Politics

• Wednesday, May 28th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  UK nuclear sub strikes underwater pinnacle in Red Sea

  The United Kingdom Ministry of Defence has confirmed that the Royal Navy submarine HMS Superb struck an underwater pinnacle whilst on dived passage through the northern Red Sea on Monday 26 May 2008.

• Wednesday, May 28th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Mercosur leaders summit July first in Tucuman

  

  Argentina will be hosting the XXXV Mercosur summit at the end of June when the six months rotating chair or pro-tempore presidency will be passed on to Brazil.

• Tuesday, May 27th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentine farmers call for patience after negotiations canceled

  

  Argentine farm leaders warned the government against ending negotiations to resolve a dispute over export taxes and will meet today as pressure builds in the countryside to halt grain and oilseeds exports for a third time since March.

• Tuesday, May 27th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Mrs. Kirchner's unsolved problems according to NYT

  

  The New York Times forecasts bad times ahead for President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner in spite of booming times for the Argentine economy. “Mrs. Kirchner is struggling to break free of the curse of Argentine leaders past: the failure to govern successfully in the good times”, writes Alexei Barrionuevo from Buenos Aires.

• Tuesday, May 27th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  HMS Marlborough takes on the colors of the Chilean Navy

  This Wednesday the former Royal Navy HMS Marlborough will officially fly the colors of the Chilean Navy under the name of FF06 “Almirante Condell”.

• Tuesday, May 27th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentina confirms continental shelf presentation May 09

  

  Argentina announced that in May 2009 it will be making the official presentation of the outer boundaries of its continental shelf, (including the Falkland Islands) before the United Nations Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf in the framework of the Law of the Sea.

• Tuesday, May 27th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Canada prepares for the rush on Arctic claim and resources

  Canada is preparing to claim an area of the Arctic Ocean seabed equivalent in size to almost two million square kilometres as part of Ottawa's aggressive effort to defend the country's interests in the North, said Canadian Natural Resources Minister Gary Lunn.

• Tuesday, May 27th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  World polluters need to understand “Amazon is Brazil”

  Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva reacted against international criticism of his administration's environment policies saying that the world needed to understand that the Amazon belongs to Brazilians.

• Tuesday, May 27th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Peru, Singapore and Canada set to sign free trade agreement

  

  Peru, one of the fastest growing economies in the world, will sign free-trade deals with Canada and Singapore next Thursday announced President Alan Garcia. Peru recently signed a landmark free trade agreement with United States.

• Monday, May 26th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Canada launches claim over disputed sea-bed Arctic ridge

  A year after Russia's controversial flag-planting dive to the North Pole seabed to assert ownership of a sprawling underwater mountain chain, Canada is launching a less brazen but potentially more effective counterclaim for control over parts of the disputed Arctic ridge - perhaps even the pole itself - by publishing a scientific paper in a scholarly journal.