Politics

• Wednesday, December 9th 2009 - 00:23 UTC

  Woman elected president to the Brazil’s most popular football club

  

  Former swimmer Patricia Amorim became the first woman to be elected president of Flamengo, the most popular football club in Brazil.

• Wednesday, December 9th 2009 - 00:17 UTC

  Spain formally apologizes for hot pursuit “error” in Gibraltar waters

  

  A dramatic hot pursuit at sea by Spanish Civil Guards of two suspected smugglers whose vessel crashed into the rocks in Gibraltar avoided becoming a major political incident with Spain apologising for the “error” just a few hours later on Monday night, reports the Gibraltar Chronicle.

• Wednesday, December 9th 2009 - 00:03 UTC

  Mike Summers chairman of Falklands Overseas Games Association

  

  Following sixteen years as Chairman of the Falkland Islands Overseas Games Association (FIOGA) and the previous two years as Vice-Chairman, Patrick Watts M.B.E confirmed his decision not to seek re-election at the 2009 Annual General Meeting of FIOGA held on 03 December 2009.
  Mike Summers O.B.E. a former member of the Executive and Legislative Councils of the Falkland Islands was elected to replace Mr Watts.

• Tuesday, December 8th 2009 - 23:30 UTC

  Six charged with the death in 1982 of former Chilean president

  

  A Chilean judge has charged six people over the death in 1982 of the country's ex-President, Eduardo Frei Montalva. The judge said there was now evidence that Mr Frei, a vocal critic of military leader Augusto Pinochet, had been poisoned in hospital.

• Tuesday, December 8th 2009 - 14:07 UTC

  Mercosur promotes trade with local currencies, far from “US dollar tensions”

  

  Mercosur is considering extending a “successful” Brazil/Argentina bilateral trade experience which sidelines the US dollar and privileges regional currencies to the rest of the group’s full members, Paraguay and Uruguay, thus avoiding being submitted to the “greenback’s tensions”.

• Tuesday, December 8th 2009 - 09:04 UTC

  Sawle thanks UK for unconditional commitment to Falklands’ self-determination

  

  The Falklands’ electorate vote for complete change, the UK’s unconditional commitment to the Islanders right to self-determination, economic diversification and development, Argentine next of kin humanitarian visits, were among the issues discussed Monday by Falklands Legislative Assembly member Dick Sawle and Foreign Office Minister Chris Bryant.

• Tuesday, December 8th 2009 - 07:20 UTC

  Overseas Territories meet in London on tenth anniversary of milestone White Paper

  

  Foreign Office Minister Chris Bryant will be hosting in London the eleventh meeting of the Overseas Territories Consultative Council (OTCC) on Wednesday 9 December. This is a key event in the British government /Overseas Territories calendar.

• Tuesday, December 8th 2009 - 04:18 UTC

  Honduras winning party with strong majority in Congress

  

  Honduras November 29th election winner (Conservative) National party will have a clear majority in Congress according to the latest reports from the country’s electoral authorities.

• Tuesday, December 8th 2009 - 04:14 UTC

  Venezuela tackles crime, 20% of which committed by the police force

  

  Almost a fifth of all registered crimes in Venezuela are committed by law enforcement officers, particularly those most violent such as kidnapping and homicides, revealed Home Secretary Tareck El Aisammi.

• Tuesday, December 8th 2009 - 04:03 UTC

  Sao Paulo gang digs their way into a vault and 6 million US dollars

  

  A Brazilian gang robbed ten million Reais (approximately six million US dollars) from the vault of a securities transport company after tunnelling from a neighbouring house to the west of Sao Paulo.