Politics

• Monday, April 13th 2009 - 07:23 UTC

  Paraguayan president ready to face paternity charges

  

  Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo is ready to go to court on paternity charges filed by a woman who later denied the fact. Communication Minister Augusto dos Santos told reporters that next Tuesday he will answer questions from the press on the matter.

• Monday, April 13th 2009 - 06:48 UTC

  Fasting Bolivian president cancels trips to regional summits

  

  Bolivian President Evo Morales said on Sunday that he had cancelled his trips to the ALBA summit and the Summit of the Americas because of Bolivia’s internal problems caused by the conflict with the opposition over a law regarding the December 6 elections.

• Sunday, April 12th 2009 - 19:09 UTC

  Urbi et Orbi message of his holiness pope Benedict XVI

  

  From the depths of my heart, I wish all of you a blessed Easter. To quote Saint Augustine, “Resurrectio Domini, spes nostra – the resurrection of the Lord is our hope” (Sermon 261:1). With these words, the great Bishop explained to the faithful that Jesus rose again so that we, though destined to die, should not despair, worrying that with death life is completely finished; Christ is risen to give us hope (cf. ibid.).

• Sunday, April 12th 2009 - 11:20 UTC

  Peru: Rebels kill 13 soldiers in the jungle

  

  Peru's Shining Path rebels have killed 13 soldiers in two ambushes in the south-east of the country, the country's defence minister says.

• Sunday, April 12th 2009 - 06:22 UTC

  Summit of the Americas: President Obama haunted by ghost of Cuba

  

  Mr Obama will announce that Washington is lifting the toughest restrictions on travel to the island for Cuban-Americans and the dollar remittances they can send back to impoverished relatives.

• Saturday, April 11th 2009 - 08:28 UTC

  Pope’s Good Friday special prayer for survivors of earthquake

  

  Pope Benedict reflected on the tragedies and disasters that test faith during a Good Friday procession in Rome, just hours after Italians buried victims of the country's devastating earthquake.

• Saturday, April 11th 2009 - 08:27 UTC

  CNN opinion poll in US shows 71% support relations with Cuba

  

  A new poll from CNN shows that two-thirds of US citizens surveyed think the US should lift its travel ban on Cuba, and three-quarters think the US should end its five-decade estrangement with the country.

• Friday, April 10th 2009 - 20:08 UTC

  Italy: Day of mourning for quake victims

  

  Grieving relatives collapsed over flower-draped caskets of the victims of Italy's worst earthquake in three decades as the nation joined in a day of mourning.

• Friday, April 10th 2009 - 11:07 UTC

  Bolivian Congress approves controversial vote law

  

  Bolivia's Congress approved on Thursday the “overall content” of an electoral law hours after President Evo Morales went on hunger strike to protest at opposition lawmakers' efforts to block the bill.

• Friday, April 10th 2009 - 10:56 UTC

  Falkland Islands: Weekly Penguin News Update

  

  Headlines: Drug importers sent to prison; Chief of Police to be formally reprimanded; Illex slow to reach FI zones.