Politics

• Thursday, May 3rd 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Cuban forces foil attempt to hijack a civilian aircraft

  

  Fugitive Cuban army recruits killed a military officer they took hostage early Thursday in a failed attempt to hijack a plane bound for the United States according to a release from the Interior Ministry. Two of the escaped recruits were arrested after Army Lt. Col. Victor Ibo Acuña Velazquez was killed in the aborted hijacking.

• Wednesday, May 2nd 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Disaster management team in the Falkland Islands

  

  “To spread the word that preparedness does save lives” This was the reason given by Frank Savage, adviser on disaster management to the British Foreign and Commonwealth's Overseas Territories Department (FCO/OTD), why he and colleague, Roger Bellers of the Department for International Development (DFID) are in the Falkland Islands this week.

• Wednesday, May 2nd 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Falklands War “a mistake”. Bombing raid reversed withdrawal decision

  

  Argentina was ready to announce withdrawal of its troops from the Falklands Islands on May 2nd exactly 25 years ago but President Galtieri reversed his decision when the British Vulcan bomber and Harrier aircraft launched their raid on Stanley Airport the previous day.

• Wednesday, May 2nd 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Decisive Falklands War actions recalled. Vulcan bomber raid and Belgrano

  

  Two of the most dramatic actions of the 1982 Falklands War have been recalled in a series of media reports in the United Kingdom 25 years after they took place - the sinking of the Argentine cruiser Belgrano with heavy loss of life and the attack on Stanley airport by a British Vulcan bomber in the longest air raid flight in history.

• Wednesday, May 2nd 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Benedict XVI visits Brazil to strengthen regional predominance

  Pope Benedict XVI urged on Wednesday prayers of support for his trip to Brazil next week, his first pilgrimage to Latin America and an effort to strengthen a church battling to retain its predominant role in the region.

• Tuesday, May 1st 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Britain: Primer Minister to announce quit date next week

  

  Tony Blair will make a “definitive” statement next week on his plans to leave No 10 - as June 30 emerged as the likely date for the hand-over to his successor.

• Tuesday, May 1st 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  The history of May 1, International Workers' Day

  

  Every year, May 1 is celebrated around the world as a day of international working class solidarity. Demonstrations take place from Africa to Asia, across South and North America and in Europe. These events, organized by trade unions in some countries and by revolutionary parties or governments in others, all celebrate the struggle of the international working class.

• Tuesday, May 1st 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  High seas ceremony to remember sinking of “General Belgrano”

  

  The Argentine Navy is planning for this coming Friday a high seas homage to the 323 crewmembers lost when the sinking of the cruiser “General Belgrano” on May 2, 1982, by two torpedoes from the Royal Navy's nuclear submersible HMS Conqueror.

• Tuesday, May 1st 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Attacker of Rio Gallegos Kirchner's property diagnosed “psychosis”

  

  A new psychiatric report revealed that the Chilean born citizen that last week end tried to ram a heavy truck against a Rio Gallegos house belonging to Argentine President Nestor Kirchner is suffering from “psychosis”.

• Tuesday, May 1st 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Chavez threatens with leaving OAS if Venezuela is condemned

  

  Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez has threatened withdrawal from the Organization of American States, OAS, if Venezuela is condemned over the case of the private television station, Radio Caracas Television, RCTV.