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Montevideo, October 18th 2024 - 12:19 UTC

Stories for 2024

  • Saturday, September 21st 2024 - 10:28 UTC

    X appoints legal representative in Brazil

    Lawyer Rachel de Oliveira Villa Nova was chosen by Musk's company for the position

    Tycoon Elon Musk's social media network X appointed a legal representative in Brazil as requested by Supreme Federal Court (STF) Justice Alexandre De Moraes just before the deadline 9.29 pm deadline, Agencia Brasil reported. The company chose Lawyer Rachel de Oliveira Villa Nova for the position.

  • Saturday, September 21st 2024 - 10:08 UTC

    Paraguay exports US$ 665 million worth of beef to Chile

    Chile accounts for 50% of Paraguay's beef exports

    During a gathering this week at Chile's Embassy in Asunción to celebrate the 214th anniversary of the country's independence, Ambassador Manuel Francisco Gormaz Lira highlighted that Paraguay was Chile's fifth-largest trading partner in the region and the tenth-largest in the world. Yearly trade between the two countries amounted to US$ 1.8 billion.

  • Saturday, September 21st 2024 - 09:14 UTC

    Brazil: Bruno and Dom case defendant granted house arrest

    Oseney da Costa de Oliveira will have to wear a tracking anklet while staying with a relative in Manaus

    Fisherman Oseney da Costa de Oliveira, one of the three people detained in connection with the 2022 murder of British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenist activist Bruno Pereira, was granted house arrest Friday by case rapporteur Justice Marcos Augusto de Sousa of Brasilia's Federal First Region Regional Court (TRF1), Agencia Brasil reported.

  • Friday, September 20th 2024 - 23:24 UTC

    Lacalle Pou has 45% approval, study shows

    Lacalle's chances of running for a second term are yet to be gauged, the survey found

    Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou was found to have a 45% approval rating according to a study by pollsters Cifra conducted during the month of August and released Thursday in Montevideo. The head of state who is nearing the end of his five-year term also had a 40% negative image, the survey showed.

  • Friday, September 20th 2024 - 23:00 UTC

    Haitian gov't announces security measures for merchant ships sailing to and from Port-au-Prince

    Conille's government is faced with shipping companies threatening to halt operations in the country as gangs favor smuggling to formal foreign trade

    Haitian authorities have announced that merchant ships will be escorted then entering a leaving Port-au-Prince given the mounting insecurity in the Caribbean country. Interim Prime Minister Garry Conille made this decision after four ships left to avoid gang violence.

  • Friday, September 20th 2024 - 10:27 UTC

    Brazil evaluating return to summer daylight saving time

    Silveira said there was no energy risk in 2024 but it was necessary to think with an eye on 2025 and 2026

    Brazil's National Electric System Operator (ONS) suggested the federal government implement a summer daylight saving time scheme as part of its contingency plan, Agencia Brasil reported Thursday. The measure is now under evaluation with a decision due in the coming days, according to Energy Minister Alexandre Silveira, who also explained that even if adopted, it may not necessarily last the whole summer.

  • Friday, September 20th 2024 - 10:06 UTC

    Water deficit places Ecuador under “red alert”

    Some 77,000 troops were deployed to protect Ecuador's key sites during nighttime blackouts

    A red alert has been declared in several parts of Ecuador hit by an unprecedented drought that resulted among other things in mass power cuts in a country already hit by spreading forest fires.

  • Friday, September 20th 2024 - 09:34 UTC

    Unemployment keeps growing in Argentina

    Consumption was also reported to have decreased significantly

    According to a report from Argentina's National Institute of Statistics and Census (Indec), unemployment in the South American country reached 7.6 % in the second quarter of 2024. The figures were consistent with the 7.7% recorded in the previous trimester but represented a sharp interannual deterioration from the 6.2% during the same period of 2023.

  • Friday, September 20th 2024 - 09:04 UTC

    Argentine woman in England killed by her son

    Juliana had moved to England at the age of 20

    A 48-year-old Mar del Plata-born woman living in England was shot dead at her Luton home. The perpetrator appears to have been her 18-year-old son who would have also killed his two siblings. The suspect, named Nicholas Prosper, has been placed in custody. At the time of his detention some 600 meters from the crime scene he was still in possession of the gun used to assassinate Juliana Falcón, her son Kyle (16), and her daughter Giselle (13).

  • Friday, September 20th 2024 - 08:02 UTC

    Falklands, confirmed case of avian influenza in Surf Bay, close to Stanley

    Since 30 October 2023, 113 suspect birds/animals have been reported, 72 sets of swabs have been taken. Nineteen have returned positive results and 53 negative results

    The Falkland Islands Director of Natural Resources has released the following, “On Monday 16 September 2024 swabs that were taken from a dead Gentoo penguin on Surf Bay were tested and returned positive for HPAI. Given that this is an isolated case of one single bird, that is more than 1km from poultry or a colony, a level 1 response will be followed and a full protection zone will not be declared.”