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Montevideo, July 4th 2025 - 03:07 UTC

Stories for May 2025

  • Monday, May 26th 2025 - 10:55 UTC

    Lower oil prices ahead, as OPEC+ targets removing US shale oil from global markets

    OPEC’s share of global oil supply had fallen over the last couple of decades from over 50% before the shale revolution to 40% a decade ago and “just” 25% this year.

    OPEC+ are expected to announce another bigger than initially planned production hike at its next meeting, 9/10 July, allegedly with the purpose of having Iraq and Kazakhstan comply with their quotas, but according to a Reuter’s report the target is to knock out the US shale production.

  • Monday, May 26th 2025 - 10:52 UTC

    South Georgia launching the Biosecurity Dog Program to check on rodents

    Dogs sniffing cargoes on vessels in the Falklands

    Some seven years ago this month, the island of South Georgia was declared free or rodents, rats and mice, becoming the world’s biggest and successful project to eradicate the dangerous, destructive invasive species. For nearly 250 years rodents had devastated the island’s wildlife.

  • Monday, May 26th 2025 - 10:50 UTC

    Milei skips greeting VP and BA Mayor

    The last time Milei and Villarruel had been seen together was on March 1 for the opening of the 2025 Legislature

    Argentine President Javier Milei publicly justified his refusal to greet Vice President Victoria Villarruel and Buenos Aires Mayor Jorge Macri during a Tedeum ceremony at the Metropolitan Cathedral marking the May 25 celebrations, citing betrayal and criticizing their associations. “Rome does not pay traitors,” Milei posted on X.

  • Monday, May 26th 2025 - 10:44 UTC

    King Charles in Canada will open Parliament with the “Speech from the throne”

    King Charles is expected to include in his speech to Parliament a defense of Canada's sovereignty and to reject claims it should be taken over by the US.

    King Charles will read the “Speech from the Throne” to Canada's Parliament on Tuesday, the first time a monarch has delivered this for almost fifty years. It is expected to include a defense of Canada's sovereignty and to reject claims it should be taken over by the US.

  • Monday, May 26th 2025 - 10:41 UTC

    No fatalities reported as tornado hits southern Chile

    President Boric confirmed that 8 people were injured

    An EF-1 tornado with winds between 138 and 187 km/h Sunday struck Puerto Varas in southern Chile, about 1,000 km south of Santiago, injuring eight people, none critically, and damaging approximately 150–250 homes, with significant impact on roofs, trees, power poles, and vehicles.

  • Monday, May 26th 2025 - 10:32 UTC

    Chavista candidate voted Governor of Essequibo amid poor turnout

    Neil Jesús Villamizar Sánchez was elected as the first governor of Guayana Essequiba

    Venezuela Sunday held regional and legislative elections with a voter turnout of 42.63%. The ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), led by Nicolás Maduro, secured 23 out of 24 governorships, including the newly claimed 160,000 square-kilometer oil-rich Guayana Essequiba, and an 82.68% share of votes for the National Assembly, projecting an absolute legislative majority. The opposition won only the Cojedes governorship. Henrique Capriles secured a legislative seat for the opposition.

  • Monday, May 26th 2025 - 10:20 UTC

    Argentine Navy Falklands War sloop sank as practice target

    Eight crewmembers of the ARA Sobral died in combat on May 2, 1982

    The Argentine Navy's sloop ARA Alférez Sobral, of the 1982 War action, was sunk as a firing practice target off the coast near Necochea due to insufficient funds for maintenance. Departing from Mar del Plata Naval Base, the ship, originally the USS Salish from World War II and later named after Argentine explorer José María Sobral, was towed to its final resting place at coordinates 39°54'S, 59°30'W.

  • Monday, May 26th 2025 - 10:15 UTC

    Germany, compulsory military service considered to boost armed forces numbers

    The initial plan to boost numbers will rely on volunteers, but minister Pistorius warned that it could change if numbers remain insufficient.

    The German Conservative leader recently appointed to head a grand coalition, Friedrich Merz in one of his first statements said that “the key message to Donald Trump is Germany is back on track” <br />
    And so it seems since Berlin is considering bringing back military conscription from next year unless more volunteers sign up for the armed forces, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius has said.

  • Monday, May 26th 2025 - 10:04 UTC

    Paraguay seeks to become logistics hub for South America

    “We want to extend logistics beyond Asunción,” Maluff explained

    Paraguay last week launched the upcoming Expo Logistics 2025 to be held on June 11 and 12 at the South American Football Confederation facilities in Luque. At the event, the South American country will be positioning itself as a regional hub by leveraging its strategic location and enhancing its transportation infrastructure, Vice Minister of Trade and Services Rodrigo Maluff said while announcing initiatives to modernize the Paraguay-Paraná waterway to connect trade from Bolivia and Brazil’s Mato Grosso regions, reducing cargo transfer times to markets like Southeast Asia by up to 40%.

  • Monday, May 26th 2025 - 10:00 UTC

    Charles III congratulates Milei on May 25 holiday

    The United Kingdom was proud to be one of the first nations to recognize Argentina's independence in 1825, Charles III highlighted

    King Charles III Sunday congratulated Argentine President Javier Milei on another anniversary of the May 25, 1810 Revolution that paved the road to self-government and eventually independence from Spain in 1816. The British Embassy in Buenos Aires published the following statement by the monarch in Spanish: