Politics

• Monday, March 24th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Renewed tension: Bogota confirms body belongs to Ecuadorian

  Colombian Defence minister Juan Manuel Santos confirmed Sunday that one of the bodies recovered by Colombian troops when the March first raid on Ecuadorian territory was effectively of an Ecuadorian.

• Monday, March 24th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentine Armed Forces running out of officers

  Argentina is preparing a package of benefits to retain military officers, who are abandoning the services attracted by higher salaries and better working conditions in the civilian sector, reports the Buenos Aires press.

• Sunday, March 23rd 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Pope celebrates Easter Day Mass

  Thousands of pilgrims have packed into St Peter's Square in Rome to hear Pope Benedict XVI celebrate Easter Mass.

• Saturday, March 22nd 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Ecuador warns Colombia over raid

  Ecuador's President Rafael Correa warned on Saturday that diplomatic tension with Colombia will rise if an Ecuadorians was among the dead in a bombing raid on a rebel camp inside its territory this month.

• Saturday, March 22nd 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Falklands: MPs learn plenty in a week

  TWO visiting MPs have said they would leave the Falklands better able to appreciate the issues affecting Islanders.

• Friday, March 21st 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Five years on Iraq faces “terrorism and corruption” disease

  

  Iraqi President Jalal Talabani singled out violence and corruption as the main problems facing his country on the fifth anniversary of the invasion. Talabani welcomed the end of Saddam Hussein's era of “torture and tyranny”, but warned that violence, terrorism and corruption had now become a “disease”.

• Thursday, March 20th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Aircraft remains trawled in S. Atlantic date back to 1961

  

  Remains of a military aircraft trawled by an Argentine fishing vessel 159 kilometers off Santa Cruz belong to an Argentine Navy North American SNJ-5C Texan that went down in 1961 and not to aircrafts involved in the 1982 Falkland Islands conflict as originally believed.

• Thursday, March 20th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Chavez support plummets but opposition still under

  

  Support for Venezuela's president Hugo Chavez government has fallen to its lowest level since 2003, according to a new public opinion poll still reflecting damage from a stinging referendum vote defeat last December.

• Thursday, March 20th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Controversy over public image support for Cristina Kirchner

  

  A controversy over the support for Argentine president Cristina Kirchner has been triggered by the publication in the Buenos Aires press of a public opinion poll which shows her rating falling six points to 47%.

• Wednesday, March 19th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Gurkhas hand back medals in protest and justice

  

  Thousands of retired Gurkha soldiers are to gather outside Parliament to campaign for justice and fair treatment.