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Montevideo, February 5th 2025 - 06:45 UTC

Stories for 2025

  • Wednesday, January 22nd 2025 - 09:07 UTC

    Argentina: Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo find Granddaughter Nº139

    Carlotto highlighted the importance of the collective struggle to find the children of those abducted by the dictatorship who are still listed as “missing”

    The human rights organization Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo announced Tuesday in Buenos Aires the finding of “Granddaughter Nº139.” The entity seeks to determine the true identity of children born in captivity from prisoners who were later declared as “disappeared” by the military dictatorship, their offspring handed over for adoption to families ideologically compatible with the far-right de facto regime.

  • Wednesday, January 22nd 2025 - 08:15 UTC

    Colombian company signs partnership with Bolivia's YPFB

    Signing the documents were YPFB's president Armin Dorgathen and Canacol's representative in Bolivia Luis Alberto Pérez

    Bolivia's state-run oil company signed Tuesday a series of agreements with Colombia's Canacol representing an investment of up to US$ 270 million for hydrocarbon exploration and exploitation undertakings in the Ovai, Florida Este, Arenales, and Tita-Techi areas, all of them in the department of Santa Cruz.

  • Wednesday, January 22nd 2025 - 07:36 UTC

    WHO wishes US would reconsider pulling out

    “The United States was a founding member of WHO in 1948,” the UN agency recalled

    After US President announced he was pulling his country once again from the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations (UN) agency issued a statement Tuesday wishing such a decision would be reconsidered. Trump had already left the WHO during his first term in office but his decision was reversed by his successor (and now predecessor) Joseph Biden.

  • Tuesday, January 21st 2025 - 21:45 UTC

    Italian teenager toys with Mediterranean merchant ship traffic just for fun

    Despite the legal consequences he may now face, the Italian teenager is likely to end up hired by a cybersecurity company

    A 15-year-old lad from Cesena, Italy, toyed with merchant ship routes in the Mediterranean after accessing the navigation systems just for fun. Although no material damage was reported, a criminal case has been opened against the teenager, whose parents claimed to be unaware of those activities.

  • Tuesday, January 21st 2025 - 19:57 UTC

    Trump exits Paris Agreement and WHO, pardons Jan. 6 rioters

    Trump had a busy first day back at his old job

    In his first hours in office, US President Donald Trump signed a barrage of Executive Orders reshaping the entire geopolitical scenario worldwide.

  • Tuesday, January 21st 2025 - 15:32 UTC

    Falklands, RAF Commander visits the Air Mobility Force at MPC

    The Air Mobility Force has an Atlas, Voyager, and support functions deployed to provide Aeromedical Evacuation, Air-to-Air Refueling, Search and Rescue, plus Fisheries Protection

    Royal Air Force Commander Air Wing, Gp Capt Andy McIntyre, recently undertook the 8000 mile journey to visit Mount Pleasant Complex, at British Falkland South Atlantic Islands.

  • Tuesday, January 21st 2025 - 15:25 UTC

    Falklands, New step towards protection for domestic abuse victims

    The orders can impose prohibitions, such as barring an abuser from contacting or approaching the victim

    The Falkland Islands is due to take a significant step forward in safeguarding its residents by enacting the Domestic Abuse (Civil and Family Proceedings) Ordinance, which comes into effect on 3rd February.

  • Tuesday, January 21st 2025 - 10:59 UTC

    Trump signals beginning of US Golden Era under him

    From now on “we will measure our success not only by the battles we win, but also by the wars that we end, and perhaps most importantly, the wars we never get into,” Trump insisted

    Donald Trump announced that January 20, 2025, marked the beginning of the United States' Golden Era because during his new term in office great achievements lay ahead, such as the US flag flying on Mars together with energy independence, immigration reforms to tackle the inflow of illegal aliens, as well as the end of woke ideas whereby -for example- there are other genders beyond male and female.

  • Tuesday, January 21st 2025 - 10:45 UTC

    Argentina records foreign trade surplus in 2024

    An Indec report showed that achievement for the first time in two decades

    Argentina posted last year its highest nominal trade surplus in two decades, according to a National Institute of Statistics and Census (Indec) report released Monday in Buenos Aires. The document showed a US$ 18.9 billion positive outcome which contrasted with the US$ 6.925 billion deficit the year before.

  • Tuesday, January 21st 2025 - 09:39 UTC

    Colombia's Foreign Minister resigns

    Murillo is believed to have electoral plans of his own

    Luis Gilberto Murillo has turned in his resignation as Colombia's Foreign Minister, presumably to pursue an electoral position, it was reported Monday in Bogotá. According to local media, Murillo might be running for president next year. His successor effective Feb. 1 will be President Gustavo Petro's Friday woman and lawyer Laura Sarabia. Also resigning Monday was Transport Minister María Constanza García.