Politics

• Tuesday, June 12th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Kirchner insists with mud slinging in Bs As mayor campaign

  

  Buenos Aires City mayor run off candidates will not be debating ahead of Sunday June 24th vote. Conservative candidate Mauricio Macri who defeated President Nestor Kirchner's man, Daniel Filmus by 22 points in the first round said the campaign had turned “too aggressive and dirty”.

• Tuesday, June 12th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentine conscripts re-live Falklands' nightmare

  

  25 years ago today on the Falkland Islands, the first mountain under Argentine occupation was captured by advancing British troops and 3 days later the War ended.

• Tuesday, June 12th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Global military spending increase 37% in 10 years

  

  Global military spending rose 3.5% last year to $1.2 trillion (610 billion pounds) as U.S. costs for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan mounted, a European research body said on Monday in an annual study.

• Tuesday, June 12th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  New UN Argentine ambassador takes office in New York

  

  Recently named, Argentine former legislator Jorge Arguello officially became this Tuesday in New York the new ambassador before United Nations. Arguello succeeds Ambassador Cesar Mayoral.

• Tuesday, June 12th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentine protestors to block dredging of the River Uruguay

  

  The pulp mills dispute between Argentina and Uruguay has scaled another step following environmentalists' decision to block all dredging along the river Uruguay which is the vital access waterway for the Botnia plant.

• Monday, June 11th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Suffering and Suicides of Falklands Veterans

  

  As the United Kingdom commemorates the 25th anniversary of the Falklands War this week, it is claimed that more members of the armed forces have committed suicide as a result of their experiences than died in the fighting itself.

• Monday, June 11th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Falklands' VC widow's pride

  The widow of the paratroop commander, Lieutenant Colonel H. Jones, killed in the battle for Goose Green in 1982, has called for this week's 25th anniversary Falklands War commemorations in Britain to concentrate on pride in victory rather than the personal grief of the families of the dead.

• Sunday, June 10th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Last survivor of German battelship Graf Spee dies in Montevideo

  

  Gustav Friedrich Adolph Quick, 89, the last surviving crew member of the German pocket battleship Graf Spee that was scuttled in the River Plate at the beginning of World War II, has passed away and was buried Saturday in Montevideo.

• Sunday, June 10th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentina blasts UK's reluctance to negotiate Falklands' sovereignty

  

  Twenty five years after the end of the Falkland Islands war, Argentine ratified this weekend its unflinching determination over the Islands sovereignty and described as “incomprehensible” the British attitude for having consistently denied resuming direct negotiations as has been established by United Nations since 1982.

• Sunday, June 10th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Peru develops copper industry hoping to match Chile's production

  Peruvian president Alan García said that new promising copper mining projects could in a near future put Peru next to Chile as the world's leading exporters of the metal. Currently Chile is number one with an annual production of 5.37 million tons and Peru figures third with just over a million tons.