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Montevideo, July 3rd 2025 - 10:32 UTC

International

  • Monday, December 12th 2016 - 15:17 UTC

    Germany wants to extends unilateral border controls beyond EU's deadline

    Germany to carry on with unilateral border controls, despite EU, says Stephan Mayer, a member of the German Bundestag

    As EU's Interior Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos declined an extension beyond February and pushed for things to go “back to Schengen,” Germany prepares to go ahead on its own to maintain the border controls in Bavaria for a longer period of time. Border controls between the Schengen countries are only acceptable as a time-limited exception to the rule of open borders. Better protected EU external borders should make the controls in the interior of Europe superfluous.

  • Monday, December 12th 2016 - 14:18 UTC

    Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni is Italy's new Prime Minister

    Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni becomes Italy's new Prime Minister following the resignation of Matteo Renzi

    State President Sergio Mattarella commissioned the 62-year-old Social Democrat to form a new government. Gentiloni said his nomination was a “great honor,” which he wanted to fulfill with “consciousness of responsibility and dignity.” It is unclear whether he will remain in office until spring 2018.

  • Sunday, December 11th 2016 - 23:14 UTC

    Peru's Air Force Mi-8/17 helicopters secure spares from Russia as of next year

    Peru's military helicopters will get their spare parts straight from their Russian manufacturer

    The Russian Helicopters holding came out the winning bidder on supply of spare parts for Mi-8/17 helicopters of Peru’s Air Force and will start deliveries next year, Executive Director of the company Grigoriy Kozlov said on Friday. The company also plans to build a pilot training center in Peru next year, it was announced.

  • Sunday, December 11th 2016 - 22:07 UTC

    Global de-mining conference in Chile concerned over growing use of improvised landmines

    The international gathering involved more than 400 participants representing over 100 delegations including nine from States not party

    The Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention's Fifteenth Meeting of the States Parties (15MSP) concluded a week of work in Santiago, Chile, recording success in stockpile destruction with Poland announcing it had destroyed one million stockpiled landmines bringing to 158 the number of States that no longer hold stocks.

  • Sunday, December 11th 2016 - 18:46 UTC

    A Positive Report on The Falklands

    Hon Sec of the Falkland Islands Association and veteran of the 1982 War Lt. Col. Tym Marsh, FIA Chairman Alan Huckle and FIA Treasurer Falkland Islander James Wallace at the AGM.

    An update on the progress of the Falkland Islands’ economy has been given to the Falkland Islands Association at their annual general meeting in London. Member of the Legislative Assembly, Mr. Mike Summers indicated that all aspect of the Islands development were doing well.

  • Saturday, December 10th 2016 - 18:06 UTC

    Italian national killed in Brazilian favela

    Italian biker Roberto Bardella in one of his last pictures, wearing the helmet with a camera mounted on it, which eventually cost him his life, Pic FB

    Recalculating his route did not become an option for the Italian national Roberto Bardella who was shot and killed by drug dealers, who mistook him for a policeman, after his navigation system led him into the Morro dos Prazeres favela in Rio de Janeiro.

  • Saturday, December 10th 2016 - 17:44 UTC

    Cuba and Russia sign defence cooperation agreement

    Russia's Deputy PM Dmitry Rogozin (left) and Cuban Vicepresident Ricardo Cabrisas during the signing of the agreements Friday in Havana

    The Vicepresident of the Council of Ministers of Cuba, Ricardo Cabrisas Ruiz and Russia's Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin Friday signed a new defense cooperation agreement in Havana as well as six other treaties in the fields of technology, aviation, medicine and railroad transport.

  • Saturday, December 10th 2016 - 12:43 UTC

    Falklands: Two Argentine forensic experts will work with the Red Cross team at Darwin cemetery

    The Darwin cemetery where there are 123 graves holding unidentified remains of Argentine combatants fallen in 1982

    Two Argentine forensic experts will be part of the group under the Red Cross that will collect DNA samples from the remains of the Argentine unidentified combatants buried at the Falkland Islands' Darwin cemetery with the purpose of fulfilling the task of identifying the graves which read “Argentine solider, only known unto God”.

  • Saturday, December 10th 2016 - 12:30 UTC

    Santander announces new investment in Mexico's banking market

    Santander Mexico CEO Hector Grisi announces new investment despite Trump-wave uncertainty

    Banco Santander has announced plans to invest 15 billion pesos ($735 million) in Mexico over the next three years despite market uncertainty as U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration draws nearer.

  • Saturday, December 10th 2016 - 10:37 UTC

    Obama orders review of election-campaign cyber-attacks and points to Russia

    U.S. intelligence officials accused Russia of hacking into Democratic officials’ email accounts in an attempt to interfere with the presidential campaign.

    President Barack Obama has ordered intelligence officials to conduct a broad review of election-season cyber-attacks, including the email hacks that rattled the presidential campaign and raised fresh concerns about Russia’s meddling in U.S. elections, the White House said Friday.