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BBC NEWS | Nick Bryant's Australia (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
In a room adorned by paintings by Sidney Nolan and Arthur Boyd, I interviewed Kevin Rudd this morning on the prospects for the Copenhagen summit. Along with the Mexican President Felipe Calderon, he's been appointed a "friend of the chair", and is therefore set to play a leading role in the negotiations. He says that there will not be a legally-binding treaty at Copenhagen, but there will...
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PrairiePundit (Free subscription) | yesterday
Washington Post: ... After decades of mistrust and sometimes betrayal, Mexican and U.S. authorities are increasingly setting aside their differences to unite against a common enemy. According to interviews in Washington and Mexico City, the two countries are sharing sensitive intelligence and computer technology, military hardware and, perhaps most importantly, U.S. know-how to train and vet Mexican...
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Friday called for "peaceful but deep changes" in the country to meet the challenge of generating employment and promoting prosperity and economic growth. At an official ceremony to mark the 99th anniversary of the Mexican Revolution, Calderon said Mexico needs changes "with the same intensity of a revolution." Calderon said the country should...
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Mexican President Felipe Calderon said on Wednesday that the nation is considering creating a space agency to boost the development of astronomy and space science. "Right now, the Congress is considering the creation of an aerospace agency, which already has a budget of 122 million pesos (9.38 million U.S. dollars) committed," Calderon said at a ceremony honoring Jose Hernandez Moreno, a...
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The Westerner (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
The bodies of four alleged gangsters, stuffed into a parked car near President Felipe Calderon's compound in this capital city, carried a message of divine retribution: “The wicked are denied their light, and the upraised arm is broken,” proclaimed the biblical passage, Job 38:15. Scrawled with a marker on the backs of three of the bodies, a single word — “Kidnapper.”...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Forbes magazine's decision to name the Mexico's most-wanted drug lord Joaquin Guzman in its list of the world's most powerful people has upset the Mexican government. A spokesman for the department that oversees domestic security described Guzman's appearance at no. 41 in the list as an insult to the the struggle against drug cartels and "a justification of crime." Nearly 14,000 people,...
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Booker Rising (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Obama’s Free-Trade Credentials Draw China, APEC Scrutiny U.S. President Barack Obama flew to Shanghai from an Asia-Pacific summit where leaders questioned his commitment to free trade, endorsed China’s stance on fighting protectionism and declined to back U.S. calls for a stronger yuan . The 21-member Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation group, representing 54 percent of the global economy,...
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Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Rudd, Calderon Seek to Save Copenhagen Talks, Australian Says - Bloomberg.com Nov. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and his Mexican counterpart Felipe Calderon have been at the center of a late bid to prevent the collapse of next month’s Copenhagen talks, the Australian newspaper said. World leaders have agreed to a compromise deal on climate change aimed at salvaging next...
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Obama Foodorama (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
No progress for climate issues Yesterday, President Obama had an unscheduled breakfast in Singapore added to the schedule for his Asia trip, to discuss climate change issues. US Deputy National Security Adviser for Economic Affairs Michael Froman detailed the breakfast for the press pool; it was arranged at the last minute by Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Mexican President Felipe Calderon...
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The Observer (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
In his final dispatch from the drug-fuelled war along the US-Mexican border, our correspondent profiles the deadly army which rules its territory through murder and ruthless intimidation of public officials – with the multibillion-dollar narcotics trade as its prize Gabriela was riding the Number 20 bus into Reynosa in north-eastern Mexico when the gang struck. Heavily armed men, faces hidden...
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
SINGAPORE — A major pact within tantalizing reach, President Barack Obama aims to nudge forward an arms-control deal in talks with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. The 21-nation Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum brought Obama to Singapore, but he is focusing on individual meetings Sunday with Medvedev and with Indonesia's Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, president of the world's largest Muslim...
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Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/11/14/obama-attend-climate-change-breakfast-apec-summit/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%253A+foxnews%252Fpolitics+%2528FOXNews.com+-+Politics%2529 President Obama will attend a hastily arranged climate change breakfast Sunday at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, a White House official said. Australian Prime Minister Kevin...
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Fox News (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Mexican President Felipe Calderon organized what a White House official described as "an informal breakfast meeting on climate change" -- a meeting that was not part of the official APEC program.
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American Conservative Daily (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Mexican President Felipe Calderon organized what a White House official described as "an informal breakfast meeting on climate change" -- a meeting that was not part of the official APEC program.
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War News Updates (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
From The Atlantic: In the almost three years since President Felipe Calderón launched a war on drug cartels, border towns in Mexico have turned into halls of mirrors where no one knows who is on which side or what chance remark could get you murdered. Some 14,000 people have been killed in that time—the worst carnage since the Mexican Revolution—and part of the country is effectively...
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