Politics

• Monday, October 5th 2009 - 13:08 UTC

  Uribe asks for more time to consolidate his “democratic security” policy

  

  Colombian president Alvaro Uribe asked for more time to defeat the terrorism that scourges his country and underlined that his “democratic security” policy needs a ‘little while’ longer”.

• Monday, October 5th 2009 - 13:01 UTC

  Elections Brazilian style: 13% of voters confess to have “traded” their vote

  

  An estimated 17 million Brazilians, 13% of the electorate, confessed to have traded their vote for money, job or gifts, according to a public opinion poll released Sunday by Folha de Sao Paulo.

• Sunday, October 4th 2009 - 10:50 UTC

  Falkland Islands’ Government at UK Party Conferences

  

  The Falkland Islands Government (FIG) will be represented at the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester from 5-8 October. Last week FIG was present at the Labor Party conference in Brighton.

• Sunday, October 4th 2009 - 10:48 UTC

  Mrs. Kirchner: “One day this century an Argentine president will visit Malvinas”

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner said that one day this century an Argentine president will be able to visit the Malvinas Islands to homage the Argentine soldiers who died in the war with Britain 27 years ago and are buried in the Falklands.

• Sunday, October 4th 2009 - 10:41 UTC

  Malvinas Families grieve their beloved at Darwin Argentine cemetery

  

  “A day for humanitarianism: leaving politics aside and providing relatives of the fallen with a right to grieve” was how Paul Martínez, First Secretary from Falkland Islands Government House described Saturday’s visit by 165 members of the Malvinas Families for the inauguration of the Memorial at the Argentine cemetery.

• Saturday, October 3rd 2009 - 12:26 UTC

  Mrs. Kirchner to farewell Malvinas Families leaving for Falklands

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner will be at Rio Gallegos airport early Saturday morning to farewell the first group of Malvinas Families that will be flying to the Falkland Islands for the official inauguration of the Memorial at the Argentine cemetery in Darwin.

• Saturday, October 3rd 2009 - 12:21 UTC

  Honduras sides on conflict agree to a tentative dialogue under OAS

  

  Ousted Honduran president Manuel Zelaya and the de facto government headed by Roberto Micheletti have agreed to begin talks next week under the auspices of the OAS (Organization of American States) in an attempt to find a way out to the institutional crisis.

• Saturday, October 3rd 2009 - 12:05 UTC

  Russian billionaire makes London Evening Standard a free newspaper

  

  Russian billionaire Alexander Lebedev is to make the London Evening Standard a free newspaper later this month, after more than 180 years as a paid-for title. Lebedev bought a controlling stake in the loss making newspaper last January for a nominal sum of £1 after almost a year of secret negotiations with Lord Rothermere's Daily Mail & General Trust.

• Saturday, October 3rd 2009 - 08:40 UTC

  US shocked by rising unemployment; fears of consumer confidence erosion

  

  The United States economy lost 263.000 jobs in September, which was more than had been expected, according to official non-farm payrolls figures. The jobless rate rose to a fresh 26-year high of 9.8% from August's figure of 9.7%.
  The number in employment has now fallen for 21 consecutive months.

• Saturday, October 3rd 2009 - 01:09 UTC

  Brazil takes to the streets to celebrate Rio 2016 Olympics

  

  Thousands poured to Rio do Janeiro streets and famous beaches at mid day Friday to celebrate the selection of the city to host the 2016 Olympic Games, beating out Chicago, Tokyo and Madrid.