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Montevideo, November 1st 2025 - 23:27 UTC

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  • Wednesday, October 9th 2024 - 21:00 UTC

    Brazilian nun chosen for UNHCR award

    A graduate lawyer, Sister Rosita has also been instrumental in shaping Brazilian public policy

    Sister Rosita Milesi, a Brazilian nun, lawyer, social worker, and movement builder who has championed the rights and dignity of displaced people for nearly 40 years, has been granted the UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award, the United Nations announced in Geneva Wednesday. Besides Milesi, four other women were named regional winners.

  • Wednesday, October 9th 2024 - 13:13 UTC

    Proteins show the way for 2024 Nobel Chemistry Prize winners

    Proteins control and regulate all chemical reactions in the body's cells. Hence the importance of the two works recognized through Wednesday's awards

    Sweden's Royal Academy of Science announced Wednesday that researchers David Baker, Demis Hassabis, and John M. Jumper had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their studies regarding proteins.

  • Wednesday, October 9th 2024 - 08:23 UTC

    Bluetongue restriction zone in the UK widened

    The virus is spread by the bites of midges that are often blown over from the continent during spells of warm weather.

    The UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said it had extended the regional bluetongue restriction zone after two cases of the disease were reported along the Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire border. This means following restrictions on moving animals.

  • Wednesday, October 9th 2024 - 00:58 UTC

    Key trends shaping the iGaming landscape in South America

    Sports events have always enjoyed a lot of popularity in South America

    In the past few decades, online casinos have grown in popularity all over different continents, and South America is no exception to this rule. As per platforms like Statista, we can see that the revenue reached by this sector is expected to get to $8.71 billion by 2029. However, to understand what is behind this growth, let’s dive deeper into the current state of online casinos and the key trends below.

  • Tuesday, October 8th 2024 - 13:33 UTC

    Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to artificial intelligence pioneers

    The two laureates “used fundamental concepts from statistical physics to design artificial neural networks that function as associative memories and find patterns in large data sets,” it was explained

    Sweden's Royal Academy of Sciences announced Tuesday that it was granting the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton for their “discoveries and inventions in artificial intelligence” and “machine learning with artificial neural networks.” The distinction also represented a € 970,000 cheque.

  • Tuesday, October 8th 2024 - 10:03 UTC

    Argentine VP meets with Spanish Senate Speaker in Madrid

    Villarruel and the conservative Rollán talked for over an hour

    Argentine Vice President Victoria Villarruel met Monday in Madrid with her Senate Speaker colleague Pedro Rollán on the opening day of her first trip abroad since her inauguration last year.

  • Tuesday, October 8th 2024 - 09:32 UTC

    Uruguayan gov't says Israel entitled to self-defense

    “It is essential to seek diplomatic solutions,” Paganini underlined

    Uruguayan Foreign Ministry Omar Paganini Monday underlined Israel's right to self-defense on the first anniversary of the Hamas raids in which over 1,000 people were killed and over 200 taken hostage to the Gaza Strip, thus triggering Tel Aviv's full-scale military response. Montevideo's top diplomat also expressed his concern given the number of civilian casualties and forced displacements while urging all parties to de-escalate the conflict.

  • Monday, October 7th 2024 - 12:05 UTC

    2024 Medicine Nobel Prize goes to team of US researchers

    ”Ambros and Ruvkun's seminal discovery in the tiny worm C. elegans was unexpected and revealed a new dimension of gene regulation

    US researchers Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun were awarded the 2024 Medicine Nobel Prize for their findings in post-transcriptional gene regulation (microRNA) which have proven “to be of fundamental importance in how organisms develop and function,” it was announced Monday in Stockholm while launching the start of Nobel Prize Week. They were granted some € 970,000 for their contribution to science.

  • Monday, October 7th 2024 - 10:20 UTC

    Brazilian Air Force flight from Lebanon lands in São Paulo

    The aircraft was to take off back to Beirut with a new crew to bring donations and airlift back the second batch of evacuees

    A Brazilian Air Force (FAB) aircraft landed at the São Paulo Air Base in Guarulhos at 10.25 am on Sunday carrying 229 Brazilian nationals who had been evacuated from war-torn Lebanon, in addition to 3 pets, Agencia Brasil reported.

  • Monday, October 7th 2024 - 09:24 UTC

    Falklands MPA toured by MoD Director of Overseas Bases

    Watching a Typhoon fighter next to infantry defenses (Pic BFSAI)

    During a five-day visit, the UK Ministry of Defense Director Overseas Bases, Dr Sam Griffiths, toured the force elements deployed in the BFSAI (British Forces South Atlantic Islands) area of operations and gained an insight to the joint force operation at the Mount Pleasant Complex, MPC.