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Montevideo, December 21st 2025 - 06:25 UTC

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  • Tuesday, November 18th 2025 - 20:11 UTC

    Caricom delegation touring UK to discuss slavery reparations

    “The global movement for reparations is entering a new wave of impact,” Beckles argued

    A delegation from the Caribbean Community (Caricom) is visiting the United Kingdom this week to engage in discussions regarding their history of slavery and the contentious issue of reparations.

  • Tuesday, November 18th 2025 - 04:18 UTC

    What Predictive Models Mean For Hospitality

    Front-of-house teams live by feel, yet the best service now also runs on quiet math. Hotels, venues, and entertainment platforms are using lightweight forecasting to pace staff, stock the right items, and shape guest journeys in real time.

  • Saturday, November 15th 2025 - 10:41 UTC

    Uruguayan cows stranded off Türkiye due to certification issues

    The incident is a commercial dispute, not a diplomatic conflict, but many cows have died in the meantime

    Nearly 3,000 head of cattle exported from Uruguay are stranded aboard a cargo ship off the coast of Türkiye, unable to unload their cargo due to irregularities in their health and commercial certifications, according to Turkish authorities.

  • Saturday, November 15th 2025 - 10:32 UTC

    Dominican Republic boosts border security as cholera resurges in Haiti

    Cholera was declared eliminated in Haiti in February 2022, but new infections re-emerged months later

    Authorities in the Dominican Republic have upped all border security measures after Haiti's Ministry of Public Health and Population (MSPP), backed by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) and other international agencies, admitted to the spreading of a cholera outbreak, it was reported in the Caribbean island of Hispaniola on Friday.

  • Friday, November 14th 2025 - 20:58 UTC

    Mining company accountable for dam collapse in Brazil

    The collapse of the Fundão Dam killed 19 people

    The High Court of Justice in London found on Friday that the English mining company BHP was accountable for the collapse of the Fundão Dam in the city of Mariana, in the Brazilian State of Minas Gerais, ten years ago. The company is a shareholder of Samarco, which was responsible for the disaster.

  • Thursday, November 13th 2025 - 10:43 UTC

    Italy: Prosecutors launch probe into “human safari” allegations

    Brigida has investigated Argentina's “death flights” among other internationally relevant cases. Photo: AFP

    The Milan Public Prosecutor's Office has launched an investigation into claims that wealthy Italian citizens paid fees to act as “weekend snipers,” targeting and shooting civilians besieged in Sarajevo during the Bosnian War (1992-1996). The investigation has been bolstered by testimony from former Bosnian Army Brigadier General -and intelligence agent- Edin Subasic.

  • Thursday, November 13th 2025 - 10:00 UTC

    California Governor becomes most famous US COP30 attendee

    Newsom is already hailed as a potential presidential candidate

    California Governor Gavin Newsom has emerged as an unexpected focal point and “anti-Trump” figure at the COP30 climate conference in Belém, capitalizing on the absence of the self-proclaimed climate change skeptic US President Donald Trump.

  • Wednesday, November 12th 2025 - 10:07 UTC

    USS Gerald Ford in the Caribbean sparks Venezuelan military mobilization

    The USS Gerald Ford was deployed from the Mediterranean to the Caribbean to up the ante against alleged drug traffickers in the area

    The USS Gerald Ford, the world's largest aircraft carrier, arrived in the Caribbean Sea on Tuesday, reinforcing the US military presence in Latin America for what the Pentagon claims is an operation to combat drug trafficking.

  • Wednesday, November 12th 2025 - 09:59 UTC

    Incidents reported outside COP30 hosting site

    At least one security guard was injured

    Demonstrators clashed with law enforcement on Tuesday in Belém outside the so-called Blue Zone, where COP30 negotiations are taking place. The area was closed after a group of protesters tried to enter the site, but were kept at bay by security guards forming human chains. At least one guard was injured.

  • Wednesday, November 12th 2025 - 09:36 UTC

    China and Uruguay launch joint agri-science cooperation project

    Carámbula underscored that the joint laboratory “strengthens the country's science, technology, and innovation”

    Scientific and educational institutions from China and Uruguay have signed a memorandum of understanding to establish a groundbreaking Joint Pasture Agriculture Laboratory, aiming to strengthen scientific and technological cooperation in agricultural innovation under China's Belt and Road Initiative.