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Montevideo, November 23rd 2024 - 21:54 UTC

Stories for 2024

  • Tuesday, October 8th 2024 - 22:56 UTC

    Colombia: Petro under probe over campaign finances

    “The coup d'état has begun,” Petro claimed

    Colombian electoral authorities announced Tuesday that they were launching an inquiry against President Gustavo Petro for allegedly overstepping campaign financing caps in 2022 en route to the Casa de Nariño. The head of state replied -once again- that a coup d'état was boiling up.

  • Tuesday, October 8th 2024 - 13:33 UTC

    Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to artificial intelligence pioneers

    The two laureates “used fundamental concepts from statistical physics to design artificial neural networks that function as associative memories and find patterns in large data sets,” it was explained

    Sweden's Royal Academy of Sciences announced Tuesday that it was granting the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton for their “discoveries and inventions in artificial intelligence” and “machine learning with artificial neural networks.” The distinction also represented a € 970,000 cheque.

  • Tuesday, October 8th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

    Peronist Party in search of a new (or old) leader

    Quintela or CFK? Who will guide Peronism's attempt at regaining power in Argentina?

    After former President Alberto Fernández was forced to resign as chairman of the Peronist Party given the domestic violence and corruption scandals in which he is involved, the vacancy opened up a new front that may well decide the future of Argentine politics in the years to come. While former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner intends to fill the void, La Rioja Governor Ricardo Quintela came forward as a new option.

  • Tuesday, October 8th 2024 - 10:03 UTC

    Argentine VP meets with Spanish Senate Speaker in Madrid

    Villarruel and the conservative Rollán talked for over an hour

    Argentine Vice President Victoria Villarruel met Monday in Madrid with her Senate Speaker colleague Pedro Rollán on the opening day of her first trip abroad since her inauguration last year.

  • Tuesday, October 8th 2024 - 09:32 UTC

    Uruguayan gov't says Israel entitled to self-defense

    “It is essential to seek diplomatic solutions,” Paganini underlined

    Uruguayan Foreign Ministry Omar Paganini Monday underlined Israel's right to self-defense on the first anniversary of the Hamas raids in which over 1,000 people were killed and over 200 taken hostage to the Gaza Strip, thus triggering Tel Aviv's full-scale military response. Montevideo's top diplomat also expressed his concern given the number of civilian casualties and forced displacements while urging all parties to de-escalate the conflict.

  • Tuesday, October 8th 2024 - 09:30 UTC

    Second firefighting aircraft lands in Bolivia

    “We are attacking fires by land and air, sparing no effort or resources to protect our population, our flora, and fauna,” said Arce

    A second four-engined turboprop Electra tanker aircraft arrived in Bolivia Monday to join the firefighting efforts against wild flames hitting various parts of the country, particularly Santa Cruz de la Sierra, where the Viru Viru International Airport was closed for hours due to poor visibility.

  • Monday, October 7th 2024 - 22:04 UTC

    Brazil transitioning from extremely dry weather to heavy rains

    Flooding might occur in some cities, a Metsul expert warned

    Brazil is in for one of the wettest weeks in the last semester, the weather agency MetSul warned Monday, as heavy rains, lightning, hail, and gales have been forecasted for the South American largest country's Midwest, Southeast, and South after an extended drought with very low air humidity and intense heat.

  • Monday, October 7th 2024 - 15:09 UTC

    New Chair for South Georgia Association

    Mrs Philippa Foster Back CBE

    The Committee of the South Georgia Association has appointed Mrs Philippa Foster Back CBE to be its new Chairman in succession to Professor David Drewry, who is retiring.

  • Monday, October 7th 2024 - 12:05 UTC

    2024 Medicine Nobel Prize goes to team of US researchers

    ”Ambros and Ruvkun's seminal discovery in the tiny worm C. elegans was unexpected and revealed a new dimension of gene regulation

    US researchers Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun were awarded the 2024 Medicine Nobel Prize for their findings in post-transcriptional gene regulation (microRNA) which have proven “to be of fundamental importance in how organisms develop and function,” it was announced Monday in Stockholm while launching the start of Nobel Prize Week. They were granted some € 970,000 for their contribution to science.

  • Monday, October 7th 2024 - 10:43 UTC

    Almost 92% of Chileans disapprove of country's Judiciary

    Hermosilla's proven link in a corruption case to a Supreme Court judge dealt a heavy blow to public perception of the Judiciary

    A survey released Sunday in Santiago showed that nearly 92% of Chileans disapproved of their country's Judiciary. The Plaza Pública Cadem study was conducted amid the corruption scandal involving criminal lawyer Luis Hermosilla and various magistrates and officials from former President Sebastián Piñera's administration (2018-2022).