Politics

Friday, November 2nd 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Brazil hikes military spending with new defense plan

Brazil has announced it plans to boost military spending by more than 50% in 2008, to around an estimated 5.4 billion US dollars and draw up a new defense plan, but told its neighbors they should not worry.
Friday, November 2nd 2007 - 20:00 UTC
“Supreme Chavez” reforms approved by Venezuelan assembly

Venezuela's National Assembly gave on Friday its final approval to a package of constitutional reforms that strengthens the powers of President Hugo Chavez and his Socialist-Bolivarian republic project.
Friday, November 2nd 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Haiti Sri Lankan UN troops repatriated for sexual abuse

The United Nations announced Friday that it will repatriate more than 100 Sri Lankan peacekeepers serving with the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti on disciplinary grounds.
Friday, November 2nd 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Bachelet sees poverty as the main threat to regional democracy

Chile's Michelle Bachelet who will be hosting the Ibero-American summit next week defended the legitimacy of Latinamerican governments, particularly Venezuela, and insisted that the prevailing consensus among leaders is that poverty represents the main threat for the region.
Thursday, November 1st 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Malvinas issue in UN Ban Ki-moon's Buenos Aires agenda

“Strengthening multilateralism” and the Malvinas issue figure in the agenda United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will be considering with Argentine officials when he visits Buenos Aires next week.
Thursday, November 1st 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Dominique Strauss-Kahn takes IMF helm in reform storm

Frenchman Dominique Strauss-Kahn takes the helm of the International Monetary Fund on Thursday on a critical mission: to restore the aging institution's relevance and finances.
Thursday, November 1st 2007 - 20:00 UTC
London's police guilty over shooting of Brazilian Menezes

The Metropolitan Police has been found guilty of breaching health and safety laws over the shooting of innocent Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes.
Thursday, November 1st 2007 - 20:00 UTC
U.S. pilot who dropped Hiroshima bomb dies

Paul Tibbets, the pilot of the U.S. bomber that dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan on August 6, 1945, died on Thursday at age 92, a newspaper reported.
Thursday, November 1st 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Falklands' veterans at Liberation Monument SAMA dedication

The Falkland Islands will hold on Saturday evening 10 November 2007 a special remembrance service at the Liberation Monument in Stanley, in honour of the Liberation of the Islands 25 years ago, while reflecting on the struggle and sacrifice that made the achievement of those remarkable combined services possible.
Thursday, November 1st 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Uruguay's Botnia plant opening delayed on Spain's request

At the request of Spain Uruguay at last moment postponed the effective start-up of a 1.2 billion US dollars Finnish built pulp mill which has been at the heart of an acrimonious two-year controversy with neighboring Argentina.