Politics

• Tuesday, November 4th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  Colombia faces grave human rights challenges claims UN

  Colombia faces grave human rights challenges in its ongoing conflict, including hostage-taking, extrajudicial executions and arbitrary arrest and detention, despite measures taken by the Government to protect vulnerable groups, the United Nations rights chief says after visiting the Andean country.

• Tuesday, November 4th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  Spanish civil war descendents can apply for citizenship

  

  Descendants of people who fled Spain during the country's civil war are to be allowed to apply for citizenship. The decision will allow an estimated 500,000 children and grandchildren of civil war-era exiles to seek to return.

• Tuesday, November 4th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  Count down for the man who heralds a new era for the US

  Millions of Americans will bring in a new era of United States' politics as they cast their votes in the most expensive presidential election in history.

• Tuesday, November 4th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  Falklands and Malvinas veterans meet at Gosport

  

  The Mayor of Gosport Councillor Derek Kimber recently received three special visitors to the Parlour, three gentlemen who might, a few years ago, have come very close to crossing paths with the Mayor, but in very different circumstances.

• Monday, November 3rd 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  Castro's first overseas visit to Brazil, says Lula da Silva

  

  Brazilian President Lula da Silva said that the first overseas visit of his Cuban counterpart Raul Castro since taking office will be to Brazil. The announcement was made during his brief visit to Havana where Brazil's Petrobras signed an agreement to explore and exploit oil and gas offshore Cuba.

• Monday, November 3rd 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  Chavez velvet warning to Nobel Peace Lech Walesa

  

  Venezuelan opponents on Sunday accused President Hugo Chavez of trying to silence his critics after associates of former Polish president Lech Walesa said the Nobel Peace Prize laureate would not attend a pro-democracy forum in Venezuela.

• Monday, November 3rd 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  UN convoy of food and medicine for displaced Congolese

  

  United Nations is to send a convoy of food and medical supplies to help the 250,000 people displaced by recent fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It will be the first aid in a week for those stranded in areas controlled by renegade Gen Laurent Nkunda's forces.

• Monday, November 3rd 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  US's election, only comparable to recent results in Latam

  Brazilian leader Lula da Silva said that if Barack Obama if finally elected as the next president of the United States, it would be “something extraordinary”, comparable to his won victory or that of Bolivia's Evo Morales, the first indigenous president, plus a “spark of joy” for the expectant world.

• Monday, November 3rd 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  Obama, McCain battle across campaign's closing day

  

  Aiming for a last-minute upset, Republican John McCain embarked on a grueling odyssey through seven swing states Monday while Democrat Barack Obama was headed toward three longtime GOP bastions that have become Democratic-leaning battlegrounds in the historic presidential contest.

• Sunday, November 2nd 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  Chavez: Biz related to scandal may be expropriated

  

  President Hugo Chavez on Saturday threatened to expropriate a major Venezuelan company because of its owners' ties to a scandal involving the seizure of a suitcase stuffed with $800,000 in cash.