Politics

• Monday, June 1st 2009 - 08:39 UTC

  New El Salvador government expected to restore relations with Cuba

  

  El Salvador President-elect Mauricio Funes plans to restore diplomatic relations with Cuba after taking office on Monday, a lawmaker allied tipped to become the Foreign Affairs minister of the new administration.

• Monday, June 1st 2009 - 08:17 UTC

  Blackouts in Cuba if companies don’t comply with restrictions

  

  The Cuban government has threatened with cutting power to companies and entities that do not comply with the “exceptional measures” which become effective Monday to save fuel and help the rapidly deteriorating island’s economy, aggravated by the current global financial crisis.

• Monday, June 1st 2009 - 07:50 UTC

  Cuba/US step closer agree to resume migration talks

  

  Cuba has agreed to resume talks with the United States over migration and mail service between the two countries, two senior US State Department officials said on Sunday.

• Sunday, May 31st 2009 - 16:26 UTC

  PM Gordon Brown to launch MP code of conduct

  

  Gordon Brown says there are “clear cases” of MPs who may have broken the law over expense claims but insisted that only “a few” MPs had abused the Westminster perks system.

• Sunday, May 31st 2009 - 15:57 UTC

  Falklands: Argentine war veteran publishes little known stories

  

  WITH one or two significant exceptions, like the notorious Major Patricio Dowling, our invaders in 1982 were largely anonymous to the citizens of
  Stanley, particularly the ordinary soldiers in their helmets and flapping rubber ponchos.

• Saturday, May 30th 2009 - 15:43 UTC

  UK reaffirms Falklands’ sovereignty on postage stamps issue

  

  Britain stands by its decision to issue postage stamps from the disputed territories of and around the Falkland Islands, according to a letter to the UN secretary-general made public at the United Nations Headquarters in New York this week.

• Saturday, May 30th 2009 - 15:16 UTC

  OAS can’t agree on Cuba, while Havana ridicules the organization

  

  The task force created by the Organization of American States, OAS, in an attempt to bridge different members’ proposals to consider the readmission of Cuba seems to have stalled with the main actors clearly underlining their stance.

• Saturday, May 30th 2009 - 15:13 UTC

  Chavez avoids debate with Vargas Llosa; will only act as moderator

  

  Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa refused to go to debate on Hugo Chávez' TV program “Hello President” (“Aló Presidente”) because the outspoken Venezuelan President said he was only going to be the “moderator”.

• Friday, May 29th 2009 - 11:29 UTC

  Falkland Islands: Weekly Penguin News Update

  

  Headlines: Padgett reveals Budget, Deficit announced in line with amended Medium Term Financial Plan; Next of kin to fly in for inauguration;13 year-old supports local team; May Ball colour supplement.

• Friday, May 29th 2009 - 11:24 UTC

  ILO predicts 230 million jobless in 2009; Latam unemployment, 9%

  

  The International Labour Organization (ILO) is predicting global unemployment between 210 million and 239 million people in 2009 which represents a rate of 6.5% to 7.4%. Geneva based ILO made public Thursday its report on “Tackling The Global Jobs Crisis” in advance of the ILO annual conference, which begins June 3.