Politics

Sunday, August 5th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
UN food for victims of floods and deep freeze in S. America

United Nations is helping to provide emergency food to nearly 100,000 people after the worst floods in decades in Colombia and the coldest weather in 30 years in Peru brought even more misery to over 1 million of Latin America's most impoverished inhabitants
Friday, August 3rd 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Argentina offered end of pickets for delay in opening pulp mill

Uruguay rejected an Argentine proposal for a truce in the pulp mills conflict during the recent two days technical meeting held earlier this week in New York under the “dialogue facilitating efforts” of the Spanish Crown.
Friday, August 3rd 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Chilean Congress approves free trade agreement with Japan

The Chilean Senate ratified this week the first free trade agreement with Japan and next week Chile is scheduled to begin a round of bilateral negotiations with Australia hoping to reach a similar free trade agreement.
Friday, August 3rd 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Falkland Islands: Penguin News Weekly Update

Headlines: Scouting centenary celebrated worldwide; No vacancy for vet with 'limited experience' says FIG; Shortlist for post of Chief Executive; New Minister confirms policy.
Friday, August 3rd 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Change is just beginning says candidate Cristina Kirchner

Argentine Senator and presidential candidate Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner said that in Argentina “change is just beginning” because the current President Kirchner administration has managed to reinstate the constitutional democratic system.
Friday, August 3rd 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Bolivian peasants promised 30 million hectares of land

Bolivian president Evo Morales signed Thursday a decree which further advances his controversial “agrarian revolution” of expropriation of idle land to distribute among the aboriginal population and which is strongly resisted by business sectors.
Wednesday, August 1st 2007 - 21:00 UTC
British Airways fined a record £121 after admitting collusion

British Airways has been hit with a record £121.5 million fine after it admitted to collusion over fuel surcharges on long-haul flights.
Wednesday, August 1st 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Chile's richest man leaves LAN and dreams of becoming president

Chilean billionaire and former presidential candidate Sebastian Piñera has resigned as director of airline LAN, less than a month after he was fined for buying shares in the company while in possession of privileged information.
Wednesday, August 1st 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Royal Navy patrol ship can't get enough of Merseyside

Returning for the second time in four months, HMS Mersey will once again fly the flag for the Royal Navy as she sails in to reinforce links with her affiliated borough of Sefton on Thursday (August 2)
Wednesday, August 1st 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Pulp mill dispute: New York uneventful, next meeting The Hague

Argentine and Uruguayan delegates will be meeting again in a month's time for a third round of negotiations to try to unlock the controversy over the construction of the Botnia pulp mill on the coast of the shared river Uruguay and which Argentina challenges on alleged legal and environmental grounds.