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Stories for June 21st 2025

  • Saturday, June 21st 2025 - 10:58 UTC

    Flag Day showcases rift between Milei and Vilarruel

    Milei spoke from the polo field in Buenos Aires, citing agenda problems to go to Rosario

    The June 20 National Flag Day commemorating another anniversary of General Manuel Belgrano's passing further showcased the rift between Argentine President Javier Milei and Vice President Victoria Villarruel, who appeared at different celebrations hundreds of kilometers apart.

  • Saturday, June 21st 2025 - 10:57 UTC

    Uruguayan troops returning from Congo on July 3

    Lubetkin returned from the United States on Friday after taks with Guterres and other UN officials

    The Uruguayan Government of President Yamandú Orsi arranged with the United Nations (UN) that the peacekeeping troops from the South American country, numbering between 190 and 200, would be returning from their mission in Congo on July 3, Foreign Minister Mario Lubetkin announced Friday in Montevideo.

  • Saturday, June 21st 2025 - 10:55 UTC

    Tattooing or piercing pets becomes a federal offense in Brazil

    The penalties also apply to tattoo parlors carrying out these practices

    Starting this week, Brazilian animal owners who have their domestic pets tattooed or pierced for aesthetic purposes face between two and five years in prison, in addition to a fine, plus losing custody of the animal. The penalty also applies to anyone allowing this to happen and is aggravated if the animal dies in the process or as a result thereof.

  • Saturday, June 21st 2025 - 10:51 UTC

    CFK sends crowds away from her home and delivers a recorded message

    Milei's is an “unsustainable model,” CFK argued

    Former Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner told her followers Friday in a recorded message from her house arrest in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Constitución that Security Minister Patricia Bullrich was seeking “to provoke chaos” and insisted that Javier Milei's policies could collapse sooner or later.

  • Saturday, June 21st 2025 - 10:47 UTC

    Brazil's intelligence community wants Chief Spy sacked

    The Intelligence Officers' guild seeks to restore the Abin's credibility

    At least 17 civil servants working for the Brazilian Intelligence Agency (Abin) want General Director Luiz Fernando Corrêa dismissed after he was indicted by the Federal Police. In a note released Friday, they summoned their colleagues to convene next Monday to discuss the issue or call for a strike.

  • Saturday, June 21st 2025 - 10:44 UTC

    US Embassy in Paraguay resumes visa appointments

    A US visa is a privilege for those granted one, the Embassy recalled

    The United States' Embassy in Asunción announced Friday the resumption of appointments with applicants seeking a visa. The diplomatic mission also requested that those interested switch their social media account configurations to “public” for deeper vetting.

  • Saturday, June 21st 2025 - 10:41 UTC

    Brazil anticipating evacuation from Israel

    The Brazilian Air Force said it was ready and waiting for the green light

    Brazil's diplomatic mission in Israel is beginning to record nationals of the South American country who might sign up for an evacuation flight once Tel Aviv authorizes such an operation amid the escalating war with Iran, it was reported Friday. The Brazilian Air Force has been reported to be ready and expecting the green light.