Politics

Friday, November 2nd 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Bachelet sees poverty as the main threat to regional democracy

Chile's Michelle Bachelet who will be hosting the Ibero-American summit next week defended the legitimacy of Latinamerican governments, particularly Venezuela, and insisted that the prevailing consensus among leaders is that poverty represents the main threat for the region.
Thursday, November 1st 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Malvinas issue in UN Ban Ki-moon's Buenos Aires agenda

“Strengthening multilateralism” and the Malvinas issue figure in the agenda United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will be considering with Argentine officials when he visits Buenos Aires next week.
Thursday, November 1st 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Dominique Strauss-Kahn takes IMF helm in reform storm

Frenchman Dominique Strauss-Kahn takes the helm of the International Monetary Fund on Thursday on a critical mission: to restore the aging institution's relevance and finances.
Thursday, November 1st 2007 - 20:00 UTC
London's police guilty over shooting of Brazilian Menezes

The Metropolitan Police has been found guilty of breaching health and safety laws over the shooting of innocent Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes.
Thursday, November 1st 2007 - 20:00 UTC
U.S. pilot who dropped Hiroshima bomb dies

Paul Tibbets, the pilot of the U.S. bomber that dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan on August 6, 1945, died on Thursday at age 92, a newspaper reported.
Thursday, November 1st 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Falklands' veterans at Liberation Monument SAMA dedication

The Falkland Islands will hold on Saturday evening 10 November 2007 a special remembrance service at the Liberation Monument in Stanley, in honour of the Liberation of the Islands 25 years ago, while reflecting on the struggle and sacrifice that made the achievement of those remarkable combined services possible.
Thursday, November 1st 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Uruguay's Botnia plant opening delayed on Spain's request

At the request of Spain Uruguay at last moment postponed the effective start-up of a 1.2 billion US dollars Finnish built pulp mill which has been at the heart of an acrimonious two-year controversy with neighboring Argentina.
Wednesday, October 31st 2007 - 20:00 UTC
British contribution to Punta Arenas in Historic Archive

As a way to preserve memories of British contribution to the development of the Magallanes Region in the extreme south of Chile, the British School in Punta Arenas inaugurated a British Historic Archive containing all the documents compiled by the Anglican Society of Punta Arenas.
Wednesday, October 31st 2007 - 20:00 UTC
25th Anniversary Veterans Pilgrimage to Falklands

The coming week SAMA (South Atlantic Medal Association) 82 and Combat Stress 25th Anniversary Pilgrimage will be flying to the Falkland Islands with around 250 veterans and next of kin or family members of some of those lost in the 1982 South Atlantic conflict.
Wednesday, October 31st 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Populist general joins Paraguay's presidential election

Populist former Paraguayan Army General Lino Oviedo was cleared on Tuesday by the country's Supreme Court of a mutiny conviction clearing the way for him to compete in April's presidential election.