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Montevideo, December 11th 2025 - 15:30 UTC

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  • Wednesday, September 4th 2024 - 09:53 UTC

    Falklands/Brize Norton airbridge flights fully booked; recommendations for challenging September

    Mount Pleasant Complex International Airport

    The Falkland Islands Government with the UK Ministry of Defense is working on bookings and waiting lists for the airbridge, during the month of September and announced the following release, ”Our community will be aware of the current strain on Airbridge flights where all flights are fully booked, and nearly every flight waitlisted. The cancelled and returned flights in late August has added additional pressure on the availability of Airbridge seats.

  • Wednesday, September 4th 2024 - 09:53 UTC

    Falklands commemorates Merchant Navy Day and honors the Red Ensign

    The Red Ensign flying in windy Falkland Islands

    On Merchant Navy Day, 3 September, the Falkland Islands remember all those merchant seafarers who helped to liberate the Falkland Islands in 1982 and those, past and present, who do so much to keep our waters safe.

  • Tuesday, September 3rd 2024 - 07:51 UTC

    Falklands: Operation Manager of Demining Project in the King's Honorary List

    Ordnance uncovered and collected in mined fields, finally destroyed as part of the eleven year project to clean and recover Falklands soil and beaches

    The Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly and Government House in an official release said they were delighted to learn that former Operations Manager, Phillimon Gonamombe, of the successful 11-year demining project in the Falklands has been appointed as an Honorary MBE by H M The King.

  • Tuesday, September 3rd 2024 - 07:46 UTC

    Falklands commissioning first independent inspection of Stanley's Hospital, KEMH

    Lay out of KEMH, in Stanley, has already received external oversight from UK's Ministry of Defense

    Falklands Islands King Edward VII Memorial Hospital (KEMH) is committed to providing good quality, cost-effective and evidence-based health services that address the identified needs of the population we serve, in order to preserve life, treat illness and promote lifelong well-being within the resources that are available in the Falkland Islands.

  • Saturday, August 31st 2024 - 10:50 UTC

    Two Colombian soldiers arrested in Russia after return from Ukraine during stopover in Caracas

    Medina shared his geolocation from the Venezuelan capital's airport during a stopover from Madrid. That was the last time their families had any contact with them.

    Two Colombian soldiers who fought alongside Ukrainian forces against Russia have been captured in Moscow after a mysterious disappearance during their journey home. José Arón Medina Aranda and Alexander Ante, who were last seen in Caracas on July 18 after landing from Madrid, have surfaced in a video showing them under arrest in Russia, where they are accused of being mercenaries.

  • Saturday, August 31st 2024 - 08:53 UTC

    WHO Director urges governments to work together against mpox

    Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said efforts were underway to facilitate access to vaccines against this disease formerly known as monkeypox

    World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Friday estimated that with proper “government leadership, the mpox outbreak can be over in six months.”

  • Friday, August 30th 2024 - 09:55 UTC

    De Moraes now freezes Starlink's accounts to collect fines on X

    ”De Moraes' colleagues on the Supreme Court are either unable or unwilling to confront him,” Musk's X argued

    Brazil's Supreme Federal Court (STF) Justice Alexandre De Moraes Thursday froze internet supplier Starlink's accounts to guarantee the payments of the fines he imposed on the social media platform X, Agencia Brasil reported. Both X and Starlink are owned by South African-born tycoon Elon Musk, who has repeatedly dubbed the magistrate “a dictator.”

  • Friday, August 30th 2024 - 09:36 UTC

    Foundation stone laid for Google's data center in Uruguay

    Google's data center will cost US$ 850 million and be ready in 26 months, it was explained

    Representatives of technology giant Google and the Uruguayan Government, including President Luis Lacalle Pou, took part Thursday in the ceremony marking the laying of the foundation stone for the company's future data center in Pando, in the department (province) of Canelones, within Montevideo's Metropolitan Area.

  • Friday, August 30th 2024 - 09:31 UTC

    Former Red Brigades fighter arrested in Buenos Aires

    It remains to be seen whether Bertulazzi can now be extradited to Italy

    Argentine authorities Thursday arrested former Italian far-left Red Brigades guerrilla fighter Leonardo Bertulazzi who had been a fugitive since the 1980s and was residing in the South American country as an asylum seeker. The suspect's detention was made possible through a decision by Buenos Aires to strip him of his refugee status.

  • Thursday, August 29th 2024 - 08:18 UTC

    Falklands travelers to benefit with seats for the Ascension/St Helena Airlink

    The Falkland Islands Government has informed that an agreement has been signed with Ascension Island Government to guarantee travelers from the Falkland Islands ten seats on each flight connecting Ascension and St Helena – known as the St Helena Airlink. This agreement removes the risk of travelers from the Falklands not being able to book a seat by guaranteeing availability.