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Montevideo, April 26th 2025 - 09:23 UTC

Stories for 2023

  • Thursday, June 22nd 2023 - 13:56 UTC

    Falklands government negotiating the acquisition of Stanley Growers

    Current managers of Stanley Growers, Tim and Jan Miller said: “We need to begin stepping back, whilst ensuring staff and customers see no change to their day to day interactions with the business.”

    The Falkland Islands Government (FIG) is currently in final negotiations with the Directors of Stanley Growers Limited and Stanley Nurseries and Garden Centre to acquire both businesses and the leases of the land on which they sit.

  • Thursday, June 22nd 2023 - 11:04 UTC

    Shooter at latest Brazil high school massacre found dead in his cell

    A second suspect remains under arrest, authorities confirmed

    The 21-year-old shooter who killed two teenagers at a high school in the Brazilian State of Parana earlier this week “was found dead in his cell Tuesday night,” authorities said. “The circumstances” of his death are under investigation, Parana's Public Security Secretariat also explained.

  • Thursday, June 22nd 2023 - 11:02 UTC

    Brazilian Gov't picks Bolsonaro's last FM for Ottawa embassy

    França was Bolsonaro's Foreign Minister from April 2021 to December 2022

    With the endorsement of Acting President Geraldo Alckmin, Brazil's Government Wednesday sent the name of former Foreign Minister Carlos França to the Senate to be appointed ambassador to Canada, it was published in the Diário Oficial da União (DOU - Official Gazette).

  • Thursday, June 22nd 2023 - 11:00 UTC

    WHO to train 6,000 healthcare pros to help Peru fight dengue

    Things can get worse “with the arrival of El Niño,” Tedros explained

    The World Health Organization (WHO) is to train more than 6,000 healthcare professionals to assist Peru in the dengue epidemic, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced Wednesday. Peru is experiencing one of its worst dengue crises, with 81,202 confirmed cases and at least 193 deaths.

  • Thursday, June 22nd 2023 - 10:52 UTC

    Brazilian Senate approves Zanin for STF post

    Zanin, 47, will be able to serve on the Court until the mandatory retirement age of 75

    With 58 votes in favor and 18 against, Brazil's Senate Wednesday approved the appointment of former President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva's lawyer Cristiano Zanin to the Supreme Federal Court (STF) to fill the vacancy left by Ricardo Lewandowski, Agencia Brasil reported.

  • Thursday, June 22nd 2023 - 10:47 UTC

    Argentina did nothing to charge toll, Paraguay's Waterway Commission finds

    Argentina has not proven it has rendered any actual service to barges along the Parana River

    Paraguay's National Waterway Commission concluded that Argentina's technical explanations for charging tolls to vessels sailing through the Parana River between the Port of Santa Fe and the Confluence with the Paraguay River were inadequate and that there was no justification for such a unilateral measure, it was reported in Asunción.

  • Thursday, June 22nd 2023 - 10:44 UTC

    Chilean President forms Commission to solve Mapuche crisis

    The Commission will have to deal with the return of ancestral lands to the indigenous people

    Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font set up a Commission for Peace and Understanding to lay the “foundations for a lasting and sustainable solution to the long-standing intercultural conflict between the Chilean State and the Mapuche people,” it was announced Wednesday in Santiago during the National Day of Indigenous Peoples holiday.

  • Thursday, June 22nd 2023 - 10:00 UTC

    Lula has busy agenda in Rome

    Lula arrived in Rome on Tuesday

    Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Argentine-born Pope Francis exchanged views for over an hour Wednesday on “the socio-political situation of the region” and discussed ”the promotion of peace (...) the fight against poverty and inequality, the respect for indigenous populations and the protection of the environment”, according to a communiqué.

  • Wednesday, June 21st 2023 - 11:45 UTC

    Falklands: ”We do not ask you to support the UK nor Argentina” but “supporting our right”

    Falklads delegation, MLA Gavin Short (L) and MLA John Birmingham (R) with Nikki Wilkis and Mavis Chipunza, both Junior Ambassadors’ for the Falkland Islands

    This Tuesday, 20 June two elected members from the Falkland Islands Assembly addressed the United Nations Special Committee on the situation with regard to the implementation of the declaration on the granting of independence to colonial countries and peoples, the so-called UN Committee of 24. The first to address the C24 was MLA Gavin Short, who criticized the aggressive attitude of Argentina towards the Falklands and mentioned several actions, which sought to undermine the Islands' economy.

  • Wednesday, June 21st 2023 - 11:27 UTC

    Argentina again calls on UK for peaceful solution to Falklands/Malvinas dispute

    Santiago Cafiero with part of the Argentine delegation addressing C24

    As announced the Argentine foreign minister Santiago Cafiero on Tuesday morning, in New York, before the United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization again called on the United Kingdom for bilateral negotiations with Argentina for a pacific and definitive solution to the sovereignty dispute over the Malvinas Islands.