Politics

• Wednesday, November 11th 2009 - 04:26 UTC

  UK proposal turns south of South Orkney Islands a Marine Protected Area

  

  The British Government announced on Tuesday an ambitious plan at enhancing environmental protection of the world’s oceans and the Antarctic and including the designation of the world first “high seas” marine protected area south of the South Orkney Islands (once a Falklands dependency).

• Tuesday, November 10th 2009 - 12:08 UTC

  Extraordinary OAS meeting to consider the Honduran situation

  

  The Organization of American States Permanent Council will hold an extraordinary meeting Tuesday to assess the situation in Honduras following the interruption of the process agreed by both sides to end the several months political crisis.

• Tuesday, November 10th 2009 - 12:00 UTC

  On Berlin Wall Fall anniversary world leaders pledge to battle injustice

  

  World leaders marking the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall's fall have said the battle against injustice around the world must continue. German Chancellor Angela Merkel was joined at the Brandenburg Gate by UK PM Gordon Brown, France's Nicolas Sarkozy and top US diplomat Hillary Clinton.
  They warned human rights were still under threat for millions of people.

• Tuesday, November 10th 2009 - 11:53 UTC

  Mrs. Kirchner blames opposition and the press for social unrest feeling

  

  In the midst of growing social unrest which has taken to the streets of Buenos Aires to protest, Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner said Monday that she believes in order, in organization, but not through repression.

• Tuesday, November 10th 2009 - 11:50 UTC

  Argentine Church concerned with “social tension and coexistence problems”

  

  The Argentine Catholic Church showed their “great concern” on “the social tension and coexistence problems” in the country and demanded “consensus and dialogue” during the opening of this year's last plenary of Bishops at Pilar district, Buenos Aires province.

• Tuesday, November 10th 2009 - 08:41 UTC

  Colombia will appeal to UN and OAS following Chavez war threats

  

  Colombia said on Sunday it will appeal to the United Nations Security Council and the Organization of American States after President Hugo Chavez from neighbouring Venezuela ordered his army to prepare for war in order to assure peace.

• Tuesday, November 10th 2009 - 08:40 UTC

  Pope Benedict invites divided Anglicans back to the Catholic Church

  

  The Vatican has offered to allow conservative Anglican clergy to join a special section of the Catholic Church. They would be able to retain the Anglican liturgy and a married priesthood.

• Tuesday, November 10th 2009 - 08:29 UTC

  “The main credit for the fall of the Berlin Wall belongs to Pope John Paul II”

  

  The main honour and credit for the fall of the Berlin Wall belongs to Pope John Paul II and it is wrong to say it was the work of former Soviet president Mijail Gorbachev said the historic leader of Poland’s Solidarity movement and later head of state Lech Walesa

• Tuesday, November 10th 2009 - 08:17 UTC

  Rio do Janeiro: police “wild west tactics” behind 10.000 death toll in 12 years

  

  An independent study in Brazil suggests that the soaring number of police killings of suspected criminals in Rio do Janeiro's war on drugs is linked to bonuses now paid to “courageous” police officers, according to a newspaper report Monday.

• Tuesday, November 10th 2009 - 08:09 UTC

  Mini-skirt student with “provocative attitudes” expelled from Brazilian university

  

  In Brazil, famed for its tiny bikinis and carefree attitude, a university student has been expelled after violent protests by students and professors outraged at the short mini skirt she wore on campus and her “provocative attitude”.