Politics

Friday, September 28th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Falkland Islands: Weekly Penguin News update

Headlines:
New Cathedral minister licensed to preach; Racecourse secured for next 15 years; Ferry's arrival may be delayed; South Georgia fishing talks; Men remanded in police custody; Agreement on Camp telephones is 'close'; Peat Cutting weekend.
Friday, September 28th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Iranian leader cements Chavez relationship

Venezuelan and Iranian presidents Hugo Chávez and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ratified their “anti-imperialist” stance and assured a “new time of justice” for the oppressed peoples around the world is starting.
Friday, September 28th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Royal Marines back in the Falklands for Exercise Commando Strike

Forty British Royal Marines Reserve (RMR) Commandos from RMR Merseyside are heading back to the Falkland Islands next week 25 years on from the original South Atlantic conflict.
Friday, September 28th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
European Strauss-Kahn selected to lead IMF by ample “consensus”

Former French finance minister Dominique Strauss-Kahn was selected September 28 as the new Managing Director of the IMF. The IMF Executive Board said it selected Strauss-Kahn, 58, by consensus to succeed Rodrigo de Rato for a five-year term beginning November 1.
Friday, September 28th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
UN Standing Police Capacity officers to train in UK

Officers from the United Nations Standing Police Capacity will undergo two weeks of training in transitional justice and other aspects of peacekeeping at the top police leadership centre in the United Kingdom from 8-19 October ahead of deployment to their first mission, revealed senior UN Police officers in New York.
Thursday, September 27th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Bolivia ignores US warnings and reaches out to Iran

Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and a delegation of 35 officials arrived Thursday morning in La Paz for a half day visit to Bolivia as part of Teheran's policy to break increasing international isolation, which is welcomed by left leaning regimes in the region anxious to counterweight United States influence.
Thursday, September 27th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Venezuela's Mercosur incorporation before Brazilian Congress

The Brazilian Lower House Foreign Affairs Committee begun this week to consider the official documents of Venezuela's incorporation to Mercosur, a long delayed process with still an arduous path ahead before its final approval and which has irritated relations between Caracas and Brasilia.
Thursday, September 27th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Iran rejects Kirchner claims and points to Judiciary “corruption”

Iran strongly rejected on Thursday Argentine President Nestor Kirchner's claim that the country failed to cooperate in a probe of a 1994 terror bombing in Buenos Aires which left hundreds dead and maimed.
Thursday, September 27th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
US/Peru trade pact vote signals change in Democrats stance

The free trade pact between the United States and Peru won bipartisan support in a crucial Congressional committee this week signaling that some opposition Democrats will be receptive to new trade deals as long as they call on other nations to adhere to international labor and environmental standards.
Thursday, September 27th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Chile confirms US trade threat in run-up to Iraq war

Current Chilean Ambassador to the United Nations, Heraldo Muñoz, confirmed this week that, in the run up to the Iraq war, the U.S. government made clear to Chile that it risked jeopardizing the Free-Trade Agreement (FTA) between the two countries if it did not support a second resolution in the UN Security Council favoring the U.S. invasion of Iraq.