Politics

• Sunday, April 12th 2009 - 06:22 UTC

  Summit of the Americas: President Obama haunted by ghost of Cuba

  

  Mr Obama will announce that Washington is lifting the toughest restrictions on travel to the island for Cuban-Americans and the dollar remittances they can send back to impoverished relatives.

• Saturday, April 11th 2009 - 08:28 UTC

  Pope’s Good Friday special prayer for survivors of earthquake

  

  Pope Benedict reflected on the tragedies and disasters that test faith during a Good Friday procession in Rome, just hours after Italians buried victims of the country's devastating earthquake.

• Saturday, April 11th 2009 - 08:27 UTC

  CNN opinion poll in US shows 71% support relations with Cuba

  

  A new poll from CNN shows that two-thirds of US citizens surveyed think the US should lift its travel ban on Cuba, and three-quarters think the US should end its five-decade estrangement with the country.

• Friday, April 10th 2009 - 20:08 UTC

  Italy: Day of mourning for quake victims

  

  Grieving relatives collapsed over flower-draped caskets of the victims of Italy's worst earthquake in three decades as the nation joined in a day of mourning.

• Friday, April 10th 2009 - 11:07 UTC

  Bolivian Congress approves controversial vote law

  

  Bolivia's Congress approved on Thursday the “overall content” of an electoral law hours after President Evo Morales went on hunger strike to protest at opposition lawmakers' efforts to block the bill.

• Friday, April 10th 2009 - 10:56 UTC

  Falkland Islands: Weekly Penguin News Update

  

  Headlines: Drug importers sent to prison; Chief of Police to be formally reprimanded; Illex slow to reach FI zones.

• Friday, April 10th 2009 - 06:11 UTC

  UK top cop quits over security blunder; G-20 policeman suspended

  

  Britain's top counter-terrorism officer has resigned after his security blunder threatened a major anti-terror operation. London Mayor Boris Johnson said he had accepted Assistant Commissioner Bob Quick's resignation with “great reluctance and sadness”.

• Friday, April 10th 2009 - 05:49 UTC

  Brazil offers a billion USD in projects to compensate for Itaipu energy

  

  The Brazilian government is planning to offer a financing package worth one billion US dollars for industrial projects in Paraguay, local financial newspaper Valor Economico reported this week. According to the newspaper, which cited unnamed sources, the financing will be offered through Brazil's National Development Bank, or BNDES.

• Friday, April 10th 2009 - 05:30 UTC

  Easter present for Paraguayan president: a paternity suit

  

  Paraguay’s Christina Democrat party reiterated “full confidence” in President Fernando Lugo who faces a paternity suit alleging that a son was born to the former Roman Catholic bishop five months after he abandoned the church for politics.

• Friday, April 10th 2009 - 05:16 UTC

  Bolivian president on hunger strike to force Congress

  

  Bolivian President Evo Morales went on a hunger strike Thursday to demand Congress pass an electoral law which includes a firm date for December’s general election and other reforms which could make it easier for him to get re-elected and win control of Congress.