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Montevideo, December 30th 2025 - 00:15 UTC

International

  • Monday, December 18th 2017 - 06:56 UTC

    Theresa May and cabinet to discuss UK's future relationship with the EU

    Mrs. May will tell MPs that the guidelines point to the “shared desire of the EU and the UK to make rapid progress on an implementation period”.

    Theresa May is due to meet her “Brexit cabinet” - about a dozen of her most senior ministers - to discuss for the first time what the UK's future relationship with the EU should be. The PM will later tell MPs the UK wants to sign trade deals during what she calls an implementation period.

  • Saturday, December 16th 2017 - 17:19 UTC

    Hondurans take to the streets to demand proclamation of opposition leader as president

    Soldiers forced some demonstrators off the streets in Tegucigalpa, sparking accusations that the army was violating citizens’ right to stage protests

    Honduran protesters blocked roads and burned tires to press the authorities to cancel the election victory of incumbent President Juan Orlando Hernandez and to proclaim opposition leader Salvador Nasralla the winner.

  • Saturday, December 16th 2017 - 17:18 UTC

    Argentina sacks the head of the Navy, first disciplinary action since the loss of ARA San Juan

    Admiral Marcelo Srur was the first known disciplinary action taken by President o Macri’s administration since contact was lost with the ARA San Juan on Nov 15

    Argentina fired the head of its navy a month after a submarine disappeared in the South Atlantic with 44 crew members onboard, a government spokesman said on Saturday. Local paper La Nacion had reported earlier, citing anonymous sources, that Navy Admiral Marcelo Eduardo Hipolito Srur was let go by the defense minister.

  • Saturday, December 16th 2017 - 16:53 UTC

    Fallout from Odebrecht: Peruvian congress initiates proceedings to impeach president Kuczynski

    “I’m not running and I’m not hiding because I have no reason to,” Kuczynski said, vowing to produce his personal bank records for public scrutiny.

    Lawmakers in Peru initiated proceedings to impeach President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, who refuses to resign after being accused of failing to disclose decade-old payments from a Brazilian company embroiled in Latin America’s biggest corruption scandal. In a brief session, 27 of 130 members of congress put forward a request to consider removing the former Wall Street banker for “permanent moral incapacity”. Lawmakers could summon Kuczynski to defend himself before congress as early as next week.

  • Saturday, December 16th 2017 - 16:29 UTC

    A disenchanted Chile will elect the least unpopular of two candidates on Sunday

    Billionaire and conservative Sebastian Piñera once looked set to easily win Chile’s presidential runoff and swing the country back to the right.

    Chile faces on Sunday one of the elections with most uncertain result. Longstanding disenchantment with the center left leaning coalition that has ruled Chile since the return of democracy in 1990, and a Latin American natural reaction which erupts every now and then when an economy stalls and the blame goes to the local elite in combination with outside “treachery capitalists”, seems to be the scenario.

  • Friday, December 15th 2017 - 10:56 UTC

    Russian wheat for Brazil as Moscow and Brasilia look to increase bilateral trade

    Russian grain traders have been searching for new markets after bumper harvests. Brazil also expects it will help lift a Russian ban on imports of certain meats

    Brazil’s government published a decree laying out procedures importers will have to follow to be able to buy and unload Russian wheat in Brazil, a step aimed at improving trade ties with Moscow. The decree, which takes effect immediately, outlines the documents importers will have to submit to bring Russian wheat to be processed in Brazil, which had not been previously allowed.

  • Friday, December 15th 2017 - 10:45 UTC

    Internet neutrality repealed; legal challenges from consumer advocates announced

    FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburnt, said that Republicans were “handing the keys to the internet” to a “handful of multi-billion-dollar corporations”.

    The US Federal Communications Commission has voted to repeal sweeping 2015 net neutrality rules, in a move that gives internet service providers a free hand to slow or block websites and apps as they see fit, or charge more for faster speeds. The approval of FCC chairman Ajit Pai's proposal marked a victory for internet service providers like AT&T, Comcast and Verizon Communications and could recast the digital landscape.

  • Friday, December 15th 2017 - 07:35 UTC

    Venezuelan opposition receives European Union prize for human rights

    “In the next few months, there should be a presidential election and we ask Europe and the free world to pay full attention,” Julio Borges said

    Venezuela’s opposition received a European Union prize for human rights and urged the world to keep a close eye on an upcoming presidential election where it aspires to end two decades of socialist rule in the OPEC nation. Foes of President Nicolas Maduro failed to dislodge him during months of street protests this year that turned violent killing more than 125 people, and have been dismayed to see him consolidate his power in recent months.

  • Friday, December 15th 2017 - 01:55 UTC

    Brazil will join the UN peace force in Central Africa Republic with 750 troops

    Brazil has had a strong interest in participating in UN missions in order to increase its international profile.

    Brazil will join the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic, Minusca, the United Nations has announced. This is an important decision since Brasilia looks to maintain a high profile in UN peace operations and show its increased interest in Africa.

  • Thursday, December 14th 2017 - 17:39 UTC

    EU warns UK there is no “backtracking” on the divorce deal reached by PM May in Brussels

    EU’s chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier warned there could not be any “backtracking” on the divorce deal struck between Theresa May and Brussels.

    Britain and the EU face a “furious race against time” to agree a transition deal and future trade relations within the next 10 months, European Council president Donald Tusk has said. In a letter to the leaders of the 27 remaining EU states ahead of a crucial summit on December 14-15, Mr Tusk urged them to show continued “unity” as Brexit negotiations enter their second phase.