Politics

• Tuesday, April 10th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Bush renews immigration bill call

  US President George W Bush has again stressed the need for agreement in Washington on immigration reform.
  Visiting a border post in Arizona, Mr Bush said the US needed a system that secured its frontiers while honouring its history as a nation of immigrants.

• Tuesday, April 10th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  MoD seeks help to clear thousands of mines

  

  The Ministry of Defence is looking for a private company to clear the Falklands of the estimated 25,000 Argentine mines still buried there, The Daily Telegraph has learned.

• Monday, April 9th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Peru does not discard The Hague over Chile maritime border issue

  Following the thwarted nationalist march that took place close to the border between Chile and Peru last week, Peruvian President Alan García gave the first clear signal this weekend that Peru will take the long-standing maritime border issue to the International Court of Justice in The Hague.

• Monday, April 9th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Protesting teachers bring Argentina to a near standstill

  

  Argentina was brought to a near standstill on Monday amid protests over the killing of a teacher in the Patagonian province of Neuquen during a protest clash last week.

• Monday, April 9th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  New attempt, this time in India, to end Doha Round deadlock

  

  Four leading trade powers will meet Wednesday in New Delhi, India for two days of potentially make-or-break talks to end a deadlock in the Doha Round of global trade negotiations.

• Sunday, April 8th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Pulp mills dispute: picketers preparing new timetable

  

  One of the three week long blockades by environmentalists and activists along the Argentine-Uruguayan fluvial border was lifted Sunday mid day, a second is expected to follow mid night and the third could continue for an indefinite period, according to the latest news from the area.

• Sunday, April 8th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentine provinces teachers' dispute spills nationwide

  Argentina's two main unionized labor organizations have declared a strike for Monday following the death of a teacher who was hit by a tear gas canister during a teachers' protest march last Wednesday in the Patagonian province of Neuquén.

• Saturday, April 7th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Venezuela, assuming chair of OAS Permanent Council

  

  Venezuela's Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States (OAS), Ambassador Jorge Valero, assumed the chairmanship of the Permanent Council and talked about the need for deeper conceptual and institutional change within the hemispheric organization.

• Friday, April 6th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Morales: Following Chavez or own path?

  

  Rewrite the constitution: check. Redistribute idle land: check. Rail against U.S. imperialism: check. Nationalize the phone company: check.

• Friday, April 6th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Pope commences annual Holy Week ceremonies

  

  Pope Benedict XVI bathed the feet of 12 laymen at a Rome basilica in a Holy Thursday tradition symbolizing humility, as he kept up an intense schedule of public ceremonies that will culminate on Easter.