Politics

• Monday, October 27th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  Gibraltar celebrates the UN decision on self-determination

  The Gibraltar Government has welcomed the formal rejection by the United Nations Fourth Committee of the view promulgated by the Committee of 24 that territories affected by a sovereignty dispute are excluded from the principle of self-determination.

• Sunday, October 26th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  IMF director gets to keep job despite affair

  

  IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been cleared of harassment, favoritism and abuse of power after an affair with a colleague.

• Sunday, October 26th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  Majestic blue icebergs from an airborne Falklands/S. Georgia

  

  Sharon Jaffray, Acting Editor of the Falkland Islands weekly Penguin News was invited last week for a trip to South Georgia with the RAF regular duty flight. A Hercules “Fat Albert” took off from Mount Pleasant 7:00 in the morning of a spectacular sunny day into what turned out be a unique experience to take photos as they low flied over South Georgia.

• Sunday, October 26th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  Farc hostage Lizcano escapes with guard after 8 years

  

  A Colombian congressman held hostage by Marxist guerrillas for eight years escaped through the jungle with one of his captors in another blow to Latin America's oldest insurgency.

• Sunday, October 26th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  Israel's Livni scraps coalition effort, wants early elections

  

  Unable to form a new coalition government, Kadima Party leader Tzipi Livni said Sunday she has asked Israeli President Shimon Peres to hold early general elections.

• Sunday, October 26th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  Serious setback for President Lula in Sao Paulo mayor race

  

  Brazil's ruling party and President Lula da Silva suffered a serious blow Sunday in the country's main city Sao Paulo where incumbent conservative mayor Gilberto Kassab comfortably won a second period defeating Marta Suplicy in the run off by almost twenty points.

• Sunday, October 26th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  UK/Arg chamber praises departing Ambassador Hughes

  

  British Ambassador in Argentina John Hughes, who ends a four-year mission here this month, was given the warmest of farewells by the British-Argentine Chamber of Commerce (CCAB) earlier this week in the stately surroundings of the ex-mansion wing of a Buenos Aires downtown hotel.

• Saturday, October 25th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  Miami federal jury begins deliberations of suitcase scandal

  

  A United States federal jury in Miami began deliberations Friday in the trial of a wealthy Venezuelan businessman accused in a conspiracy to hide the source and destination of a suitcase stuffed with 800,000 USD in cash and involving Venezuela and Argentina.

• Saturday, October 25th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  Vazquez re-election re-emerges strongly in Uruguay

  

  Uruguayan president Tabare Vazquez is reconsidering the proposal for his re-election next year if the ruling coalition, Broad Front, can't agree on a 2009 consensus presidential ticket during the coming movement's congress.

• Friday, October 24th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  Argentina furious with Uruguay's veto to Mr. Kirchner

  

  Argentina described as “injurious” Uruguay's decision not to support former Argentine president Nestor Kirchner candidacy to the chair of the Union of South American Nations, Unasur, in spite of the fact he was virtually the only hopeful.