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Montevideo, September 21st 2024 - 13:48 UTC

Stories for 2022

  • Thursday, June 9th 2022 - 09:40 UTC

    OAS needs to stay away from coups, Argentine FM tells Summit

    Facts show that sanctions have failed, Cafiero underlined

    Argentine Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero Wednesday told attendees at the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles that the Organization of American States (OAS) must never again legitimize destabilization processes in the region.

  • Thursday, June 9th 2022 - 09:39 UTC

    Amazonas police make arrest in British reporter case

    Pelado said he only had visual contact with Phillips and Araújo

    Brazilian authorities have arrested a suspect in the case of British journalist Dom Phillips and his local indigenous affairs expert friend Bruno Araújo Pereira who went missing in Amazonia earlier this week. Phillips and Araújo were last seen Sunday after leaving Sao Rafael in a boat on Sunday on their way to indigenous enclaves where they planned to collect materials for a future book.

  • Thursday, June 9th 2022 - 09:34 UTC

    First case of monkeypox confirmed in Brazil

    Anvisa has recommended a return to COVID-19 sanitary precautions

    A 41-year-old man from São Paulo who had just returned from Spain has been confirmed Wednesday as Brazil's first case of monkeypox. The patient is now in isolation at the Emilio Ribas Hospital in South America's largest city, which is also monitoring a 26-year-old woman, also in isolation, but with no travel record.

  • Thursday, June 9th 2022 - 09:30 UTC

    Falklands War: Armed Forces charity, SSAFA, concerned with UK public little knowledge about the conflict

    A staggering 35% of British adults could not name the year the Falklands Conflict took place and a fifth had no idea which countries fought at the time.

    This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Falklands Conflict and SSAFA, the Armed Forces charity is calling on the British public to remember those who served during the Falklands Conflict, particularly those who made the ultimate sacrifice.

  • Thursday, June 9th 2022 - 09:24 UTC

    Community transmission of monkeypox already happening, WHO says

    “Most cases are in men who have had a relationship with other men,” said Tedros

    World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus expressed his concern following new data on the spread of monkeypox allowing scientists to say community transmission of the malady is already occurring.

  • Thursday, June 9th 2022 - 09:18 UTC

    Two more bodies retrieved from doomed Bariloche hotel

    Three other people are still hospitalized, including the widow of one of the deceased

    Rescuers have found the bodies of the two Uruguayan tourists who had gone missing after a mudslide fell on a top-class hotel in Bariloche in the Argentine province of Río Negro, it was announced Wednesday, bringing the death toll up to 3 victims.

  • Thursday, June 9th 2022 - 09:10 UTC

    Liberation Day program for next Tuesday 14 June

    The Liberation Monument in front of the Secretariat building in Stanley City

    To mark the 40th Anniversary of the Liberation of the Falkland Islands from Argentine occupation in 1982, the following program has been arranged for Tuesday 14 June 2022.

  • Wednesday, June 8th 2022 - 23:53 UTC

    Royal visit to Gibraltar

    On Tuesday and Wednesday this week Gibraltar had a unique opportunity to express their unwavering loyalty to Her Majesty the Queen by welcoming The Earl and Countess of Wessex to the Rock who were visiting to celebrate Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee with the people of Gibraltar.

  • Wednesday, June 8th 2022 - 21:48 UTC

    FAO's forum on fisheries and aquaculture meets for the first time since pandemic

    FAO chief QU Dongyu, opened the virtual meeting of the 18th Session of the Committee on Fisheries (COFI) Sub-Committee on Fish Trade

    Fisheries and aquaculture still face sustainability challenges, but as trade in the sector continues to grow, its contribution to food security and the safeguarding of livelihoods remains critical, QU Dongyu, Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), said on Tuesday.

  • Wednesday, June 8th 2022 - 09:55 UTC

    With a 'quieter' Westminster, Johnson admits he might visit the Falklands

    Speaker, Sir Lindsay Hoyle, last week spent a few days in a visit to the Falkland with Boris Johnson PM and Princess Anne underlined it was always a pleasure to travel to the Falklands. (Pic PA)

    Prime minister Boris Johnson said that “now things are a bit quieter in Westminster”, he might be able to visit the Falkland Islands, pointing out he was probably the only person at the Speaker's House ceremony who has never visited the Islands.