Politics

• Wednesday, January 27th 2010 - 15:06 UTC

  Venezuelan students protest against Chavez media: two dead

  

  College students opposed to Venezuela’s populist government protested on Tuesday outside the headquarters of state-run VTV television against the network’s “violent discourse.”

• Wednesday, January 27th 2010 - 14:51 UTC

  New chapter for Honduras: Lobo takes office, Zelaya off to Dominican Republic

  

  Honduras president elect Porfirio Lobo takes office on Wednesday the same day deposed Honduran leader Manuel Zelaya finally leave the Brazilian embassy where he has been holed up for more than four months.

• Wednesday, January 27th 2010 - 14:47 UTC

  Iraq veteran will represent England in Miss World final in South Africa

  

  A soldier who has served in Iraq has been officially crowned Miss England after the original winner relinquished the title last year to clear her name.

• Wednesday, January 27th 2010 - 14:44 UTC

  Former Guatemalan president accused of money laundering is arrested

  

  Ex-Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo, facing money-laundering charges in the United States was captured Tuesday on a farm on the Guatemalan coast, that country's attorney general said.

• Wednesday, January 27th 2010 - 14:40 UTC

  US 2010 budget deficit estimated at 9.2% of GDP, second highest

  

  The United States Congressional Budget Office, CBO released Tuesday its 10 year budget projections which includes a deficit for this fiscal year of 1.3 trillion US dollars, equivalent to 9.2% of GDP.

• Wednesday, January 27th 2010 - 14:34 UTC

  Beijing drastic decision to cap excessive lending shakes world markets

  

  Asian markets suffered their biggest one-day losses in three months, as fears over planned limits on lending by banks in China unnerved investors already jumpy at proposed curbs on United States banks.

• Wednesday, January 27th 2010 - 14:32 UTC

  Brazilian ruling coalition fears division among left wing voters

  

  Brazil’ ruling Workers Party presidential hopeful Dilma Rousseff admitted that there was concern over the impact of a divided left ahead for the coming October presidential election, as happened in Chile where the conservative Coalition for Change defeated the ruling Concertacion in office for two decades.

• Wednesday, January 27th 2010 - 11:21 UTC

  Patagonian ports open to Chinese jiggers if they have no links with Falklands

  

  Argentine Fisheries Under-secretary Norberto Yauhar is sponsoring a fishing cooperation agreement with Beijing that will allow Chinese flagged vessels to enter Argentine ports for provisions, repairs, unloading catches and landing transfers. The only condition is that the Chinese vessels must not have commercial ties with the Falkland Islands government.

• Tuesday, January 26th 2010 - 16:16 UTC

  Argentina rejects UK protest and territorial pretensions over the Falklands

  

  Argentina officially rejected Monday the United Kingdom’s protest against a bill which includes as Argentine territory the Falklands/Malvinas islands and other insular territories in the South Atlantic, according to a release in Buenos Aires from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

• Tuesday, January 26th 2010 - 13:32 UTC

  Indian commander celebrates 60th Republic Day in the Falklands

  

  Commander Dilip Donde, the first Indian attempting a solo circumnavigation voyage of the earth, will celebrate on Tuesday India’s 60th Republic Day by unfurling the national flag on his yacht, INSV Mhadei, docked at Port Stanley in the Falklands Islands, nearly 13,000 km from his homeland, according to reports in the Mumbai press