Politics

• Tuesday, November 17th 2009 - 09:14 UTC

  Shimon Peres in Argentina proposes “a new relation for a new world”

  

  Israeli President Shimon Peres met on Monday with Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. Shimon arrived on Sunday in Argentina, home to Latin America's biggest Jewish community for a two-day visit.

• Tuesday, November 17th 2009 - 09:10 UTC

  Latinamerica at the heart of a climate change deal, says Miliband

  

  United Kingdom Foreign Secretary David Miliband said on Monday a politically binding deal on climate change will only be struck with the agreement of leading South American countries.

• Tuesday, November 17th 2009 - 09:08 UTC

  Argentina’s first gay couple marriage scheduled for December, AIDS Day

  

  An Argentine gay couple that was enabled by a Buenos Aires City court ruling to get married after declaring the articles of the Civic Code that prohibit it as unconstitutional, requested on Monday a wedding date, according to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transvestite Federation (LGBT).

• Tuesday, November 17th 2009 - 09:00 UTC

  Royal Navy’s new hunter nuclear submarine “Astute” takes to the sea

  

  The biggest and most powerful attack submarine ever built for the Royal Navy, “Astute” took to the seas this weekend. “Astute” set sail from Barrow-in-Furness to start her first set of sea trials and is now heading to her homeport of Faslane on the Clyde in Scotland.

• Monday, November 16th 2009 - 23:50 UTC

  International Liberal support for Micheletti and Honduras election

  

  Honduras de facto leader Roberto Micheletti has been named vice-president of the Liberal International organization in spite of the fact he is not recognized by a majority of the international community.

• Monday, November 16th 2009 - 23:45 UTC

  Bolivian December election is focused on control of the Senate

  

  Bolivian president Evo Morales continues to lead comfortably public opinion polls with only three weeks for the presidential election scheduled for December 6. Five million Bolivians are registered to vote.

• Monday, November 16th 2009 - 20:21 UTC

  Chile’s December election: 100.000 registered to vote in Magallanes

  

  Almost 100.000 residents are registered in Magallanes Region to vote on December 13th Chilean general elections which will decide on the country’s next president and regional members for the Lower House in Santiago.

• Monday, November 16th 2009 - 19:57 UTC

  New Chairman for South Georgia Association

  

  The South Georgia Association has announced the name of its new chairman.
  He is Professor David J. Drewry, a former director of the Scott Polar Research Institute and of the British Antarctic Survey and Director General of the British Council, who has recently retired as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hull.

• Monday, November 16th 2009 - 16:32 UTC

  Brazil warns of “deterioration” of US relations with South America

  

  Brazilian Foreign Affairs minister Celos Amorim warned that relations between United States and Latinamerica are deteriorating and called on President Barak Obama to begin a dialogue with Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez.

• Monday, November 16th 2009 - 16:31 UTC

  Israeli president Shimon Peres in Argentina for two-day visit

  

  Israeli President Shimon Peres, who will meet Monday with President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, arrived Sunday night in Buenos Aires for his two-day official visit, the first of an Israeli head of state in decades.