Politics

• Thursday, January 21st 2010 - 07:00 UTC

  Aftershocks cause panic among Haitians and rescuers

  

  A powerful aftershock sent Haitians screaming into the streets on Wednesday, collapsing buildings, cracking roads and adding to the trauma caused by the major quake eight days ago.

• Thursday, January 21st 2010 - 06:53 UTC

  China freezes liquidity and sends global markets tumbling

  

  Global shares have fallen amid concerns that China's plans to reduce lending by its banks will hurt the worldwide economy. The falls came after Chinese state media said authorities had ordered commercial banks to stop lending for the rest of January.

• Wednesday, January 20th 2010 - 13:04 UTC

  Haiti government emerges from the rubble; US begins airdrops of food and water

  

  Haiti's government has regrouped after last week's devastating earthquake and is working to find food, shelter and medicine for survivors, Prime Minister Jean Max Bellerive said Tuesday.

• Wednesday, January 20th 2010 - 12:51 UTC

  Argentine depositors look for security and discretion in Uruguay’s banks

  

  Argentines disenchanted with their current government are taking their savings to refuge in neighbouring Uruguay where deposits of non residents have soared 20% during 2009, according to primary estimates from the Central Bank.

• Wednesday, January 20th 2010 - 12:49 UTC

  Lula da Silva announces campaign to promote protégé Dilma Rousseff

  

  With less that a year for presidential elections Brazilian leader Lula da Silva announced a spree of “public works inaugurations” until April, with the purpose of promoting the candidacy of his cabinet chief Dilma Rousseff.

• Wednesday, January 20th 2010 - 12:41 UTC

  Cruise industry joins relief effort by continuing to visit unaffected Haiti resorts

  

  Luxury cruise ships will continue to dock as normal at an idyllic resort in northern Haiti despite the deadly earthquake a week ago that devastated the Caribbean nation, a cruise company said Tuesday.

• Wednesday, January 20th 2010 - 12:38 UTC

  Brazil promises to find killers of journalist and compensates family

  

  The Inter American Press Association IAPA praised Governor Jaques Wagner from the Brazilian state of Bahia for the enactment of legislation which provides for payment to the widow and children of journalist Manoel Leal de Oliveira murdered in 1998.

• Wednesday, January 20th 2010 - 12:16 UTC

  Mrs. Kirchner cancels trip to China: claims she can’t trust Vice-president

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner announced Tuesday during a press conference at the Government House that she suspended her business trip to China because she does not trust in Vice-President Julio Cobos, and accused him of trying to “block” the decisions of the Executive Branch.

• Wednesday, January 20th 2010 - 09:06 UTC

  Argentine president travels to China to boost trade and cooperation

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner will visit China next week as the country is in the middle of a controversy with Congress over a debt repayment plan which would appeal to Central bank resources but has been frozen by the courts.

• Wednesday, January 20th 2010 - 06:59 UTC

  E-Clear-Flyglobespan collapse: £35 million “no longer there”

  

  E-Clear, the company responsible for online ticket sales at the failed Scottish airline Flyglobespan, has been placed into administration. Flyglobespan also had the UK Ministry of Defence contract for the air bridge between Brize Norton and MPA in the Falkland Islands.