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Montevideo, June 17th 2026 - 11:51 UTC

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  • Saturday, June 8th 2019 - 07:40 UTC

    Theresa May becomes acting PM; Tories'round of secret ballots to chose successor

    Mrs. May, who quietly tendered her resignation in a private letter to the party, will remain prime minister until a new leader is chosen, likely in late July

    Prime Minister Theresa May stepped down as leader of Britain's governing Conservative Party on Friday, formally triggering the race for a successor who will try where she failed to deliver Brexit. May, who quietly tendered her resignation in a private letter to the party, will remain prime minister until a new leader is chosen, likely in late July, but leaves Britain's tortuous departure from the European Union stalled.

  • Saturday, June 8th 2019 - 07:38 UTC

    NASA goes into space tourism: US$ 58m for a round trip and US$ 35.000 a night

    “NASA is opening the International Space Station to commercial opportunities and marketing these opportunities as we've never done before,” NASA announced

    NASA said on Friday it will open up the International Space Station to business ventures including space tourism as it seeks to financially disengage from the orbiting research lab. Price tag? Tens of millions of dollars for a round trip ticket and US$35,000 a night.

  • Friday, June 7th 2019 - 09:59 UTC

    Bolsonaro and Macri announce the EU/Mercosur trade deal is “imminent”

    “The signing of the Mercosur-EU accord is imminent,” said Bolsonaro, who has actively pushed for the free trade agreement since coming to office in January.

    The presidents of Argentina and Brazil said on Thursday that an agreement is imminent on a free trade agreement between the European Union and Mercosur. Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro and Argentina's Mauricio Macri expressed confidence that the deal would soon be signed as they met in Buenos Aires for talks.

  • Friday, June 7th 2019 - 09:58 UTC

    Falklands' delegation in UK meets oil representatives, trade partners, ministers and MPs

    MLAs Barkman and Roberts with Dr Thérèse Coffey, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for the Environment Food and Rural Affairs

    Members of the Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly along with the Chief Executive Barry Rowland visited the UK in mid-May to undertake a number of meetings with the oil industry, trade partners, Government officials, ministers, and parliamentarians.

  • Friday, June 7th 2019 - 09:56 UTC

    South Georgia Marine Protected Area enhancement, announced last December, comes into effect

    The enhanced measures include a large increase in the proportion of the 1.24 million km2 MPA within which all commercial fishing activity is prohibited

    Following an announcement in December 2018, a suite of enhancements to the South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands Marine Protected Area (SGSSI-MPA) have now been signed into legislation by HM Commissioner Nigel Phillips CBE. The enhanced measures are designed to further conserve the rich biodiversity found within the ocean surrounding this sub-Antarctic UK overseas territory. The new measures build on the existing MPA designated in 2012 and are based on scientific evidence considered during the first 5-year review of the MPA.

  • Friday, June 7th 2019 - 09:47 UTC

    Macron and Trump pay tribute to Allied forces who led the invasion of Normandy to end the war

    Macron offered his country’s heartfelt thanks for the sacrifices of allied partners in liberating France

    President Donald Trump travelled to Normandy on Thursday to commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day and pay tribute to American and allied forces who led the invasion of Nazi-occupied France that was the turning point in World War II.

  • Friday, June 7th 2019 - 09:40 UTC

    The first UN World Food Safety Day to be marked on Friday 7 June

    Unsafe food also hinders development in many low- and middle-income economies, which lose around US$ 95 billion in productivity

    The first-ever celebration of the United Nations World Food Safety Day, to be marked globally on 7 June, aims to strengthen efforts to ensure that the food we eat is safe.
Every year, nearly one in ten people in the world (an estimated 600 million people) fall ill and 420,000 die after eating food contaminated by bacteria, viruses, parasites or chemical substances.

  • Friday, June 7th 2019 - 09:37 UTC

    Theresa May steps down; Brexit waiting for the next British Prime Minister

    
May took office after the 2016 referendum vote to leave the EU and has spent the past three years working on the plan, delaying Brexit twice to try to get it through

    British Prime Minister Theresa May steps down as leader of her Conservative Party on Friday, formally triggering the race for a successor who will try where she failed to deliver Brexit. May will remain prime minister until a new leader is chosen, likely in late July, but has relinquished control over the direction of Britain's tortuous departure from the European Union.

  • Friday, June 7th 2019 - 09:06 UTC

    Falklands announces Liberation Day 2019 anniversary program

    At 11.00am a ceremony will be held at the Liberation Monument in front of the Secretariat building

    To mark the Anniversary of the Liberation of the Falkland Islands from Argentinean occupation in 1982, the following program has been arranged for Friday 14 June 2019. A thanksgiving service will be held in Christ Church Cathedral commencing at 9.45am.

  • Thursday, June 6th 2019 - 09:59 UTC

    Lagarde admits underestimating the Argentine economic situation

    “The Argentine economic situation has proved to be incredibly complicated and I dare say that many of those involved, including us, underestimated a bit”

    The International Monetary Fund, IMF, admitted on Wednesday that it had underestimated the “incredibly complicated situation” of the Argentine economy and also that taming inflation had taken much longer than originally expected.