Politics

• Saturday, February 27th 2010 - 07:21 UTC

  Greek/German row leads to claims of World War II compensations

  

  Greek Deputy Prime Minister Theodoros Pangalos has accused Germany of failing to compensate Greece for Nazi occupation during World War II. Mr Pangalos made the remarks during a wide-ranging BBC interview about Greece's financial difficulties.

• Saturday, February 27th 2010 - 00:47 UTC

  IMF chief suggests “exploring” possible new international reserve currency

  

  The head of the International Monetary Fund said it would be “intellectually healthy to explore” the possible creation of an international reserve currency that would serve as an alternative to the US dollar-.

• Friday, February 26th 2010 - 16:49 UTC

  The Economist: Kirchners recipe for continued decline

  Leaving aside much of the London media rhetoric about a build-up or even a possible re-edition of 1982, between Argentina and the UK over the Falklands and South Atlantic islands sovereignty, The Economist adopts a more common sense and pragmatic attitude about the controversy over oil exploration in the South Atlantic.

• Friday, February 26th 2010 - 06:39 UTC

  Falklands: UK MOD denies naval incident with Argentine vessel

  

  The British Ministry of Defence strongly denied Thursday any incident in the Falklands territorial waters involving a Royal Navy South Atlantic patrol and an Argentine Navy corvette, as reported in some London sensational media.

• Friday, February 26th 2010 - 06:35 UTC

  Mujica praises “strong message” from the US; plans to invite Obama to Uruguay

  

  Uruguayan president elect Jose Mujica will hold a meeting with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Monday morning, before the official inauguration, and will take advantage of her presence to invite US President Barack Obama to visit Uruguay.

• Friday, February 26th 2010 - 06:30 UTC

  Chile’s largest copper producer increases output: first time in five years

  

  Chile’s Codelco, the world’s largest copper producer, increased production in 2009 for the first time in five years, helped by a new mine. The company also generated an impressive surplus over the last four years.

• Friday, February 26th 2010 - 06:24 UTC

  Spain, Cuba’s main supporter in the EU “deeply deplores” death of dissident

  

  Spain said it “deeply deplores” the death of Cuban dissident Orlando Zapata Tamayo and regrets that the human rights situation on the Castro brothers ruled island has led to “this very terrible outcome”.
  Zapata, 42, died Tuesday at a Havana hospital after an 85-day hunger strike.

• Friday, February 26th 2010 - 01:19 UTC

  Peruvian private pension funds purchase Lan Chile shares

  

  Peruvian Finance Minister Mercedes Araoz welcomed the participation of Peruvian private pension funds, AFP, in Thursday auction of a 6.4% stake (21.83 million shares) of Chilean flagship airline.

• Thursday, February 25th 2010 - 05:09 UTC

  Falklands’ dispute reaches the UN: Ban Ki-Moon’s praises peaceful attitude

  

  Argentina’s Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana as had been anticipated on Wednesday formally asked United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon to interfere in the “unilateral decisions” Britain has made regarding the Falklands/Malvinas Islands issue and highlighted that “from now on” everyone has to wait until Ban acts within a “good-solicitor” framework.

• Thursday, February 25th 2010 - 05:03 UTC

  Argentine court keeps freeze on Central Bank reserves

  

  An Argentine federal court kept a hold on the government’s plan to use 6.6 billion US dollars in Central Bank reserves to pay debt, sending the case to the Supreme Court for a final ruling, Argentina’s Court Information Center Web site said.