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Montevideo, January 10th 2025 - 21:00 UTC

International

  • Tuesday, December 12th 2023 - 10:09 UTC

    Milei wants to appoint his rabbi friend as next ambassador to Israel

    Milei first contacted Rabbi Wahnish in 2021 when he was said to be a nazi

    Argentine President Javier Milei confirmed he intentds to appoint Rabbi Axel Wahnish as the South American country's next ambassador to Israel in addition to moving the mission from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, it was reported in Buenos Aires.

  • Tuesday, December 12th 2023 - 09:03 UTC

    Chinese economy slower trend impacting the Brazilian beef market

    A ton of beef sold to China last year averaged US$ 5,020 while this November the ton price was down to US$ 3.910

    The impact of a slower Chinese economy has started to be felt in Brazilian exports of proteins, mainly beef with considerable lower prices. Last November and ahead of the stock storing in China for the coming New Year celebrations next February, Brazilian sales increased 47% and reached 256.000 tons compared to 173.000 in 2022, but the overall revenue only grew from 872,4 million of one billion.

  • Monday, December 11th 2023 - 14:54 UTC

    FAB aircraft carrying 48 evacuees from Gaza lands in Brasilia

    A group of 24, mostly men, was banned from leaving

    A Brazilian Air Force Airbus KC-30 (the military version of the A330-200) aircraft landed in Brasilia at 3.47 am Monday after a 15-hour flight from Cairo carrying 48 refugees who had fled the war-torn Gaza Strip, Agencia Brasil reported.

  • Monday, December 11th 2023 - 10:23 UTC

    Zelensky becomes star guest at Milei's inauguration

    I sincerely wish Argentina good decisions and steady growth, Zelensky said on social media

    Among the foreign leaders to attend Javier Milei's inauguration in Buenos Aires, there were two who stood out from the rest. Topping the list was Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky, who is highly dependent on assistance from abroad to fight off Russia's invasion, and the other was Jair Bolsonaro, who despite no longer being President of Brazil, was given a preferential treatment by Argentina's incoming government.

  • Monday, December 11th 2023 - 09:42 UTC

    Argentina to reapply for OECD membership

    The process could take years, Mondino said

    Argentina's new Foreign Minister Diana Mondino confirmed that her country would resume the process of joining the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which had been initiated under President Mauricio Macri (2015-2019) but was dropped during the Alberto Fernández years (2019-2023).

  • Sunday, December 10th 2023 - 11:13 UTC

    Milei's colorful list of guests to his taking office ceremony

    Foreign minister for the Americas David Rutley will attend the taking office ceremony of president Milei

    It's a great day for Javier Milei, the libertarian who in just two years from scratch managed to defeat the main dominant political forces in Argentina and will become this Sunday the country's elected president.

  • Saturday, December 9th 2023 - 10:37 UTC

    Uruguayan Navy delegation off to South Korea to bring home patrol boat

    Only 52 Chamsuri class boats remain active worldwide to this day

    A 7-member team of the Uruguayan Navy has been dispatched to South Korea to take delivery of a Chamsuri-class patrol boat donated to the South American country, it was reported in Montevideo. The unit is due in the River Plate by early 2024, aboard a specialized transport vessel, it was explained.

  • Saturday, December 9th 2023 - 10:26 UTC

    Essequibo: Guyanese president hopes Maduro will not act recklessly

    Ali hopes... but Maduro is said to be planning a trip to Russia. To get military help from Putin?

    Guyanese President Irfaan Ali said that Venezuela's latest actions regarding the dispute over the Guaiana Essequiba were “a regional threat” and hoped Nicolás Maduro's regime would not act “in an adventurous and very irresponsible manner.”

  • Saturday, December 9th 2023 - 09:57 UTC

    Moody's downgrades China's debt; Beijing insists “unnecessary to worry”

    Moody's is concerned with China's economic slowdown and property crisis. The days of double digit growth are over and the declining trend according to IMF could reach 3,5% in a couple of years.

    Credit risk agency Moody's is warning about growing problems with the Chinese economy, and has cut its outlook on government-s debt to negative from stable. China has become the world's second largest economy and the main trading partner, among others of South American countries.

  • Friday, December 8th 2023 - 09:43 UTC

    Paraguay takes over rotating presidency of Mercosur; FTA with Singapore announced

    “I invite you to dream big together,” Peña told his fellow Presidents

    “There is no Mercosur where only some people do well,” said Paraguayan President Santiago Peña on taking up his new role within the bloc, which in his view is bound for “great achievements.” Peña underlined that, globally, Mercosur faced four challenges: access to water, food security, energy sufficiency, and resilience in logistics chains.