Politics

• Monday, June 4th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Uruguay's Vazquez ends speculation over seeking re-election

  Uruguayan president Tabaré Vazquez put an end on Monday to months' long speculations about his possible re-election stating during a public ceremony that he would not be a candidate in the next election.

• Monday, June 4th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Brazil, India lobby for permanent seats in Security Council

  Brazil that aspires to a permanent seat of the expanded UN Security Council along with India, strongly advocated the need for inclusion of “great nations of the South” in the global decision making bodies to create a “more representative” international order.

• Monday, June 4th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Washington/Caracas clash over democracy and free press

  United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Venezuela's Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro fired verbal attacks at each other on Monday in Panama over the closure of a key opposition television station in Venezuela that has prompted mass protests.

• Monday, June 4th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Thatcher Attends Gosport Commemoration

  

  Gosport on the western side of Portsmouth harbour has again led other British towns with the first public commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the 1982 war.

• Monday, June 4th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Brazil's Lula da Silva proposes forest preservation plan

  President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Monday that rich nations should pay poorer countries to preserve their forests because the rich are responsible for most of the world's greenhouse gas emissions

• Monday, June 4th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Kirchner joins the Buenos Aires run off with heavy ammo

  Less than 24 hours after the Buenos Aires City elections results were made official, Argentine president Nestor Kirchner jumped into the run off dispute scheduled for next June 24 between the Conservative winner of the first round Maruicio Macri (46%), and his protégé and Education Minister Daniel Filmus (24%).

• Sunday, June 3rd 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Buenos Aires Sunday vote signals start of electoral calendar

  

  Today Argentina's capital will be voting for a new mayor (governor) and given the political significance of Buenos Aires City June 3 will be signaling the beginning of five long months of electoral battling culminating October 28 with the election, most probably, of another Kirchner (Mr. or Mrs.)

• Sunday, June 3rd 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Insulza undercores values of inclusive democracy in Latam

  The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, defended Sunday the concept of democracy enshrined in the Inter-American Democratic Charter, which includes citizen participation, separation of powers, respect for human rights and respect for freedom of expression and of the press among the basic values of an inclusive democracy.

• Sunday, June 3rd 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Battle to limit trade of sharks and cedar trees in The Hague

  Battle for conservation of sharks and cedar trees begins in The Hague
  The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species is expected to call for new limitations on commercial fisheries and timber, particularly certain species of sharks and cedar trees which are extensively used for furniture and humidors.

• Sunday, June 3rd 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Chavez threatens to end more private media broadcast licenses

  President Hugo Chavez threatened to terminate the broadcast licences of private media outlets seen as sowing unrest in Venezuela, just days after the nation's oldest private TV station was forced off the air when the Venezuelan government refused to renew its broadcast license.