Politics

• Wednesday, April 14th 2010 - 22:04 UTC

  Depressed by daily news, try 1000awesomethings.com

  

  Depressed by reading bad news daily and with his marriage failing, Canadian Neil Pasricha decided to try to focus on the positive and come up with 1,000 simple, free, awesome things, posting one each day on a blog.

• Wednesday, April 14th 2010 - 20:57 UTC

  Chile and Uruguay support Mr. Kirchner as Unasur chairman

  

  Chile and Uruguay will support former Argentine president Nestor Kirchner for the post of chairman of the Union of South American Nations, Unasur, confirmed in Santiago Ecuadorean Foreign Affairs minister Ricardo Patiño.

• Wednesday, April 14th 2010 - 20:35 UTC

  South Atlantic Royal Navy nuclear powered sub en route to be decommissioned

  

  After a shorter than expected stay in South Africa’s Cape Town, the Royal Navy nuclear-powered, but conventionally armed, fleet submarine HMS Sceptre (S104) departed from Simon's Town naval base having only spent five days in port.

• Wednesday, April 14th 2010 - 20:33 UTC

  Chilean journalist wins 2010 World Press Freedom Award

  

  A Chilean journalist known for her staunch defence of freedom of expression has been awarded the 2010 World Press Freedom Prize.

• Wednesday, April 14th 2010 - 20:28 UTC

  Taiana anticipates better relations with Uruguay following The Hague ruling

  

  Argentine Foreign Affairs Minister Jorge Taiana described bilateral relations with neighbouring Uruguay are “good and will improve” after the International Court of Justice's ruling regarding the placement of the Botnia paper mill on the shores of the Uruguay river is made public on April 20th.

• Wednesday, April 14th 2010 - 07:59 UTC

  “We are building a global role for Argentina”, says CFK after meeting Obama

  

  “We are building a global role for Argentina that it did not have until now” said Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) following a meeting with US President Barack Obama Tuesday in the sidelines of the Nuclear Security Summit.

• Wednesday, April 14th 2010 - 03:56 UTC

  Brazil signs in the Pentagon wide ranging defence cooperation agreement

  

  Brazil and United States signed a military cooperation agreement Monday in the Pentagon, Washington that both sides underlined as an example of partnership and transparency for the Americas.

• Wednesday, April 14th 2010 - 03:52 UTC

  Uruguay/Argentina prepare for International Court ruling on bilateral dispute

  

  A Uruguayan multi-party delegation will be present in The Hague next week when the International Court of Justice makes public its ruling on the Argentine/Uruguayan dispute over the construction of a pulp mill along shared waters.

• Tuesday, April 13th 2010 - 23:58 UTC

  China will reform exchange rate regime at “its own time and needs”

  

  Chinese President Hu Jintao has resisted pressure from US President Obama to raise the value of the Chinese Yuan. He told Mr Obama that it would “neither balance Sino-US trade nor solve the US unemployment problem”, Chinese official news agency Xinhua reported.

• Tuesday, April 13th 2010 - 05:59 UTC

  Argentine Congress paralyzed; senators summoned by the press

  

  Argentine Vice-President and Senate head Julio Cobos published a paid ad in the Monday edition of a Buenos Aires newspaper, where he summons those senators who had been absent to last week's session as a way of exerting pressure for next Wednesday round of debate in the Upper House.