World Politics and News

The Falkland Islands Government has appointed Edelman to provide public relations support for the next three years.

The Council of Canadians took its message to Toronto teachers that their pension fund -- the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan -- should divest its shares from for-profit, private water utilities in Chile.

Our message -- teachers don't support private water, so neither should their pension fund. The OTPP owns 50.83 per cent of the Chilean water utility Essbio, 69.4 per cent of Esval, and 100 per cent of ANSM.

More than 200 hundred teachers signed our petition with this demand as they left the Air Canada Centre yesterday after their professional development day gathering there.

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Brazilian incumbent presidential candidate Dilma Rousseff held on Wednesday a private meeting with visiting Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos and promised if elected that Brazil would continue with its willingness to mediate with the Colombian FARC guerrillas, as long as Bogotá formally makes a request.

Venezuela will buy a group of large farms and thousands of cattle from a British company announced President Hugo Chavez as part of his populist drive to redistribute land among the country’s peasants.

If someone were to rank the most embattled Jewish communities in the world today, the Jewish community of Venezuela would certainly be high on that list. Over the past decade the community has shrunk by half its size, according to a report from Gil Shefler published in the Jerusalem Post.

Brazil's central bank held on Wednesday its benchmark interest rate at 10.75%, ending a monetary tightening cycle that helped cool the economy as the country prepares for October 3 presidential election.

Korea and Peru concluded in Lima negotiations for a free trade agreement (FTA), which is expected to go into effect midway through next year once it is approved by the parliaments of the two countries.

Brazil's Mato Grosso state government announced Wednesday it had registered a major mineral deposit discovery with an estimated 11.5 billion tons of iron ore of a 41% Fe grade plus another 428 million tons of phosphates.

A new labelling deal with Australia may make Europe's winemakers feel more than a little light-headed as imitations will no longer be sold with names like champagne and sherry.

More than 3.6 million foreigners from all over the world visit Chile spending nearly two billion US dollars every year. To better understand the growing tourism industry in Chile, the country’s national tourism service, Sernatur, has just released a study called “Type of Potential Tourists and Demands in Chile” which categorizes and analyzes tourists’ behaviour while visiting the country.

United States Federal Reserve will buy up more debt if the outlook worsens "appreciably", minutes from its August meeting have revealed. The central bank preferred to purchase US government bonds, but did not rule out buying further mortgage debts.

Whenever I travel and stay in a hotel, I find myself sitting slack-jawed in front of late-night television. This is because I usually never watch TV. Let's get the accusations of sanctimony and the indignant spluttering about my haughty, cultural elitist perch out of the way. I prefer to think of myself as an innocent, wandering, dewy-eyed, in the wilderness of cable TV, which is wondrously full of Here There Be Peculiar Things. Everything on television is a revelation to me.

So can somebody please explain what the holy hell is up with the baby freakshow?

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