Politics

Thursday, October 1st 2009 - 16:04 UTC
Uruguay’s fumbling presidential election makes the undecided soar

With just over three weeks to a crucial presidential election, Uruguayan political parties have been shocked by the latest public opinion polls: contrary to statistics both leading candidates have lost support while the undecided have doubled.
Thursday, October 1st 2009 - 16:01 UTC
US government relaxes control over internet

The US government has relaxed its control over how the internet is run. It has signed a four-page “affirmation of commitments” with the net regulator Icann, giving the body autonomy for the first time.
Thursday, October 1st 2009 - 15:58 UTC
UK leading banks accept international-agreed curbs on bonuses

Britain's five biggest banks have signed up to new internationally-agreed curbs on bonuses, it has been announced. Chancellor Alistair Darling welcomed the decision by the banks to accept the principles agreed last week at the G20 summit in Pittsburgh.
Thursday, October 1st 2009 - 15:53 UTC
Arias calls for support for Honduras November election

Costa Rica’s president Oscar Arias called on the international community to collaborate with Honduras November presidential election, avoiding isolating the de facto regime, thus helping to find a way out to the current crisis.
Thursday, October 1st 2009 - 15:50 UTC
Gibraltar waters dispute “caught the UK government asleep at the wheel”

Graham Watson, South West England and Gibraltar’s Liberal Democrat Member of the European Parliament vowed to hold Britain to account over the Gibraltar waters controversy with Spain, reports the Gibraltar Chronicle.
Thursday, October 1st 2009 - 07:47 UTC
Venezuela’s Mercosur incorporation criticized in Brazilian Senate

Venezuela’s Mercosur incorporation chances received a full blow this week when the Brazilian senate Foreign Relations committee rapporteur said the hopeful member-country is ruled by an “almost dictatorial” president Hugo Chavez
Thursday, October 1st 2009 - 05:35 UTC
Argentine Catholic Church says human rights are violated by extreme poverty

Primate Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio blasted the Argentine government saying “the social debt violates all the rights of the citizens to develop a full and active life.” Argentina's leading bishop added that “human rights are not only violated by acts of terrorism, but also by extreme poverty”.
Thursday, October 1st 2009 - 05:22 UTC
Argentina creates new Ministry of Agriculture, Fishery and Food

Argentina has officially created the Ministry of Agriculture, Fishery and Food, which previously worked as a secretariat of the Production Ministry. The decision of the Kirchner couple administration to raise the status of the Agriculture Secretariat to a ministry comes amid tensions with farming leaders who are protesting the government's farming policies.
Thursday, October 1st 2009 - 05:10 UTC
Peru’s Fujimori gets another 6 years prison now for bribes

Peru’s Supreme Court convicted and sentenced former President Alberto Fujimori to six years in prison for wiretapping opponents and paying bribes to lawmakers and publishers during his rule from 1990 to 2000.
Thursday, October 1st 2009 - 04:30 UTC
Zelaya denies Brazil was aware of his plans to return to Honduras

Ousted Honduran president Manuel Zelaya said that Brazilian president Lula da Silva did not know about his decision to return to Honduras and claimed that followers calling for his reinstatement have been viciously beaten up by police in Tegucigalpa, according to reports in the Brazilian press.