Politics

• Wednesday, June 3rd 2009 - 10:51 UTC

  Brazil confirms Air France jet crashed into the Atlantic

  

  Brazil's military has found wreckage from the Air France passenger jet that disappeared with 228 people on board, the country's defence minister says.

• Wednesday, June 3rd 2009 - 10:14 UTC

  OAS summit debates five proposals on the Cuban issue

  

  United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says no consensus has been reached on re-admitting Cuba to the Organization of American States, which suspended the country in 1962 in response to its alliance with the Soviet block in the midst of the Cold War.

• Wednesday, June 3rd 2009 - 09:36 UTC

  “Little-known stories” about 1914 are myths

  

  Last week’s Penguin News carried an article by John Fowler, “War veteran publishes little known stories”, about the account by Colonel Tamaño entitled “Historias poco conocidas: Un ferrocarril en las Malvinas” [“Little-known stories: A railway in the Malvinas”], published recently on the Argentine army website soldadosdigital.com.

• Wednesday, June 3rd 2009 - 06:08 UTC

  Black Thursday anticipated for Labour and several cabinet members

  

  British cabinet member Jacqui Smith is to stand down as home secretary in the cabinet reshuffle, sources close to her have told the BBC. Prime Minister Gordon Brown is set to shake up his cabinet after Thursday's European and English local elections.

• Tuesday, June 2nd 2009 - 13:18 UTC

  Hunt for Air France jet intensifies

  

  Rescuers are searching waters deep in the Atlantic for a French airliner which disappeared in a storm early on Monday. The search, involving ships and planes from many nations, was part-suspended overnight, but aircraft with monitoring equipment continued to scour the sea.

• Tuesday, June 2nd 2009 - 12:48 UTC

  Paraguayan president, tenth Latam leader to visit Cuba this year

  

  Paraguayan president Fernando Lugo is scheduled to arrive in Havana on Tuesday for a two-day visit to Cuba, making him the tenth Latinamerican leader, so far this year, to meet with Cuban president Raul Castro and possibly his ailing brother Fidel.

• Tuesday, June 2nd 2009 - 12:42 UTC

  Nestor Kirchner leads in polls for mid term election, but could not be enough

  

  Former Argentine president Nestor Kirchner who is running for a seat in the Lower House in this month’s mid term elections is ahead in all public opinion polls, although closely followed by the main opposition candidate Francisco de Narvaez.

• Tuesday, June 2nd 2009 - 12:37 UTC

  Argentine industrial union wants to block Venezuela from Mercosur

  

  The powerful Argentine Industrial Union, UIA, has called on its Mercosur peers to impede Venezuela’s incorporation to Mercosur in reprisal for the nationalization spree launched by President Hugo Chavez.

• Tuesday, June 2nd 2009 - 12:35 UTC

  Brazilian public opinion split on Lula da Silva’s re-re-election

  

  Brazilian public opinion is split almost equally on the re-election of President Lula da Silva for a second period, according to the latest poll published in Sao Paulo. Lula da Silva one of Brazil’s most popular leaders in decades has a support of 69% but a constitutional reform is needed if he is to run again in 2010.

• Tuesday, June 2nd 2009 - 10:51 UTC

  OAS Cuba’s sanctions could be lifted Tuesday in Honduras

  

  The Organization of American States, OAS, secretary general Jose Miguel Insulza said he was optimistic that an agreement to lift the suspension on Cuba can be reached at the 39th general assembly which officially begins Tuesday in Honduras.