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Montevideo, December 21st 2024 - 17:50 UTC

Stories for September 2024

  • Friday, September 20th 2024 - 23:24 UTC

    Lacalle Pou has 45% approval, study shows

    Lacalle's chances of running for a second term are yet to be gauged, the survey found

    Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou was found to have a 45% approval rating according to a study by pollsters Cifra conducted during the month of August and released Thursday in Montevideo. The head of state who is nearing the end of his five-year term also had a 40% negative image, the survey showed.

  • Friday, September 20th 2024 - 23:00 UTC

    Haitian gov't announces security measures for merchant ships sailing to and from Port-au-Prince

    Conille's government is faced with shipping companies threatening to halt operations in the country as gangs favor smuggling to formal foreign trade

    Haitian authorities have announced that merchant ships will be escorted then entering a leaving Port-au-Prince given the mounting insecurity in the Caribbean country. Interim Prime Minister Garry Conille made this decision after four ships left to avoid gang violence.

  • Friday, September 20th 2024 - 10:27 UTC

    Brazil evaluating return to summer daylight saving time

    Silveira said there was no energy risk in 2024 but it was necessary to think with an eye on 2025 and 2026

    Brazil's National Electric System Operator (ONS) suggested the federal government implement a summer daylight saving time scheme as part of its contingency plan, Agencia Brasil reported Thursday. The measure is now under evaluation with a decision due in the coming days, according to Energy Minister Alexandre Silveira, who also explained that even if adopted, it may not necessarily last the whole summer.

  • Friday, September 20th 2024 - 10:06 UTC

    Water deficit places Ecuador under “red alert”

    Some 77,000 troops were deployed to protect Ecuador's key sites during nighttime blackouts

    A red alert has been declared in several parts of Ecuador hit by an unprecedented drought that resulted among other things in mass power cuts in a country already hit by spreading forest fires.

  • Friday, September 20th 2024 - 09:34 UTC

    Unemployment keeps growing in Argentina

    Consumption was also reported to have decreased significantly

    According to a report from Argentina's National Institute of Statistics and Census (Indec), unemployment in the South American country reached 7.6 % in the second quarter of 2024. The figures were consistent with the 7.7% recorded in the previous trimester but represented a sharp interannual deterioration from the 6.2% during the same period of 2023.

  • Friday, September 20th 2024 - 09:04 UTC

    Argentine woman in England killed by her son

    Juliana had moved to England at the age of 20

    A 48-year-old Mar del Plata-born woman living in England was shot dead at her Luton home. The perpetrator appears to have been her 18-year-old son who would have also killed his two siblings. The suspect, named Nicholas Prosper, has been placed in custody. At the time of his detention some 600 meters from the crime scene he was still in possession of the gun used to assassinate Juliana Falcón, her son Kyle (16), and her daughter Giselle (13).

  • Friday, September 20th 2024 - 08:02 UTC

    Falklands, confirmed case of avian influenza in Surf Bay, close to Stanley

    Since 30 October 2023, 113 suspect birds/animals have been reported, 72 sets of swabs have been taken. Nineteen have returned positive results and 53 negative results

    The Falkland Islands Director of Natural Resources has released the following, “On Monday 16 September 2024 swabs that were taken from a dead Gentoo penguin on Surf Bay were tested and returned positive for HPAI. Given that this is an isolated case of one single bird, that is more than 1km from poultry or a colony, a level 1 response will be followed and a full protection zone will not be declared.”

  • Thursday, September 19th 2024 - 18:49 UTC

    European Parliament says González Urrutia is Venezuela's President-elect

    González Urrutia said he would continue to work for a democratic Venezuela from abroad and hoped to be back in his country in January for his intended inauguration

    The European Parliament Thursday recognized Unitarian Democratic Platform (PUD) candidate Edmundo González Urrutia as the legitimate winner of Venezuela's July 28 controversial presidential elections at which the incumbent Nicolás Maduro claims to have prevailed. Strasbourg reached this decision with 309 votes in favor, 201 against and 12 abstentions. Disenfranchised politician María Corina Machado has also been recognized as leader of the democratic forces in Venezuela.

  • Thursday, September 19th 2024 - 14:12 UTC

    Israel reopens Embassy in Asunción

    From left to right: Magen, Peña, and Ohana cut the traditional ribbon during Wednesday's ceremony

    Israel reopened its Embassy in Asunción after six years Wednesday in a ceremony attendedd by President Santiago Peña, Foreign Minister Ruben Ramírez Lezcano, Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana, and Israel's Ambassador to Uruguay and Paraguay Yoed Magen, among other high-ranking dignitaries. The mission had been closed in 2018 after then-President Mario Abdo Benítez moved the Paraguayan Embassy from Jerusalem back to Tel Aviv.

  • Thursday, September 19th 2024 - 10:27 UTC

    Venezuela issues arrest warrants against Milei, his sister and Minister Bullrich

    Saab called Milei “the most ferocious violator of human rights in the continent”

    Venezuela's Public Prosecutor's Office announced Wednesday the opening of an inquiry against Argentine President Javier Milei for alleged crimes against humanity and the “theft” of a Venezuelan state-owned airplane handed over to the United States. As a result, arrest warrants were issued against Milei, his sister and Presidential Secretary Karina Milei, and Security Minister Patricia Bullrich.