Politics

Thursday, April 2nd 2009 - 13:47 UTC
Mrs. Kirchner approach to Malvinas issue infuriates Jewish community

Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner strong lobbying for support from the Arab League in its dispute with Britain over the Falkland Islands is proving to be a short lived pyrrhic victory since she involved Argentina in the Palestine question and infuriated the Jewish community.
Thursday, April 2nd 2009 - 13:26 UTC
Argentina mourns Alfonsin more revered in death than in life

Thousands of Argentines have marched and thousands more were queuing Wednesday night to render their respects to former Argentine president Raul Alfonsin, who died on Tuesday evening and has been enshrined as the man who following the defeat of the Argentine dictatorship in the Falkland Islands conflict, helped start in 1983 the longest period of electoral democracy in this politically turbulent country.
Thursday, April 2nd 2009 - 10:27 UTC
Mrs. Kirchner’s Malvinas Veteran Day message from London

On the 27th anniversary of the Argentine landing in Falklands/Malvinas, which triggered the South Atlantic conflict in 1982, the Argentine government will commemorate Thursday April 2 the Day of the Veteran and the Fallen in the Malvinas War.
Thursday, April 2nd 2009 - 09:03 UTC
Misleading opinion polls confuse Uruguayan primary election

Two public opinion polls released this week ahead of Uruguay’s June’s primary election when political parties must choose their presidential candidates virtually coincide in the standing of the different hopefuls. However they differ dramatically regarding the overall vote: ruling coalition versus the opposition.
Thursday, April 2nd 2009 - 07:14 UTC
London police promises to track down and prosecute violent protestors

Anti G-20 summit protestors rioted in downtown London but Scotland Yard has said that all violent protesters who attacked police and stormed a bank will be tracked down and prosecuted.
Thursday, April 2nd 2009 - 06:06 UTC
US and Gibraltar sign agreement to exchange data on tax matters

United States Department of the Treasury and the Government of Gibraltar announced in London in the framework of the G20 summit that the two countries have signed an agreement to allow for exchange of information on tax matters between the United States and Gibraltar, reports the Gibraltar Chronicle.
Thursday, April 2nd 2009 - 05:10 UTC
Obama warns peers against giving in to “fear” and blame game

US President Barack Obama warned G20 leaders against giving in to “fear” and getting into a blame game, on the eve of the crunch summit to rescue the global economy. At a joint press conference with Gordon Brown, the president admitted that the US had some “accounting to do” over its responsibility for the crisis. But he also insisted that financial regulatory systems had been “mismatched” all around the world.
Thursday, April 2nd 2009 - 04:59 UTC
G20 summit hammering out consensus for Thursday’s formal meeting

France and Germany called for tougher regulation for the world's financial system during the first day of the G20 summit in London. French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who has threatened to walk out of the meeting, said that new financial regulation was a “non-negotiable goal”.
Wednesday, April 1st 2009 - 11:45 UTC
Argentina mourns the leader who paved the way to democracy in 1983

Raúl Alfonsín whose presidency marked the return of democracy to Argentina and became a beacon for change in the rest of Latinamerica scourged by an era of military dictatorships, died Tuesday evening.
Wednesday, April 1st 2009 - 10:29 UTC
Obama in London to convince G-20 he can lead the world out of recession

United States President Barack Obama is in the United Kingdom for his first major foreign trip since taking office in January. In London he is to attend the G20 summit of the world’s 20 major economies representing 85% of global GDP, which is hosted by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. The two will have breakfast talks in Downing Street on Wednesday followed by meetings with other world leaders.