Politics

• Tuesday, December 8th 2009 - 07:20 UTC

  Overseas Territories meet in London on tenth anniversary of milestone White Paper

  

  Foreign Office Minister Chris Bryant will be hosting in London the eleventh meeting of the Overseas Territories Consultative Council (OTCC) on Wednesday 9 December. This is a key event in the British government /Overseas Territories calendar.

• Tuesday, December 8th 2009 - 04:18 UTC

  Honduras winning party with strong majority in Congress

  

  Honduras November 29th election winner (Conservative) National party will have a clear majority in Congress according to the latest reports from the country’s electoral authorities.

• Tuesday, December 8th 2009 - 04:14 UTC

  Venezuela tackles crime, 20% of which committed by the police force

  

  Almost a fifth of all registered crimes in Venezuela are committed by law enforcement officers, particularly those most violent such as kidnapping and homicides, revealed Home Secretary Tareck El Aisammi.

• Tuesday, December 8th 2009 - 04:03 UTC

  Sao Paulo gang digs their way into a vault and 6 million US dollars

  

  A Brazilian gang robbed ten million Reais (approximately six million US dollars) from the vault of a securities transport company after tunnelling from a neighbouring house to the west of Sao Paulo.

• Tuesday, December 8th 2009 - 03:56 UTC

  EU/Mercosur sign cooperation agreement

  

  The European Union and Mercosur signed a cooperation agreement involving 27 million US dollars earmarked for the sustainable development of the region.

• Monday, December 7th 2009 - 23:44 UTC

  Brazilian inflation and interest rates forecasted to increase in 2010

  

  The Brazilian economy is forecasted to expand 0.21% in 2009 according to a Central Bank poll among financial experts and which is published weekly in the Focus Bulletin. In the previous edition the growth estimate was 0.20%.

• Monday, December 7th 2009 - 12:29 UTC

  A two-day busy Mercosur summit begins Monday in Montevideo

  

  Uruguay is hosting as of Monday the Mercosur bi-annual presidential summit which will have as top issue of the agenda trade differences among its members, particularly Argentina and Brazil, and on the sidelines contacts of Uruguay’s president-elect Jose Mujica with leaders from Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay

• Monday, December 7th 2009 - 11:22 UTC

  Landslide victory and Senate majority for Evo Morales in Bolivia

  

  Bolivian president Evo Morales won by a landslide majority in Sunday’s general elections and according to exit polls has ensured the Senate two thirds majority needed to continue with his reforms program some of them considered controversial.

• Monday, December 7th 2009 - 11:20 UTC

  Opposition does not discard impeachment of President Cristina Kirchner

  

  A leader of the Argentine opposition does not discard the possibility of impeaching President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner for alleged acts of corruption.

• Monday, December 7th 2009 - 11:06 UTC

  Olympic City Rio do Janeiro boasts world’s largest floating Xmas tree

  

  The lights are blazing from the world's largest floating Christmas tree -- a gigantic 85-metre high metal structure set on a lagoon in Rio de Janeiro, the city that will host the 2016 Olympic Games.