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Montevideo, February 3rd 2025 - 19:52 UTC

Stories for January 2025

  • Tuesday, January 21st 2025 - 09:25 UTC

    Brazilian authorities to encourage use of DIY HIV tests

    A positive outcome is not a conclusive diagnosis and further testing is required, it was explained

    Brazilian agencies encouraged manufacturers to pack their do-it-yourself HIV self-test kits more discreetly to encourage people to use them at home and avoid crowding healthcare facilities, Agencia Brasil reported.

  • Monday, January 20th 2025 - 21:53 UTC

    Biden issues last-minute pardons to those who feared revenge under Trump

    Biden set the presidential record for most individual pardons and commutations issued, including his son Hunter

    Outgoing US President Joseph Biden used his final hours in office to issue a preemptive blanket pardon favoring members of his family, Gen. Mark Milley, Dr. Anthony Fauci, and Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney, who cochaired with the Democratic Bennie Thompson the Congressional Committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol Hill riots. The body eventually produced a report that said Trump had engaged in a “multi-part conspiracy” to overturn the legitimate results of the 2020 presidential election. Cheney even announced he would vote for Kamala Harris in last year's elections.

  • Monday, January 20th 2025 - 08:10 UTC

    Trump making triumphant comeback to the White House

    Trump is expected to sign about 100 executive orders on his first day back in office

    Four years after disappearing behind the scenes amid growing discontent and suspicions about loyalties and vote counts, Donald Trump returns to the White House on Monday with a new vice president (J.D. Vance), new energy, and the galvanization that legal proceedings and assassination attempts leave in a political leader.

  • Monday, January 20th 2025 - 07:40 UTC

    Argentine gov't pledges to find those responsible for Prosecutor Nisman's murder

    Nisman wound up dead with a bullet in his head just hours before coming forward in Congress with his findings about the 1994 AMIA bombing

    Argentine President Javier Milei said that Special Prosecutor Alberto Nisman was murdered “at the hands of the darkest powers” in the country. Nisman was found dead on Jan. 18, 2015, in his apartment with a bullet in his head just hours before appearing before a Congressional committee to explain his findings regarding the so-called Memorandum of Understanding with Iran.

  • Monday, January 20th 2025 - 07:12 UTC

    Milei holds positive meeting with Georgieva

    “We are doing very well,” Milei posted on social media after his encounter with the IMF's Managing Director

    Argentine President Javier Milei and International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva held a meeting Sunday in Washington DC ahead of Donald Trump's inauguration to discuss the economic situation in the South American country.

  • Monday, January 20th 2025 - 06:30 UTC

    Peña tells González Urrutia about Paraguay's support for democracy in Venezuela

    Peña and González Urrutia (L) are in Washington DC to attend Donald Trump's inauguration

    Paraguayan President Santiago Peña met Sunday in Washington DC with Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia, whom many believed should have been sworn in on Jan. 10 last after winning the controversial July 28, 2024, elections where the incumbent Nicolás Maduro claimed to have prevailed despite producing no evidence thereto besides declarations from offices controlled by the Chavista regime.

  • Monday, January 20th 2025 - 06:22 UTC

    Evo says Bolivian gov't advised doctors against treating him

    Morales claimed Judge Rocabado overstepped his powers by issuing an arrest warrant despite his medical condition

    Former Bolivian President Evo Morales hosted his weekly broadcast show from home Sunday and insisted he was banned from seeking proper medical help for his condition. Last week, an arrest warrant was issued against him for contempt of court after he dodged two subpoenas citing health issues.

  • Monday, January 20th 2025 - 06:08 UTC

    Falklands, ESPN films a documentary on the local football culture

    The football match between Stanley and BFSAI, played for the filming despite the wind (Pic Cpl Cann and Flt Lt Youngs)

    The US international basic cable sports channel, ESPN, Entertainment and Sports Programming Network was in the Falkland Islands with a crew to gather information on the local football culture. British Forces South Atlantic Islands, BFSAI, and Falklands Football worked with the Walt Disney channel, ESPN

  • Monday, January 20th 2025 - 05:56 UTC

    Shock-Proofing the UK Economy

    In UK the ten-year government bond yields rose faster than yields in the US and, by a much larger margin, to those in the Eurozone.

    By Mohamed A. El-Erian (*) - No country wants external developments to drive up its borrowing costs and weaken its currency, which is what the UK is facing today, together with serious cyclical and structural challenges. But if the British government responds appropriately, recent market volatility might turn out to have a silver lining.

  • Monday, January 20th 2025 - 05:38 UTC

    Royal Navy paid tribute to its Chilean counterpart bravery and expertise

    Baroness Chapman, “in UK we’ve all heard of Ernest Shackleton, but not enough people know about what Luis Pardo did. He’s a real hero. Many others would never have been so brave.”

    The Royal Navy paid homage to the bravery and expertise of its Chilean counterpart during a ceremony in Punta Arenas. The commander of the ship which rescued sailors from Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance has been recognized by the UK during icebreaker HMS Protector’s port stop in Chile.