Politics

• Tuesday, April 13th 2010 - 02:35 UTC

  Polish tragedy marks European Union first day of official mourning

  

  Russia and the European Union marked Monday an official day of mourning as Poland observes a week of commemoration following the deaths of President Lech Kaczynski, the first lady, and dozens of senior Polish leaders and military officials in a plane crash in Russia on Saturday.

• Tuesday, April 13th 2010 - 00:25 UTC

  Washington Post ad calls on Mrs Kirchner to cancel coal plant in Patagonia

  

  In an attempt to take advantage of President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner's visit to the US (CFK is attending the Nuclear Security Summit), Greenpeace has posted a paid announcement on The Washington Post newspaper as a way to protest against the construction of a coal-fuelled power plant in Río Turbio, Santa Cruz province.

• Monday, April 12th 2010 - 23:12 UTC

  Castro brothers against opening Cuba, because that’s the end of them, claims Clinton

  

  The Cuban brothers Fidel and Raúl Castro do not want to normalize ties with Washington because they would “lose their excuses” for the country's lack of development and openness, said US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaking at the University of Louisville in Kentucky.

• Monday, April 12th 2010 - 23:04 UTC

  Mercosur and EU trade negotiators must “deliver” before May summit

  

  Mercosur is waiting for “dialogue contributions” from the European Union to decide on negotiations for a political and commercial agreement with the EU. Brussels is expected to make its move at the end of April on time for a formal launching in May of the decade-long delayed but very much needed block to block talks.

• Monday, April 12th 2010 - 05:20 UTC

  Chilean Army de-mining fields bordering the Magellan Strait

  

  Chile’s Army demining team announced last week the clearance of 5.799 mines in the north of Tierra del Fuego next to the so called Primera Angostura (First Narrow) of the Magellan Strait.

• Monday, April 12th 2010 - 05:18 UTC

  Living myth Fidel Castro, “a man with a superior intellect by heartless”

  

  Dissident Cuban neurosurgeon Hilda Molina, now living in Argentina, said in an interview that Fidel Castro once felt “a very marked inclination” towards her.

• Monday, April 12th 2010 - 05:13 UTC

  Kissinger accused of turning blind eye to Latam military regimes political killings

  

  Henry Kissinger while United States Secretary of State, halted a plan to warn South American military regimes against international political assassinations such as those involving the 1976 death in Washington of former Chilean minister Orlando Letelier, a document shows.

• Monday, April 12th 2010 - 05:09 UTC

  Hollywood stars support natural park conservation project in Ecuador

  

  Hollywood stars Leonardo Di Caprio and Glenn Close are willing to support an environment-conservation project in Ecuador that would prevent the extraction of 850 million barrels of oil from the Amazon.

• Monday, April 12th 2010 - 05:05 UTC

  Serra proclaimed opposition candidate saying that “Brazil can do better”

  

  A coalition of Brazilian opposition parties officially endorsed economist Jose Serra last Saturday as its candidate in October’s presidential elections under the slogan “Brazil can do better”.

• Monday, April 12th 2010 - 05:03 UTC

  Patagonia indigenous had highly organized, dynamic and hierarchical society

  

  Argentine and Spanish researchers have shown that indigenous societies in Patagonia, the southernmost region of the Earth inhabited by humans over the past 13,000 years, were not static and marginal as had always been thought, but in fact had high levels of social organisation.