Politics

Monday, October 1st 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Bush and Chavez in the same bag: worst regional image

United States president George Bush and Venezuela's Hugo Chavez are the regional leaders with the worst image, according to a public opinion poll published this week end in the influential Brazilian daily O Estado de Sao Paulo.
Monday, October 1st 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Brazil's Congress has Venezuela's Mercosur incorporation on hold

The Brazilian Executive is hopeful and “confident” Venezuela will finally become a full member of Mercosur because it's a decision that favors “Brazil, South American integration and Venezuela”.
Sunday, September 30th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Uruguay/Argentina pulp mills dispute: waiting for Oct 28

Uruguayan and Argentine delegates on Saturday held a new round of talks in New York sponsored by the Spanish Crown in an effort to find a way out to the dispute over the construction of pulp mills along the river Uruguay jointly managed by the neighboring countries.
Saturday, September 29th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Argentina: Coppola robbed of 15 years of computer work

Francis Ford Coppola, five-time Oscar-winning director of The Godfather trilogy and other films, knows how that feels. Yesterday he lamented the fact that he had lost computer data including his writings and family photographs going back 15 years in a robbery on his Argentine studios.
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.