Politics

• Wednesday, June 10th 2009 - 13:21 UTC

  Flight 447: Airlines rush to change Airbus speed sensors

  

  As Brazilian divers continue to recover bodies and remains of Air France Flight 447 wreckage, airlines worldwide are scrambling to replace plane speed sensors on a number of Airbus jets in the aftermath of the accident.

• Wednesday, June 10th 2009 - 08:00 UTC

  Over 70 Argentine officers face trial for torturing conscripts in Malvinas

  

  An Argentine federal judge considers the abuses allegedly suffered, --in over eighty cases-- by Malvinas war veterans during the 1982 Malvinas war as “crimes against humanity” and therefore “imprescriptible”, according to reports in the Buenos Aires press.

• Wednesday, June 10th 2009 - 07:46 UTC

  Peruvian minister resigns over killings in clashes with Indians

  

  Carmen Vildoso, Peru's Minister of Woman's Affairs and Social Development, submitted her resignation from the cabinet late Monday on discrepancies over how the government managed the unrest of indigenous peoples in northern Peru that left at least sixty dead and dozens wounded.

• Wednesday, June 10th 2009 - 02:39 UTC

  Argentina declares Darwin memorial “national historic place”

  

  The Argentine cemetery in Darwin, Falkland Islands, has been declared by the Argentine government a “national historic place”. The bill with the initiative was approved by Congress on May 13 and promulgated June 4th, according to the Tuesday publication in the official gazette.

• Tuesday, June 9th 2009 - 12:56 UTC

  Leader of Peruvian Indian protests takes refuge in Nicaraguan embassy

  

  The wanted leader of protesting the Peruvian Amazon region Indians has been granted diplomatic asylum at the Nicaraguan embassy and is waiting for a safe conduct announced Monday Prime Minister Yehude Simon in a presentation to members of Congress.

• Tuesday, June 9th 2009 - 10:01 UTC

  Air France pilots’ union demand replacement of speed sensors

  

  An Air France labour union of pilots called on its members to refuse to fly Airbus A330s and A340s until the airline replaces speed sensors after investigators said the equipment probably played a role in June first Flighty 447 plane crash.

• Tuesday, June 9th 2009 - 09:47 UTC

  World military expenditure in 2008 totalled 1.46 trillion, up 45% since 1999

  

  United States spent 607 billion US dollars on its military in 2008, accounting for 42% of the total world military expenditure for the year with China, France and the United Kingdom far behind, according to the 2009 Yearbook on Armaments, Disarmament and International Security, issued by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, SIPRI, on Monday.

• Tuesday, June 9th 2009 - 09:29 UTC

  Insulza trusts dialogue will lift embargo and bring Cuba back to OAS

  

  The head of the Organization of American States, OAS said he was hopeful that with the revoke of sanctions to Cuba, the US embargo would eventually be lifted and Havana would rejoin the 34-member organization, but much dialogue would be required.

• Tuesday, June 9th 2009 - 09:25 UTC

  It’s official: Cuba thanks sanctions’ revoke but says No to OAS

  

  Cuba has formally rejected re-joining the Organization of American States, days after the group revoked Cuba's expulsion from the OAS nearly 50 years ago. Cuba's official media published a government statement Monday saying Cuba's values are incompatible with what it described as the group's neo-liberal values of capitalism and self-promotion.

• Tuesday, June 9th 2009 - 05:18 UTC

  Falklands call for Argentine Co-operation

  

  The Falklands Islands Government has again called on Argentina to join with them in maintaining good co-operative relations and welcomed the agreement for the forthcoming Argentine relatives’ pilgrimage to inaugurate the Falklands cemetery Darwin where their 1982 war dead are buried. The Islanders also respect the need for Argentine veterans of the war to visit the battlefields where they fought.