Politics

• Friday, June 29th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Falkland Islands: Weekly Penguin News update

  

  Headlines:
  Our men in New York; Forty years of loyalty to the Falklands; New bullying claims rock police force; Liberation 'indiscretion'; Health survey results comino.

• Friday, June 29th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Sovereignty dispute “excludes” Falklands from C24 self determination

  

  The much disputed clause which would have the United Nations General Assembly exclude Gibraltar and the Falkland Islands from the full exercise of self-determination because they are caught in a “sovereignty dispute” was adopted by the UN Committee of 24 this week and passed to the UN fourth committee, reports the Gibraltar Chronicle.

• Friday, June 29th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Mercosur summit calls for unity and not much more

  

  Mercosur presidential summit in Paraguay approved Friday steps to speed cross-border shipments of meat and vegetables on Friday, but postponed action on other key issues amid calls for greater unity.

• Thursday, June 28th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Rato to step down as IMF chief

  

  International Monetary Fund managing director Rodrigo de Rato will step down in October, he said Thursday, some six weeks after upheaval at the helm of the sister institution, the World Bank.

• Thursday, June 28th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Brown unveils huge Cabinet revamp

  

  Prime Minister Gordon Brown's new Cabinet has met for the first time in 10 Downing Street.

• Thursday, June 28th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Brazilian Congress expects apology from President Chavez

  

  Venezuela may need to apologize to Brazil's Congress if it wants to join Mercosur cautioned Brazil's Foreign Affairs minister Celso Amorim in an interview published Thursday in the capital Brasilia.

• Thursday, June 28th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Mercosur summit amidst criticisms from junior members

  

  Mercosur Foreign Affairs and Finance ministers met Thursday in Paraguay ahead of the presidential summit scheduled for Friday when the trade block's six months rotating presidency will pass from Paraguay to Uruguay.

• Wednesday, June 27th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Looking back with the advantage of hindsight

  

  Twenty five years alter the end of the Falklands War Argentine Air Force Comodoro Pablo Carballo still defines himself as a combatant, as opposed to being “a former or ex combatant” of the 1982 war. “Ex-combatant would mean that I no longer fight on” he explains.

• Wednesday, June 27th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Brown replaces Blair as British Prime Minister

  

  Tony Blair has handed over power to Gordon Brown, his finance minister, after more than 10 years as Britain's prime minister.
  He formally handed his resignation to Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace on Wednesday

• Wednesday, June 27th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Falklands/Argentina: entrenched positions and no realistic change

  

  Relations between the Falkland Islands and Argentina with positions so firmly entrenched, “realistically are not going to change”, but Gibraltar and Northern Ireland show us that very intractable situations can make progress, when there's good will on both sides and willingness to put the sovereignty issue aside.