Politics

• Tuesday, June 26th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  HMS Ocean double drugs catch in the Caribbean

  

  Plymouth-based helicopter carrier HMS Ocean, the Royal Navy's largest warship, has made another seizure of nearly half a ton of cocaine during its current maritime security patrol in the Atlantic and Caribbean.

• Monday, June 25th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Mercosur Paraguay summit centers on Chavez' attitudes

  

  A pilot experience between Argentina and Brazil regarding trade in local currency, reduction of asymmetries between senior and junior members and the official creation of the Bank of the South figure in the agenda for this week's Mercosur summit in Paraguay.

• Monday, June 25th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  World Bank Executive Directors confirm Zoellick president

  

  The World Bank executive directors met on Monday and approved Robert Zoellick to succeed Paul Wolfowitz as the next president of the 185-country development multilateral organization.

• Sunday, June 24th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Brown finally crowned Labour leader

  

  Gordon Brown is finally to be crowned Labour leader - taking over from Tony Blair after a 13-year wait.

• Sunday, June 24th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Brazil “undisturbed” with Chavez' absence from Mercosur summit

  

  Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez' likely failure to attend the upcoming Mercosur presidential summit in Paraguay is not a politically transcendental issue, but a simple problem of agenda, said Marco Aurelio Garc&iacutea, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's foreign affairs aide.

• Sunday, June 24th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Lula da Silva rejects appeal from Blair to “save” Doha round

  

  British Prime Minister Tony Blair told President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in a telephone call that he is counting on Brazil's help to &quotsave&quot the Doha round of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) talks.

• Sunday, June 24th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Double setback for President Kirchner electoral machine

  

  Double setback for Argentine president Nestor Kirchner: in Buenos Aires City his hand picked mayor candidate was defeated by a landslide in the run off and in the extreme south province of Tierra del Fuego a woman belonging to the most fierce opposition group in Congress was elected governor.

• Saturday, June 23rd 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  EU leaders reach agreement on new treaty

  

  Leaders of the European Union say they have reached an agreement on crafting a new EU treaty.

• Saturday, June 23rd 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Buenos Aires set for mayoral poll

  

  Buenos Aires goes to the polls Sunday to elect its mayor in a runoff election, which the Argentine right- wing appears set to win and which could take wind out of the sails of the government ahead of the October 28 presidential election.

• Saturday, June 23rd 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  CIA to release 1970s documents on agency's crimes

  

  The US Central Intelligence Agency is preparing to release a set of documents compiled more than 30 years ago detailing the agency's involvement over the previous quarter century in crimes both at home and abroad.