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Montevideo, April 19th 2024 - 00:59 UTC

Politics

  • Saturday, May 28th 2016 - 07:02 UTC

    Falklands considering review of response protocol to visitors' misbehavior actions

    PN reports that action is being taken following LAN passengers recently attempting to take non permitted items on to a flight out of the Falklands.

    The Falkland Islands government is considering a review of the response protocol to actions committed by visitors who ignore Islands' rules or are involved in misbehavior, harassing locals as happened this month, reports the Penguin News in this Friday's edition. The different branches of Falklands' government act coordinately and effectively, in such cases and admit it usually involves a minority of Argentine visitors.

  • Saturday, May 28th 2016 - 06:38 UTC

    UK and Eire farmers warn about falling farm-gate prices, and celebrate exclusion of Mercosur beef

    NFUS livestock committee chairman Charlie Adam said that processors must start working with farmer representatives, rather than dictating to them

    Following a meeting to discuss common concerns, the British Isles' farming unions – NFU Scotland, the English NFU, NFU Cymru, the Ulster Farmers Union and the Irish Farmers Association – issued a joint statement warning buyers that the downward pressure on farm-gate prices was “sapping confidence” out of the sector.

  • Saturday, May 28th 2016 - 06:25 UTC

    Rousseff's final impeachment vote in the Senate scheduled for August

    “June 20 is the date fixed for Rousseff's interrogation before the commission... She may choose to attend or be represented by her counsel” reported Agencia Brasil.

    “The impeachment effort against suspended President Dilma Rousseff may reach a final decision in August, according to a work schedule presented Wednesday by Senator Antonio Anastasia, rapporteur of the current Procedural Commission for the Impeachment,” the state news agency Agencia Brasil reported on Wednesday.

  • Saturday, May 28th 2016 - 06:08 UTC

    UK-Argentina: a new start for an old relationship, according to The Economist

    The 60-metre Palladian clock tower was a gift from the city’s British community to mark the centenary of Argentina’s 1810 revolution

    With its green bell tower and royal coat of arms, the Torre Monumental in Buenos Aires would not look out of place in a British market town. The 60-metre Palladian clock tower was a gift from the city’s British community to mark the centenary of Argentina’s 1810 revolution (though it was completed in 1916). On May 24th this year around 200 people gathered to commemorate its centenary.

  • Saturday, May 28th 2016 - 05:53 UTC

    Falklands claim and UN chief post bid', “not incompatible” for Argentine minister Malcorra

    “What we have been saying regarding the Malvinas is what we have said since the day we took office ... and I see no incompatibility” between that and becoming secretary-general, Malcorra said

    Argentina's foreign minister Susana Malcorra said on Friday she believes there's no conflict of interest between her bid to be the next U.N. secretary-general and her ministerial work including pressing Argentina's sovereignty claim over the disputed Falkland Islands.

  • Friday, May 27th 2016 - 08:04 UTC

    Paraguay requests meeting of Mercosur foreign ministers to address Venezuela situation

    Foreign minister Eladio Loizaga said he had received precise instructions from president Horacio Cartes to ask for the Mercosur foreign ministers meeting.

    Paraguay formally requested on Thursday a meeting of Mercosur foreign ministers to address the situation in Venezuela which is undergoing a critical political, social and economic scenario. The request was presented to Uruguay which currently holds the chair of the trade block made up of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Venezuela.

  • Friday, May 27th 2016 - 07:08 UTC

    Trump is over the top: with 1237 delegates he becomes Republican candidate

    With 303 delegates at stake in five state primaries on June 7, Trump will easily pad his total, avoiding a contested convention in Cleveland.

    United States presidential candidate Donald Trump reached the number of delegates needed to clinch the Republican nomination for president on Thursday, completing an unlikely rise that has upended the political landscape and set the stage for a bitter fall campaign. It takes 1,237 delegates to win the Republican nomination and Trump has reached 1,238.

  • Friday, May 27th 2016 - 06:56 UTC

    Chilean students back in the streets 'tired of waiting' for the education reform

    Police in the capital Santiago reported that 117 people were arrested and 32 officers injured on Thursday.

    Hooded protesters pelted stones at police who fired tear gas and water cannons in the Chilean capital Thursday, as thousands of students staged fresh street rallies demanding free university education. Students rallied in the center of Santiago, where security forces tried to block their path.

  • Thursday, May 26th 2016 - 11:51 UTC

    A debt agenda for G7 meeting in Japan

    In the United States, the Congressional Budget Office estimates that the federal government debt doubled over the past decade, from 36% of GDP to 74% of GDP.

    By Martin Feldstein - On May 26-27, the heads of the Group of Seven leading industrial countries will gather in Japan to discuss common security and economic problems. A major common problem that deserves their attention is the unsustainable increase in the major developed countries’ national debt. Failure to address the explosion of government borrowing will have adverse effects on the global economy and on debt-burdened countries themselves.

  • Thursday, May 26th 2016 - 06:53 UTC

    Rousseff claims Temer intends to “privatize” Brazil's pre-salt oil reserves

    The pre-salt region is estimated to hold tens of billions of barrels of crude equivalent, at 7.000 meters depths offshore Brazil's southeastern coast.

    Brazil's suspended president, Dilma Rousseff, on Wednesday accused interim head of state Michel Temer of intending to “privatize” the oil discovered in recent years in deep waters of the Atlantic Ocean and thus deprive the nation's education sector of funding.