Politics

• Thursday, June 11th 2009 - 10:12 UTC

  Spain warns about “delisting” and “colonialism by consent” at C24

  

  The Spanish Government made a short but sharp intervention at the start of United Nations C24 session stating Spain's “firm wish to renew conversations with the United Kingdom within the framework of the Brussels process”.

• Thursday, June 11th 2009 - 10:10 UTC

  Spain promises to boost stalled EU/Mercosur negotiations

  

  The financial crisis should be the springboard for a “leap forward” in negotiations for the association agreement between the European Union and Mercosur, said Spain’s Secretary of State for Ibero-America currently on a tour of Mercosur country members.

• Thursday, June 11th 2009 - 06:36 UTC

  MPs expenses: independent regulator and aired in internet

  

  British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has set out plans for urgent legislative action to clean up Parliament in the wake of the expenses scandal. Brown said new legislation will be published before MPs rise for their summer break to create an independent regulator of Parliament and a code of conduct for MPs' behaviour.

• Thursday, June 11th 2009 - 06:30 UTC

  Peru’s Congress suspends land laws that triggered violent clashes

  

  Peru's Congress voted on Wednesday to temporarily suspend two land laws that ignited violent clashes between protesting indigenous groups and security forces last week killing at least 60 and claims of missing protestors.

• Thursday, June 11th 2009 - 03:20 UTC

  Argentine opposition calls for close trade, education, culture ties with Falklands

  

  Argentina should insist in developing the natural interdependency between the Malvinas Islands and the rest of Argentine territory, promoting sea and air links to help develop trade, educational and cultural ties with Islanders, according to Hipolito Solari Irigoyen, a political figure from the opposition Radical party and international jurist.

• Wednesday, June 10th 2009 - 13:29 UTC

  Falklands set for ‘peaceful’ relationship with new FCO Overseas Territory official?

  

  The Falkland Islands may be set to have a more peaceful relationship with the new Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the Overseas Territories, than with the last.

• 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.