Politics

• Wednesday, November 14th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Brazilian Indians urge Ban to help protect the Amazon basin

  

  Brazilian Indians and officials urged U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, who this week visited the Amazon basin, to rally international support to protect the world's largest rain forest.

• Tuesday, November 13th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Saudi prince buys the first VIP A380 Flying Palace

  

  Airbus revealed the name of the first individual to purchase the A380 super-jumbo, the world's largest passenger plane. Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal is the mystery buyer of the VIP A380 version also called the Flying Palace.

• Monday, November 12th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  NZ - Uruguay relations expanding in new directions

  Regular New Zealand-Uruguay bilateral foreign policy talks and doubling the number of working holiday visas granted each year between the two countries have been announced by Prime Minister Helen Clark and Uruguay President Dr Tabare Vazquez today.

• Monday, November 12th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  UN's Ban Meet With Lula In Brazil On Climate Change

  U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva met on Monday to discuss Brazil's leading role in tackling climate change.

• Monday, November 12th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Uruguay to keep border with Argentina shut for now

  

  Uruguayan Foreign Minister Reynaldo Gargano yesterday ratified the country's decision to set up a border guard watch over the bridge joining the Argentine city of Gualeguaychú and the Uruguayan town of Fray Bentos.

• Monday, November 12th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  UK Veterans minister heads Remembrance Day in Falklands

  

  Britain's Veterans Minister Derek Twigg MP joined 250 veterans of the South Atlantic conflict of 25 years ago in the Remembrance Day service held in Stanley Cathedral in the Falkland Islands on Sunday 11 November.

• Sunday, November 11th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Falklands veterans 'lay ghosts to rest' on Tumbledown Mt.

  

  A night spent on a cold and rainy mountain this week has 'laid ghosts to rest' say former British Servicemen who have been haunted by the deaths of their friends and colleagues in the battle for the Falkland Islands twenty five years ago.

• Sunday, November 11th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Argentines protest against a Uruguayan pulp mill

  An estimated 20,000 Argentines marched to Argentina's river border with Uruguay on Saturday, some arriving by boat, to protest the opening of a paper plant in the neighboring Uruguay on fear its operations will endanger the environment and contaminate agricultural lands in their country.

• Sunday, November 11th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  “People Summit” Concludes in Santiago de Chile

  

  Chile's Summit for Friendship and Integration of the Latin-American People, popularly known as the People's Summit, culminated Saturday with an event that brought together Bolivian President Evo Morales, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, and Cuban Vice President Carlos Lage. Speaking to a crowd of roughly 3,000 spectators, the four leaders emphasized unity among Latin American nations–particularly against the hegemony of U.S. capitalism—as the key to constructing the region's future.

• Saturday, November 10th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Botnia start up has Uruguay/Argentina relations on the cliff

  

  Uruguayan president Tabare Vazquez blamed Argentina's reluctance to end the pickets blocking access to bridges linking with Uruguay as the main reason for the collapse of dialogue and his decision to give the start up authorization for the Botnia pulp mill built along a river shared by the neighboring countries and which Argentina openly objects.