Politics

• 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.

• Sunday, June 3rd 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Winter, Sweden and soccer in the race for Buenos Aires City

  

  Buenos Aires City Conservative candidate Mauricio Macri on Sunday night was almost doubling the votes of his runner up but still short of the 50% plus one needed, and will therefore have to face a run off nest June 24 in the election for mayor of Argentina's capital.

• Saturday, June 2nd 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Chile returns to the Andean fold but as an “associate” member

  

  Bolivia's Foreign Affairs Minister David Choquehuanca announced Friday in La Paz that Chile had formalized its intention of returning to the Community of Andean Nations, CAN, which she abandoned 31 years ago.

• Saturday, June 2nd 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Keep pledges, urge G8 campaigners

  Thousands of peaceful British campaigners urged G8 leaders to keep their promises on tackling poverty as violence erupted at an anti-summit rally in Germany. The demonstration in London took place as protesters clashed with riot police in the northern German town of Rostock.