Politics

• 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.

• Thursday, October 1st 2009 - 03:54 UTC

  Falkland Islands de-mining another step closer

  

  Two members of the De-mining Project Office (DPO) being set up by the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) to oversee de-mining in the Falklands this year, will arrive in the Islands on Thursday.

• Wednesday, September 30th 2009 - 13:37 UTC

  Falklands’ government “integral part” of discussions with Argentina

  

  Even when Argentina ignores Falkland Islanders and the Islands’ elected government and privileges the United Kingdom, “we are always integral part to the three legged discussions” pointed out former member of the Legislative Assembly Andrea Clausen in an interview with the Argentine press.