to prepare for war in order to assure peace.