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Montevideo, September 11th 2024 - 17:06 UTC

Stories for 2024

  • Thursday, March 7th 2024 - 08:39 UTC

    Gibraltar new governor takes office June: Lieutenant General Sir Benjamin Bathurst

    The new Governor arrives in Gibraltar having served most recently as the UK’s military representative to NATO and the EU.

    Lieutenant General Sir Benjamin Bathurst, KCVO, CBE, has been appointed as the next Governor of Gibraltar, in succession to Vice Admiral Sir David Steel KBE, KStJ, DL. Sir Benjamin will take up the post in June 2024, with Sir David set to depart Gibraltar towards the end of May 2024.

  • Thursday, March 7th 2024 - 08:09 UTC

    Adrianzén Olaya sworn in as Peru's new Prime Minister

    Adrianzén Olaya resigned as Justice Minister in 2015 to avoid impeachment

    Gustavo Lino Adrianzén Olaya was sworn in Wednesday as Peru's new Prime Minister (technically chairman of the Council of Ministers) following Alberto Otárola Peñaranda's resignation on Tuesday amid an influence-peddling scandal involving the hiring of a woman he called “my love” at the Defense Ministry.

  • Thursday, March 7th 2024 - 04:44 UTC

    HMS Trent seized £290.66m of cocaine in two huge blows to drug runners in the Caribbean

    This was HMS Trent’s second drugs bust in the space of three weeks, having seized £70.1m of cocaine in a separate operation in January

    A Royal Navy warship seized £290.66m of cocaine and narcotics in two huge blows to drug runners in the Caribbean. British sailors, Royal Marines and a US Coast Guard team on HMS Trent intercepted a suspected smuggling speedboat south of the US Virgin Islands.

  • Wednesday, March 6th 2024 - 22:55 UTC

    María Corina Machado hits back at Lula da Silva's criticism: “Me crying, President Lula?”

    “Me crying, President Lula? Are you saying that because I'm a woman? You don't know me. I am fighting to assert the right of millions of Venezuelans who voted for me,” said Machado.

    María Corina Machado, the opposition candidate elected in Venezuela's October primary elections, has responded strongly to Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's recent comments indirectly criticizing her candidacy.

  • Wednesday, March 6th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

    Argentina: Milei pledges to lower taxes soon

    Milei also pointed out that State expenditures were cut down 30% in January and another 36% last month

    Argentine President Javier Milei said Tuesday at the Expoagro 2024 rural event in the city of San Nicolás in the province of Buenos Aires that “by improving the fiscal numbers, the door would be opened for us to start lowering taxes.”

  • Wednesday, March 6th 2024 - 10:42 UTC

    Boric gives thumbs down to Israel's presence at aerospace event

    Boric's government gave no official reason for its decision

    Chile's Government of President Gabriel Boric Font has given the thumbs down to the presence of Israeli companies at the 2024 edition of the traditional aerospace FIDAE event, which was announced in Santiago on Tuesday. A statement from the Defense Ministry read that the measure was adopted “by decision of the Chilean government” with no further explanations as to the reasons for it, although it is speculated that it is in reprisal of Israel's military deployment in Gaza.

  • Wednesday, March 6th 2024 - 10:40 UTC

    Brazilian Air Force phasing out iconic Hercules

    The iconic model will be replaced by the locally-built KC-390

    Brazil's Air Force (FAB) is phasing out the iconic US-built Lockheed C-130 Hercules four-engined turboprop aircraft to replace it with the locally-produced Embraer KC-390 Millennium, of which a total of 19 units are expected to be delivered.

  • Wednesday, March 6th 2024 - 10:18 UTC

    Peru's Prime Minister resigns amid influence-peddling scandal

    Otárola thanked President Boluarte for her confidence during the 440 days he remained in office

    Alberto Otárola Peñaranda has turned in his resignation as chairman of the Council of Ministers, a position also referred to as that of the “Prime Minister,” after a scandal involving one irregular hiring went public, it was reported in Lima on Tuesday.

  • Wednesday, March 6th 2024 - 10:09 UTC

    US: Trump v. Biden rematch virtually set after Super Tuesday's results

    Biden is under flak for his age while Trump faces numerous legal actions against him en route to November

    According to projections following Tuesday's results in the primary elections of both major parties in the United States, a rematch of the 2020 contest between Donald Trump and Joseph Biden will take place in November this year.

  • Wednesday, March 6th 2024 - 09:59 UTC

    Paraguay reports 0% inflation in February, but at what cost?

    Paraguay today has the strongest macroeconomic scenario in Latin America, President Santiago Peña said earlier this year in Spain

    Paraguay's Central Bank (BCP) announced this week that inflation in February amounted to 0% from January's values despite increases in education and food, particularly eggs, it was reported in Asunción. In the same month last year, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) had gone up 0.5%. However, these achievements have a price tag.