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Montevideo, March 13th 2025 - 20:25 UTC

Stories for 2025

  • Saturday, February 1st 2025 - 10:00 UTC

    Paraguayan President describes importance of trade openness in speech at WTO

    Peña is to stay in Switzerland until Sunday

    Paraguayan President Santiago Peña Friday underlined the importance of trade openness and multilateralism during his speech at the World Trade Organization's (WTO) headquarters in Geneva. Peña highlighted “the importance of global integration to strengthen trade and resilience in the face of uncertainty,” the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MIC) said in a statement.

  • Saturday, February 1st 2025 - 08:16 UTC

    Released British-Israeli soldier discusses plight with PM Starmer

    Damari told Starmer she had been kept at various UNRWA facilities

    Emily Damari, the Israeli soldier who grew up in south-east London and was taken hostage by the terrorist organization Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023, spoke Friday on the telephone with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, whom she told about her ordeal. Upon her release, she made headlines worldwide for having lost two fingers and because her sexual orientation (lesbian) had been kept from public knowledge to avoid further damage from her captors.

  • Saturday, February 1st 2025 - 08:13 UTC

    BAS studies whales and fish to protect South Georgia marine ecosystem

    Humpback whales migrate south to South Georgia. Image: Fredrik Christiansen

    British Antarctic Survey scientists on the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia are working to better understand the rich marine life that inhabits the region. This month teams are focusing on two major projects: one on whales and their consumption of krill (a shrimp-like creature that’s abundant in the Southern Ocean), and another on populations of bottom-dwelling fish. Their findings will help ensure the long-term health of the region’s ocean ecosystem and support sustainable fisheries.

  • Friday, January 31st 2025 - 21:09 UTC

    Trump’s envoy delivers stern warning to Maduro in Caracas as US flag displayed in Miraflores

    Maduro’s press released striking photos showing the U.S. flag prominently displayed at the Miraflores Palace—the seat of the Venezuelan Government

    Richard Grenell, the special envoy appointed by U.S. President Donald Trump, met with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro at the Presidential Miraflores Palace in Caracas on Friday. During the meeting, Grenell conveyed a non-negotiable message from White House official Mauricio Claver-Carone: Maduro must “receive back the Venezuelan criminals that have been sent to the United States.”

  • Friday, January 31st 2025 - 19:09 UTC

    Worst feared as Argentine national goes missing in Brazil

    Federico Bruni's van was found on the banks of the Do Ponche River

    Brazilian Police keep looking for 32-year-old Argentine national Federico Bruni who went missing as he went on a tour in the São Bonifácio jungle. Bruni's pick-up truck and his dog have already been found.

  • Friday, January 31st 2025 - 18:28 UTC

    US special envoy lands in Caracas

    The exact purpose of Grenell's trip is yet to be disclosed but he was meeting with Maduro Friday

    US career diplomat Richard Grenell landed Friday in Caracas presumably to participate in the return of a group of Venezuelan deportees in exchange for US nationals detained by the Bolivarian regime in the South American country. However, neither government has made any agenda public so the full scope of Washington's former Ambassador to Germany is mostly media speculation.

  • Friday, January 31st 2025 - 10:55 UTC

    Bolsonaro ready to be jailed at any time

    Bolsonaro is somehow expecting the Federal Police to ring on his doorbell at 6 am

    Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro told Bloomberg that he was mentally prepared to be incarcerated any time soon, and was somehow expecting Federal Police (PF) officers to pick him up. “I sleep well, but I'm already prepared to hear the doorbell ring at 6 am,” announcing it is the PF. Bolsonaro has already been indicted in the alleged coup plot, the alleged vaccination card fraud, and the Saudi jewels case. In another interview last week, Bolsonaro claimed that the charges did not matter.

  • Friday, January 31st 2025 - 10:35 UTC

    Argentine national among the dead in Potomac River air crash

    The Argentine national's 13-year-old son was, like almost half of the airliner's passengers, involved in figure skating and had attended an event in Kansas

    US authorities announced Thursday that there were no survivors in the mid-air collision between an American Eagle CRJ-700 jetliner and an Army helicopter near Washington DC's Ronald Reagan / National Airport. Among the deceased was an Argentine national and his Chilean son. The airplane was carrying 60 passengers plus a crew of 4 while 3 servicemen were aboard the helicopter.

  • Friday, January 31st 2025 - 09:47 UTC

    Autopart makers Yazaki leaving Uruguay

    Union-sanctioned production stoppages affected the company's reliability to customers, it was explained

    Japanese autopart makers Yazaki announced the closure of its two plants in Uruguay citing rising costs, leaving thousands jobless, it was reported in Montevideo. Some 1,200 workers have been affected by the measure. The plants in Las Piedras and Colonia, which had been operating since 2007, represented 300 and 900 jobs respectively. Yazaki's presence in the region will be shifting to Argentina and Paraguay.

  • Friday, January 31st 2025 - 09:40 UTC

    Dengue epidemic reported in Ecuador

    An increase in circulation of dengue type 3 was deemed the cause for a recent surge in Brazil

    Ecuador's Health Ministry confirmed Thursday that the South American country was going through a dengue epidemic. Surveillance, Prevention, and Epidemiological Control Undersecretary Teresa Aumala made the announcement during a virtual press conference after 2 deaths and over 4,500 cases were recorded.