Politics

• Saturday, June 2nd 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Buenos Aires: Candidates compete for the last word

  

  Brutal government intervention,“ is what mayoral candidate Jorge Telerman blamed for the fact that his rival Daniel Filmus had managed to climb a few percentage points in the polls for Sunday's City elections. He made his remarks as the curtain fell on the 2007 mayoral campaign — after 8am yesterday morning all campaigning was banned.

• Friday, June 1st 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  France demands from US reciprocity in farm subsidies cuts

  France's agriculture minister said Thursday Europe's farming sector is a “strategic” industry that has already been significantly overhauled and called for no further unilateral concessions in the global free trade negotiations.

• Friday, June 1st 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Falkland Islands: Penguin News Update

  

  Headlines:
  Paras return to Goose Green; Chief Executive reveals resignation plans; New governmental heads; Brothers in Arms dedicated to SAMA; Falklands lobby UN

• Friday, June 1st 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Baroness Thatcher visits Pobjoy Mint

  

  On Thursday 31st May 2007, Baroness Thatcher LG OM PC FRS visited Pobjoy Mint in Kingswood, Surrey to launch the first coin in the series produced to mark the 25th Anniversary of the Liberation of the Falkland Islands

• Friday, June 1st 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Diplomatic incident brewing between Brazil and Venezuela

  Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva instructed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to summon Venezuela's ambassador Julio Garcia Montoya “for the indispensable clarification” of President Hugo Chavez' reference to the Brazilian Senate as “a parrot that repeats whatever Washington says” adding that the Brazilian Congress was “controlled by the right wing”.

• Thursday, May 31st 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Farewell to the new patrol HMS Clyde

  

  MORE than 800 people toured the Royal Navy ship HMS Clyde as it prepared to leave Scotland for the Falklands.

• Wednesday, May 30th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Opposition Committed to “UN defined Decolonisation”

  

  GSLP/Liberal Opposition will press on for a United Nations defined decolonisation of Gibraltar. That was the message reiterated yesterday by Opposition Leader Joe Bossano on his return from the UN seminar in Grenada.

• Wednesday, May 30th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  False passport of Nazi Eichmann found in Buenos Aires court

  

  The false passport used by high-ranking Nazi Adolf Eichmann in 1950 to escape to Argentina was accidentally discovered in an old court record in Buenos Aires.

• Wednesday, May 30th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Mercosur, “an illusion of integration”; Brazil no longer leads

  

  Latinamerica has never been so divided, Mercosur is but an illusion of integration and Brazil has lost its leadership and convergence capacity according to former Brazilian president Fernando Henrique Cardoso who ruled from 1995 to 2000.

• Wednesday, May 30th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Pulp mills dispute: open dialogue but polite disagreement

  

  The second day of Argentine/Uruguayan talks to try to unlock the dispute over the construction of a pulp mill in Uruguay ended as it begun, with each side asserting its position and the commitment to a next meeting in the framework of an “open dialogue” atmosphere.