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Montevideo, November 26th 2024 - 10:48 UTC

Stories for 2024

  • Saturday, April 27th 2024 - 10:45 UTC

    Repair ship RFA Diligence, involved in Falklands and Gulf wars, sold to Turkey

    RFA Diligence was previously chartered by the British government to support naval activities during the Falklands conflict in 1982.

    The Portsmouth media has reported that RFA Diligence, a Royal Fleet Auxiliary ship previously involved in the Falklands and Gulf conflicts, has arrived in Turkey after being sold for recycling by the UK Defense Equipment Sales Authority (DESA).

  • Saturday, April 27th 2024 - 10:37 UTC

    RFA Cardigan Bay in crucial support task to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza civilians

    “The crew of RFA Cardigan Bay are central to the UK's contribution to the multinational plan to greatly expand the flow of aid into Gaza”

    UK Forces.net has reported that a Royal Fleet Auxiliary vessel will provide accommodation to hundreds of American soldiers and sailors in the eastern Mediterranean who are helping to deliver aid to Gaza. The US military has started the construction of a temporary pier off the coast of Gaza to facilitate the delivery of vital humanitarian aid.

  • Saturday, April 27th 2024 - 09:54 UTC

    Brazil opens insulin-producing plant

    Lula recalled that his 7-year-old great-granddaughter had diabetes and would need the medication

    Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Friday participated in the city of Nova Lima, state of Minas Gerais, in the opening of the Biomm recombinant human insulin-producing plant. The Government will purchase the entire output to make it available free of charge nationwide for diabetes patients. The facility is said to have cost around R$ 800 million (US$ 156 million) through loans from public banks. The South American country currently imports 95% of the insulin it uses. Some 15.7 million adults are said to have the malady nationwide.

  • Saturday, April 27th 2024 - 08:41 UTC

    Venice combats massive tourism: day visitors will be charged a €5 fee

    On average some 80,000 holidaymakers stream into Venice every day, most of whom only spend a few hours before returning

    Venice started charging this week €5 (US$ 5.30) fee for day-trippers who are not staying overnight. Despite the launch of the scheme to curb mass tourism was postponed several times, it will now apply until mid July.

  • Friday, April 26th 2024 - 20:59 UTC

    Thousands of layoffs feared in Argentina next month

    The number of Industrial SMEs has remained unchanged for quite a while amid an increase in population, Rosato warned

    Argentine SMEs fear a wave of sackings in the coming days due to President Javier Milei's policies which may have been somewhat successful at curbing inflation but at a cost. The Industriales Pymes Argentinos (IPA) chamber released a report saying that some 17,000 jobs had been lost since Milei took office on Dec. 10, 2023, and further suspensions and layoffs appear on May's radar.

  • Friday, April 26th 2024 - 20:06 UTC

    Argentina's Central Bank lowers basic interest rates

    The new contraction will be used to pay less interest

    Argentina's Central Bank (BCRA) this week lowered the benchmark interest rate by another 10 percentage points to 60% annually, it was reported in Buenos Aires. It was the fourth such cut since Javier Milei took office on December 10, 2023, when the rate stood at 133%. “BCRA announces that as of 04-25-2024, the rate for 1-business-day maturity passive operations will be 60%,” it said in a statement. It was also the second 10-point cut in April alone.

  • Friday, April 26th 2024 - 19:34 UTC

    US sanctions: Cubana flights to Buenos Aires lifted after refueling is denied

    Cubana had resumed its services to Buenos Aires almost a year ago

    As President Javier Milei's Argentina deepens its allegiance to the United States, Cuba's flag carrier Cubana lifted this week its regular service between Buenos Aires and Havana after fuel suppliers announced they would no longer be serving a company blacklisted from Washington in what seems like an encore of what happened to the Emtrasur Boeing 747-300 freighter flying under the Venezuelan flag following a spell with Iran's Mahan Air.

  • Friday, April 26th 2024 - 17:09 UTC

    Alberto Fernández responds sternly to Milei's accusations: “My dog doesn't advise me”

    Fernández refuted Milei's characterization of him as a “puppet” and asserted his independence of thought and action

    Former Argentine President Alberto Fernández answered libertarian President Javier Milei, following remarks made by Milei during a speech at Fundación Libertad where he referred to Fernández as a “puppet”. Fernández's response, laden with irony and defiance, underscored his “commitment” to rational decision-making and dismissed allegations of being influenced by external forces.

  • Friday, April 26th 2024 - 15:41 UTC

    Violence against news teams on the rise in Brazilian Amazon

    The case of Bruno and Dom in 2022 helped raise awareness on the matter

    Brazil's National Federation of Journalists (Fenaj) found that there have been 230 cases of violence against press freedom in the nine states of the Legal Amazon in the last ten years, Agencia Brasil reported. According to a study released this week, the State of Pará accounts for the largest number of violent acts against newspeople in the Amazon, with 89 cases recorded in a decade, followed by Amazonas (38), Mato Grosso (31) and Rondônia (20). The murder of English journalist Dom Phillips and indigenist Bruno Pereira in 2022 stands out among these events.

  • Friday, April 26th 2024 - 15:08 UTC

    Colombian Army kills 15 rebels after failing peace talks

    These things happen when you leave the negotiating table, Petro explained

    Colombia's Army this week gunned down 15 rebels from the EMC guerrillas, a dissident group from the old FARC operating in the department of Cauca that refuses to enter peace talks with Bogotá. “War is war,” President Gustavo Petro argued after the latest military update, meaning that these things happen when one of the parties leaves the negotiating table. Another 12 rogue fighters were wounded, it was reported.