Politics

• 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.

• Sunday, June 10th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Navy could still liberate Falklands

  

  The Royal Navy could still today launch a similar expedition to liberate the Falkland Islands if invaded as it did in 1982. That is the view of Admiral of the Fleet, Sir Alan West, retired head of the Royal Navy and Commander of a frigate, HMS Ardent, bombed and sunk in the 1982 War on the day British forces landed at San Carlos.

• Saturday, June 9th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Brazilian Senate could block Venezuela's Mercosur membership

  Despite recent conciliatory gestures between the presidents of Brazil and Venezuela, Brazil's Senate has shown a new determination to block full membership for Venezuela in Mercosur as part of the fallout from the revocation of Radio Caracas TV's license.