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Montevideo, October 5th 2024 - 21:19 UTC

Stories for 2024

  • Saturday, May 18th 2024 - 09:14 UTC

    Cambridge will vote to award Freedom of the City to Ice Patrol HMS Protector

    HMS Protector has very close links with the British Antarctic Survey and the Scott Polar Institute, both in Cambridge.

    Next 23 May a full council meeting from the landlocked city of Cambridge will decide on plans to award the Royal Navy Ice Patrol HMS Protector, Freedom of the City.

  • Saturday, May 18th 2024 - 07:28 UTC

    Gibraltar Commissioner of Police attends Guardia Civil anniversary parade

    Commissioner Richard Ullger and Assistant Cathal Yeats were in Algeciras where they attended the 180th anniversary parade of the founding of the Guardia Civil.

    At the invitation of the Colonel of the Spanish Guardia Civil, Francisco Almansa, Commissioner of Police Richard Ullger and Assistant Commissioner Cathal Yeats were in Algeciras where they attended the 180th anniversary parade of the founding of the Guardia Civil.

  • Friday, May 17th 2024 - 21:17 UTC

    Argentine Gov't submits bill to Congress providing for easier gun ownership or disposal

    The Pevaf ceased to be in force after Dec. 31, 2023, because no extension had been granted by Congress unlike in previous years

    The Argentine administration of President Javier Milei sent this week a bill to Congress to make legal gun ownership easier while at the same time encouraging holders wishing to do so to dispose of their weapons. According to the Security Ministry, there are some 800,000 unregistered firearms users nationwide.

  • Friday, May 17th 2024 - 20:18 UTC

    Milei lands in Madrid, praises his administration's achievements

    During the weekend, Milei is also scheduled to hold encounters with Spanish businesspeople

    Argentine President Javier Milei landed Friday in Madrid after a refueling stopover in the Canary Islands, for a series of engagements, none including a member of the Spanish government or the royal house. Also aboard the ARG 01 aircraft was Presidential Secretary Karina Milei.

  • Friday, May 17th 2024 - 19:35 UTC

    Brazil to host 2027 women's football World Cup

    The news came as some consolation for Brazilians going through unprecedented storms and floods, CBF President Ednaldo Rodrigues said

    Brazil was chosen Friday by 119 votes to 78 to host the 2027 edition of the Women's Football World Cup, it was announced in Bangkok, Thailand, where the sport's governing body, FIFA, held its General Assembly. The South American country was preferred to the consortium formed by Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany. It will be the tenth version of the competition and the first in this part of the globe.

  • Friday, May 17th 2024 - 12:19 UTC

    Colombian prison director gunned down by hitmen

    Col. Fernández had been threatened before. He retired from the Colombian police in 2017

    Retired Colombian Colonel Elmer Fernández, director of the La Modelo prison in Bogotá, was gunned down by hitmen Thursday, Justice Minister Nestor Osuna confirmed. The assassination was carried out down a national road north of the country's capital, it was explained. Fernández was not driving his vehicle.

  • Friday, May 17th 2024 - 11:59 UTC

    Argentina's industrial activity keeps dropping

    The sharp drop can be partly explained by last year's “soybean” dollar boosting sales abroad

    Despite victorious announcements from President Javier Milei's government, industrial activity in Argentina fell for the tenth consecutive month amid a growing loss of purchasing power. Interannually, a 17.2% drop was recorded after March's 4.7% decline. In addition, the first quarter of 2024 showed a year-on-year 11.7% slide.

  • Friday, May 17th 2024 - 11:55 UTC

    Uruguay creates “Residence by rootedness” legal figure for asylum seekers

    “They enter as refugees, but they are not refugees, so this limbo is generated,” Paganini explained

    Uruguayan authorities came up with the so-called “Residence by rootedness” (“residencia por arraigo”) solution to help some 20,000 migrants who had their asylum requests rejected but would otherwise need a consular visa to stay in the country, it was announced in Montevideo.

  • Thursday, May 16th 2024 - 22:25 UTC

    Peña highlights Paraguay's progress and Argentina's lack thereof

    In addition to his accolade in leadership, Peña met with high-ranking White House officials to discuss global affairs

    Paraguayan President Santiago Peña highlighted his country's “remarkable growth” and “flourishing democracy” in contrast with Argentina's mercurial performance. He made those remarks late Wednesday upon receiving the “CHLI Founders Award for International Leadership” during the Annual Gala and Leadership Awards in Washington DC.

  • Thursday, May 16th 2024 - 21:58 UTC

    A forum on decolonization calling on two other countries to decide the future of the Falklands people?

    MLA Teslyn Barkman: “Our people and our home are not commodities to be traded”

    The speech was delivered in Venezuela by Teslyn Barkman Falkland Islands MLA at the Caribbean Regional Seminar on the Implementation of the Fourth International Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism, (14/16 May), ahead of the Special Committee on Decolonization later this year.