Politics

• Sunday, May 11th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentine farmers plan more protests; governors' support

  Tired of waiting for signals from President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's administration, Argentine farmers' leaders are ready to extend the current lock out which expires next Thursday, according to warning speeches over the weekend.

• Saturday, May 10th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  “Foreign Press Association of New York celebrates 90 years”

  The Foreign Press Association of New York, the oldest media organization in the United States, is celebrating its 90th Anniversary this year with Carl Bernstein as the keynote speaker at a gala dinner to be held on May 13 at the Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan.

• Saturday, May 10th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentine farmers lobbying governors to join struggle

  

  Argentine striking farmers completed the second day of their renewed protest with an open meeting in one of the country's northern provinces warning that the country is beginning to feel recession symptoms because of the stoppage, while from Buenos Aires the Kirchners administration continued with their verbal attack calling them greedy and irresponsible.

• Saturday, May 10th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Madrid “certain” Odyssey treasure is Spanish

  Spanish experts who analysed samples of the controversial treasure raised by Odyssey Marine Exploration last summer have concluded that it came from a Spanish galleon. At a press conference in the Ministry of Culture in Madrid yesterday, Spain's US lawyer, James Goold, said Spain was “absolutely certain” that the treasure came from the 19th century warship Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes.

• Friday, May 9th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Brazil's warning message about Bolivian separatism

  Brazil's Foreign Affairs minister Celso Amorim said that South America would never accept “separatism in Bolivia” and underlined that any autonomy must be negotiated with La Paz, reports O'Globo.

• Friday, May 9th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Paraguayan elected president after Congressional accord

  Paraguayan president elect Fernando Lugo who takes office next August 15 will have to reach a working agreement in Congress since the coalition that supported him was unable to obtain a majority.

• Friday, May 9th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Hawks & hooligans, the Kirchners' anti inflation plan

  Hardliners have taken over the Argentine administration of President Mrs. Kirchner determined to a complete victory over the farmers in the current conflict, while pickets of hooligans have taken to the streets to intimidate businesses to moderate prices thus helping to combat the country's spiraling inflation.

• Friday, May 9th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Falkland Islands: Weekly Penguin News update

  Headlines: Ship burns for days; Get behind the Big Salute; Volcanic ash over Islands; Man guilty of sex with child.

• Friday, May 9th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Bolivian president accepts challenge of recall referendum

  Bolivian President Evo Morales agreed to a nationwide recall referendum, gambling that Bolivians will re-elect him after just two years in office and confirm support for his plan of reforms which has been condemned by some of the country's richest provinces.

• Thursday, May 8th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentine farmers' conflict resumes in uncharted terrain

  

  Frustrated Argentine farmers returned on Wednesday to protest pickets in the country's highways following 21 days of conflict and 36 of truce during which no sound agreements were reached with the reluctant and stubborn President Kirchner administration.