Politics

• Tuesday, June 5th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Spain orders arrests of US vessels involved in treasure salvaging

  Spanish court has ordered the interception of two United Sates vessels should they leave Gibraltar, amid a row over treasure from a shipwreck. A judge in Cadiz instructed police to capture the ships if they entered Spanish waters, Spanish media said.

• Tuesday, June 5th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  OAS unanimous support for Argentina's Falklands' claim

  

  As has been the rule the 37th Organization of American States Foreign Secretaries summit unanimously approved a declaration in support of Argentina's claim to the Malvinas/Falklands islands while Argentina pounded Britain for its unilateral actions ignoring cooperation understandings.

• Monday, June 4th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Uruguay's Vazquez ends speculation over seeking re-election

  Uruguayan president Tabaré Vazquez put an end on Monday to months' long speculations about his possible re-election stating during a public ceremony that he would not be a candidate in the next election.

• Monday, June 4th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Brazil, India lobby for permanent seats in Security Council

  Brazil that aspires to a permanent seat of the expanded UN Security Council along with India, strongly advocated the need for inclusion of “great nations of the South” in the global decision making bodies to create a “more representative” international order.

• Monday, June 4th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Washington/Caracas clash over democracy and free press

  United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Venezuela's Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro fired verbal attacks at each other on Monday in Panama over the closure of a key opposition television station in Venezuela that has prompted mass protests.

• Monday, June 4th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Thatcher Attends Gosport Commemoration

  

  Gosport on the western side of Portsmouth harbour has again led other British towns with the first public commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the 1982 war.

• Monday, June 4th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Brazil's Lula da Silva proposes forest preservation plan

  President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Monday that rich nations should pay poorer countries to preserve their forests because the rich are responsible for most of the world's greenhouse gas emissions

• Monday, June 4th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Kirchner joins the Buenos Aires run off with heavy ammo

  Less than 24 hours after the Buenos Aires City elections results were made official, Argentine president Nestor Kirchner jumped into the run off dispute scheduled for next June 24 between the Conservative winner of the first round Maruicio Macri (46%), and his protégé and Education Minister Daniel Filmus (24%).

• Sunday, June 3rd 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Buenos Aires Sunday vote signals start of electoral calendar

  

  Today Argentina's capital will be voting for a new mayor (governor) and given the political significance of Buenos Aires City June 3 will be signaling the beginning of five long months of electoral battling culminating October 28 with the election, most probably, of another Kirchner (Mr. or Mrs.)

• Sunday, June 3rd 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Insulza undercores values of inclusive democracy in Latam

  The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, defended Sunday the concept of democracy enshrined in the Inter-American Democratic Charter, which includes citizen participation, separation of powers, respect for human rights and respect for freedom of expression and of the press among the basic values of an inclusive democracy.