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Politics

  • Thursday, June 25th 2009 - 17:10 UTC

    Former Falklands Chief Executive becomes a clergyman

    Michael Blanch when he was posted to the Falklands

    A former Chief Executive of the Falkland Islands government is to become a clergyman in the Yorkshire Dales. Michael Blanch is to serve as curate at Askrigg united with Stallingbusk, according to press reports from North Yorkshire.

  • Thursday, June 25th 2009 - 09:49 UTC

    Washington and Venezuela agree to re-establish their ambassadors

    Chavez and Obama’s premonitory handshake in Trinidad Tobago.

    Venezuela and United States will be re-establishing their ambassadors in the coming days, confirmed on Wednesday Venezuelan Foreign Affairs minister Nicolas Maduro Ambassadors Bernardo Alvarez and Patrick Duddy were withdrawn last September when hostility between President Hugo Chavez and former President George Bush climaxed following years of disagreements and diplomatic clashes.

  • Wednesday, June 24th 2009 - 15:25 UTC

    Obama praises Bachelet and Lula da Silva as “model relations”

    Presidents Bachelet and Obama at the White House

    United States president described his Chilean peer Michelle Bachelet as “one of the most compelling leaders” of Latinamerica and together with Brazil’s Lula da Silva they are an “example” of the kind of relations Washington wants with the region.

  • Wednesday, June 24th 2009 - 08:43 UTC

    UK says Falklands should be out of UN non self-governing territories list

    Janet Robertson asked C24 why only Gibraltarians and Falkland Islanders are denied a right to self-determination.

    The United Kingdom spokesman Chris Bryant said that the British position is that Gibraltar, the Falklands or any other Overseas Territories should not be included on the United Nations list of non self-governing territories.

  • Wednesday, June 24th 2009 - 08:32 UTC

    Kirchner, “one of the best neighbours Uruguay has ever had”

    Former president Jorge Batlle looked at the positive side of the Kirchners aggressive policy towards Uruguay.

    Former Uruguayan president Jorge Batlle forecasted that Nestor Kirchner is going to be the main looser in next Sunday’s Argentine mid term elections, although he described the former Argentine president as “one of the best neighbours ever, for Uruguay’s interests”.

  • Wednesday, June 24th 2009 - 07:58 UTC

    Criminal charges for MPs who make false allowances claims

    PM Brown wants the new legislation approved before recess at the end of July

    British Members of Parliament who make false allowances claims could face criminal charges under new measures announced by Commons Leader Harriet Harman. She said the Parliamentary Standards Bill would create new criminal offences as well as establishing an independent body to oversee a reformed system of MPs' pay and perks.

  • Tuesday, June 23rd 2009 - 11:54 UTC

    Itaipu dispute postpones Mercosur presidential summit in Paraguay

    The former bishop and former trade union leader can’t agree on the power bill

    The Mercosur presidential summit has been postponed for July 24 and 25 it was reported Monday from Asunción, Paraguay, the host of the event. Three of the four full members of the trade group, Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay, proposed the change from the original July 3 and 4 arguing political and electoral reasons.

  • Tuesday, June 23rd 2009 - 11:40 UTC

    The Economist: the glass empties for the Kirchners

    The Kirchners turned the election into a plebiscite on their economic policies

    Recession and political mistakes by the first couple point to a change in the balance of power. But will Argentina at last acquire a more coherent opposition?

  • Tuesday, June 23rd 2009 - 11:14 UTC

    Tory named Speaker of the House of Commons

    Mr. “clean-break” promised a period of change and reform

    Britain’s opposition Conservative Member of Parliament Tory John Bercow won the race to replace Michael Martin as Speaker of the House of Commons. Mr Bercow, MP for Buckingham, topped all three secret ballots - beating his only challenger in the third round, Sir George Young - by 51 votes.

  • Tuesday, June 23rd 2009 - 08:01 UTC

    Argentine industry warns of “political crisis”, more serious than “economic crisis

    Hector Mendez claims the electoral campaign debate has been driven into a situation of extreme tension for the whole community.

    The head of Argentina’s powerful Industrial Union, UIA, said the country is going through “a political crisis” which is more severe than the economic crisis and ventured that the current electoral climate “does not offer significant political alternatives or leaderships”.