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Montevideo, February 24th 2025 - 00:42 UTC

Stories for January 24th 2025

  • Friday, January 24th 2025 - 22:39 UTC

    Trump orders all files regarding JFK, RFK, and MLK murders disclosed

    Trump's executive order rendering children of illegal aliens ineligible for US citizenship is “blatantly unconstitutional,” Seattle Federal Judge John Coughenour said

    US President Donald Trump's executive order issuing spree during his first week in office included the declassification in the interest of transparency of all documents pertaining to the murders of then-President John F. Kennedy (JFK) in 1962, as well as those of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, Sr. (RFK) and civil rights leader and Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) in 1968.

  • Friday, January 24th 2025 - 21:10 UTC

    Giant iceberg approaching South Georgia stirs fears

    A23a was confirmed to be intact and 173 miles from South Georgia

    A23a, arguably the world’s largest and oldest iceberg which has been wandering through the South Atlantic and headed for the British Overseas Territory of the South Georgia Islands since last month, has been reported not to have changed course this week nor upped nor melted, thus posing a serious threat to the local fauna. Earlier this week, it was spotted 173 miles (280km) away.

  • Friday, January 24th 2025 - 10:42 UTC

    Lula and Scheinbaum discuss regional matters over the phone

    Lula invited Sheinbaum over to Brazil to further boost the excellent ties between the two countries

    Progressive Presidents Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil and Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico discussed Thursday during a telephone conversation the relevance of cultivating “productive relations” with the United States, now once again under the Republican Donald Trump.

  • Friday, January 24th 2025 - 10:30 UTC

    Trump reviews his four days in office during WEF speech

    The new Government achieved in less than four days more than other administrations have accomplished in four years, Trump also pointed out

    US President Donald Trump suggested four days into his second term in office that companies should manufacture their products at home or face import tariffs. During a video appearance at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos (Switzerland), the Republican leader insisted his constituency had entrusted him to bring about change and thence his carrot-and-stick approach to private investment.

  • Friday, January 24th 2025 - 06:43 UTC

    Falklands, New Director of Policy, Economy and Corporate Services

    Maeve currently holds the role of Head of Policy and has worked for FIG since 2015, having arrived originally to work as FIG’s Statistician

    The Falkland Islands Government (FIG) is pleased to announce the appointment of Maeve Daly-Llamosa as the new Director of Policy, Economy and Corporate Services.