Politics

• Tuesday, November 17th 2009 - 12:39 UTC

  Federal Reserve working to “help ensure that the US dollar is strong”

  

  United States Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke said Monday that US policymakers are mindful of the sliding US dollar. Bernanke said he is “attentive” to the decline in the currency and is working to “help ensure that the dollar is strong”.

• Tuesday, November 17th 2009 - 12:38 UTC

  Brown proposes Afghanistan campaign “transfer timetable” talks

  

  UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown plans to host talks in the New Year to discuss timing for handing over the campaign in Afghanistan to the Afghan government. PM Brown said he wanted the NATO meeting to “set a timetable” for transfer starting in 2010.

• Tuesday, November 17th 2009 - 09:14 UTC

  Shimon Peres in Argentina proposes “a new relation for a new world”

  

  Israeli President Shimon Peres met on Monday with Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. Shimon arrived on Sunday in Argentina, home to Latin America's biggest Jewish community for a two-day visit.

• Tuesday, November 17th 2009 - 09:10 UTC

  Latinamerica at the heart of a climate change deal, says Miliband

  

  United Kingdom Foreign Secretary David Miliband said on Monday a politically binding deal on climate change will only be struck with the agreement of leading South American countries.

• Tuesday, November 17th 2009 - 09:08 UTC

  Argentina’s first gay couple marriage scheduled for December, AIDS Day

  

  An Argentine gay couple that was enabled by a Buenos Aires City court ruling to get married after declaring the articles of the Civic Code that prohibit it as unconstitutional, requested on Monday a wedding date, according to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transvestite Federation (LGBT).

• Tuesday, November 17th 2009 - 09:00 UTC

  Royal Navy’s new hunter nuclear submarine “Astute” takes to the sea

  

  The biggest and most powerful attack submarine ever built for the Royal Navy, “Astute” took to the seas this weekend. “Astute” set sail from Barrow-in-Furness to start her first set of sea trials and is now heading to her homeport of Faslane on the Clyde in Scotland.

• Monday, November 16th 2009 - 23:50 UTC

  International Liberal support for Micheletti and Honduras election

  

  Honduras de facto leader Roberto Micheletti has been named vice-president of the Liberal International organization in spite of the fact he is not recognized by a majority of the international community.

• Monday, November 16th 2009 - 23:45 UTC

  Bolivian December election is focused on control of the Senate

  

  Bolivian president Evo Morales continues to lead comfortably public opinion polls with only three weeks for the presidential election scheduled for December 6. Five million Bolivians are registered to vote.

• Monday, November 16th 2009 - 20:21 UTC

  Chile’s December election: 100.000 registered to vote in Magallanes

  

  Almost 100.000 residents are registered in Magallanes Region to vote on December 13th Chilean general elections which will decide on the country’s next president and regional members for the Lower House in Santiago.

• Monday, November 16th 2009 - 19:57 UTC

  New Chairman for South Georgia Association

  

  The South Georgia Association has announced the name of its new chairman.
  He is Professor David J. Drewry, a former director of the Scott Polar Research Institute and of the British Antarctic Survey and Director General of the British Council, who has recently retired as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hull.