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Montevideo, November 25th 2024 - 04:31 UTC

Stories for 2024

  • Wednesday, July 31st 2024 - 10:45 UTC

    Maduro's regime leaves Argentine Embassy powerless

    “We hold the regime responsible for the siege of this diplomatic headquarters, violating international law and the Caracas convention,” asylum seeker Pedro Urruchurtu Noselli wrote on X

    Venezuelan authorities left Argentina's Embassy in Caracas with no electricity supply Tuesday as diplomatic ties between the two countries came to a technical rift while the fate of opposition leaders Pedro Urruchurtu Noselli, Magalí Meda, Claudia Macero, Humberto Villalobos, Facundo Martínez Mottola, and Omar González, who had been granted asylum and were housed there pending a safe passage to the airport that never came was still in doubt.

  • Wednesday, July 31st 2024 - 09:07 UTC

    Israel takes down key terrorist leaders in separate strikes

    Ismail Haniyeh and Fuad Shukr played leading roles in Hamas and Hezbollah respectively

    Two key leaders of terrorist organizations technically at war with Israel were killed Tuesday with precision long-range rockets hitting the places where they were staying. Hamas' Ismail Haniyeh was in Tehran, where he had attended Masoud Pezeshkian's presidential inauguration hours earlier while Hezbollah's “senior advisor” Fuad Shukr (alias Hajj Mohsin or Muhsin Shukr) reported to leader Hassan Nasrallah, and was wanted by the US for his role in the 1983 bombing of the Marine barracks in the Lebanese capital.

  • Wednesday, July 31st 2024 - 09:01 UTC

    Baroness Chapman, new FCDO Minister for Latin America and the Caribbean

    Baroness Chapman, “our ties with Latin America are historic, rooted in shared democratic values. I look forward to renewing our partnership”

    Baroness Jennifer Chapman of Darlington has been appointed UK Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office on 18 July 2024.

  • Wednesday, July 31st 2024 - 08:59 UTC

    Falklands democracy, Select Committee on petition for VSAT License fee on August first

    The Falklands Legislative Assembly received a petition calling for the abolition or reduction of the VSAT license fee and the approval of Starlink domestic tariffs

    On Thursday August first, at 10 AM in the morning, the Select Committee on the Petition to abolish or reduce the VSAT License Fee for using Starlink, or reduce the fee to a reasonable and proportionate level will be held at the Court and Assembly Chambers, Town Hall.

  • Wednesday, July 31st 2024 - 08:20 UTC

    Falklands Ranger Guides meet the Speaker of the House of Commons

    Lindsay Hoyle MP, speaker of the House of Commons and a good friend of the Falklands, which he has visited, addresses the Girl Guides

    On Tuesday 30th July, a group of Ranger Guides from the Falkland Islands visited the Houses of Parliament to meet with the Speaker of the House of Commons, The Rt. Hon Lindsay Hoyle MP.

  • Wednesday, July 31st 2024 - 08:00 UTC

    Labour anticipates a tax increase to fill a £22bn Tory “hole” in UK public finances

    Labour said repeatedly during the election campaign there would be no tax rises on “working people”, but Conservatives had insisted Labour would increase them.

    UK Labour chancellor Rachel Reeves anticipated that the government of PM Keir Starmer will have to raise some taxes in October's Budget, following the claim on Monday that the previous Tory government left a £22bn “hole” in the public finances.

  • Tuesday, July 30th 2024 - 22:16 UTC

    Peru's gov't recognizes González Urrutia as winner of Venezuelan elections

    Maduro wants to stay in power forever through a dictatorship, González Olaechea stressed

    The Peruvian government of President Dina Boluarte Tuesday recognized opposition candidate Edmundo González Urrutia as the legitimate president-elect of Venezuela, despite the announcement by the National Electoral Council (CNE) on Sunday in Caracas that Nicolás Maduro had been voted by 51.2% of the people for the 2025-2031 term against 44.2% for the challenger. “Clearly Edmundo Gonzalez is the elected president of Venezuela; this position is shared by numerous countries, governments, and international organizations,” said Foreign Minister Javier Gonzalez Olaechea.

  • Tuesday, July 30th 2024 - 21:42 UTC

    María Corina Machado's arrest ordered, Venezuelan opposition warns

    The political climate in Venezuela has grown increasingly volatile following the contested election results

    The Venezuelan government under President Nicolás Maduro has ordered the arrest of opposition leader María Corina Machado, a prominent figure in the Plataforma Unitaria Democrática (PUD). This move, denounced by leaders within PUD, comes amid a turbulent post-election period marked by accusations of irregularities and widespread unrest.

  • Tuesday, July 30th 2024 - 19:31 UTC

    OAS report says Venezuela's elections results untrustworthy given CNE bias

    The OAS Permanent Council is to address the matter of the electoral process in Venezuela on Wednesday

    Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro's reelection is not to be taken at face value, according to the Organization of American States (OAS). The continental entity's election observation department found on Tuesday that the National Electoral Council (CNE) in Caracas is known to be pro-government biased.

  • Tuesday, July 30th 2024 - 10:56 UTC

    Angered Venezuelans take to the streets to protest against Sunday's alleged fraud

    Maduro said a coup d'état was in the making

    Venezuelans took to the streets Monday bringing down four statues of former Bolivarian leader Hugo Chávez Frías and storming key places nationwide in an apparent drive to overthrow President Nicolás Maduro, who they claimed, had won Sunday's elections through fraud.