Politics

• Saturday, November 28th 2009 - 07:23 UTC

  Mujica supports Lula da Silva government style and his Iran policy

  

  Uruguay’s incumbent presidential candidate Jose “Pepe” Mujica again supported Brazilian president Lula da Silva’s administration and policies, describing as a “genius move” the decision to receive this week in Brasilia the controversial Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

• Saturday, November 28th 2009 - 07:17 UTC

  Unasur calls on Europe not to recognize Honduras Sunday election

  

  The Union of South American Nations, Unasur will not recognize Sunday’s presidential election in Honduras organized by the de facto regime, announced in Brussels Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa who called on the European Union to adopt a similar attitude.

• Saturday, November 28th 2009 - 07:06 UTC

  Iraq invasion of “questionable legitimacy” but “inevitable”

  

  The invasion of Iraq was of “questionable legitimacy”, according to Britain's ambassador to the United Nations at the time. Sir Jeremy Greenstock told the official war inquiry he believed the military action was legal under international law, but it did not have majority backing in the UN.

• Saturday, November 28th 2009 - 05:15 UTC

  Brazil still recovering from major outage, suffers blackout in Olympic city Rio

  

  Brazil has endured another major blackout and officials remain unclear what is causing the problem. Higher-scale Rio de Janeiro beach neighbourhood earlier in the week suffered an outage forcing employees to be sent home as restaurants and other businesses disposed of spoiled food.

• Saturday, November 28th 2009 - 05:11 UTC

  Costa Rica calls for recognition of Honduras Sunday elections results

  

  Costa Rica president Oscar Arias, who mediated in the Honduran political crisis, announced his country would recognize the winner of next Sunday’s election and called on other countries to follow in statements to CNN.

• Friday, November 27th 2009 - 11:36 UTC

  Brazil and the US confirm differences over Honduras Sunday elections

  

  Brazil’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Celso Amorim reaffirmed on Thursday divergences with the United States regarding the political crisis in Honduras before the opening of the Amazon basin countries and France Summit on climate change in Manaus, Brazil.

• Friday, November 27th 2009 - 11:31 UTC

  Falklands’ begins 2010 with a new Director of Community Safety

  

  Chief Superintendent Gary Finchett, Northern Area Commander of Cheshire Police in the United Kingdom will be taking up the post of the Falkland Islands Director of Community Safety on 11 January.

• Friday, November 27th 2009 - 11:25 UTC

  “South American Sails 2010” begins in Rio, February with calls in ten countries

  

  A dozen tall ships from the Americas and Europe will be participating next year in a regatta that will tour ten Latinamerican countries in the framework of the bicentennial celebrations, which marked the beginning of the end of Spanish colonial rule in the region.

• Friday, November 27th 2009 - 08:47 UTC

  Full support for Brazilian incumbent presidential pre-candidate

  

  Brazilian cabinet chief Dilma Rousseff, and presidential hopeful for next year’s election, said that very soon she would no longer need to use a wig, forced on her since she had to undergo chemotherapy treatment.

• Friday, November 27th 2009 - 08:43 UTC

  Ecuadorean oil in exchange for Chinese credits, cooperation and war planes

  

  Ecuador and China signed this week three cooperation agreements worth 442 million US dollars including a loan to buy four warplanes, announced the Ecuadorian government. The two countries are also planning joint operations in developing oil fields in the Amazon zone.