Politics

Monday, March 24th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Falkland Islands: Weekly Penguin News update

Headlines: A closely fought race; Drug men don't have to leave; Seabed survey; FIDC boss goes; Quartet of cruisers; Good Friday.
Monday, March 24th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Farmers' conflict in Argentina seems out of control

Argentine industrialists and teamsters called on Sunday for dialogue to end the farmers' massive, crippling strike which threatens to leave the main cities short of meat, dairy produce and other food staples. The protest begun ten days ago and there's no solution on sight.
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.