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Montevideo, October 20th 2025 - 17:00 UTC

International

  • Thursday, June 2nd 2016 - 07:13 UTC

    Europe opens the longest tunnel in the world, 57km, under the Swiss Alps

    With political unity on the continent shaken, Swiss president Johann Schneider-Ammann said the tunnel would “join the people and the economies” of Europe.

    The world's longest tunnel officially opened on Wednesday, with the trailblazing rail passage under the Swiss Alps aiming to ease transit through the heart of Europe. With political unity on the continent shaken by a massive influx of migrants and the looming threat of Britain's EU departure, Swiss president Johann Schneider-Ammann said the tunnel would “join the people and the economies” of Europe.

  • Thursday, June 2nd 2016 - 06:48 UTC

    UK and Germany side by side at the centenary of the biggest naval engagement of WW One

    The battle was fought near the coast of Denmark on 31 May and 1 June 1916 and involved about 250 ships.

    The centenary of the biggest naval engagement of World War One was marked by commemorative events on Tuesday, 31 May. A service at St Magnus Cathedral in Orkney paid tribute to the 8,648 sailors who died during the Battle of Jutland and a service of remembrance also took place on board HMS Duncan at Jutland Bank, the site of the battle.

  • Wednesday, June 1st 2016 - 08:40 UTC

    Ban Ki-moon emphasizes on the 'freely expressed will' for non-self-governing territories

    The Secretary General said that the full measure of self-government can be achieved through independence, integration or free association with another State.

    According to the UN charter the full measure of self-government of the peoples of the Non-Self-Governing Territories must be the result of the freely expressed will and desire of those peoples, said UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in his message to the opening of the Pacific Regional Seminar on Decolonization, currently taking place in Managua, Nicaragua.

  • Wednesday, June 1st 2016 - 06:06 UTC

    Maduro to Almagro: “stick up the Democratic Charter wherever it fits”

    “Venezuela will be respected and nobody’s going to apply any charter of any kind – or whatever they want to call it – to Venezuela,” Maduro blasted.

    Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said on Tuesday that Organization of American States chief Luis Almagro had called for foreign “intervention” in his country by invoking the body’s Democratic Charter in response to the political crisis in Venezuela.

  • Wednesday, June 1st 2016 - 03:11 UTC

    Falklands, after 'boom' years, announces a prudent mid/term sustainable budget

    Financial Secretary Nicola Granger made the presentation of the Appropriations and Finance bills to the Legislative Assembly

    The Falkland Islands Financial Secretary Nicola Granger presented on Tuesday to the Legislative Assembly the 2016/17 financial budget bill with appropriations of £62.9M, funded from revenues anticipated in the year of £61.3M with the remainder coming from the reserves built up from wind-falls in Illex catches and oil and gas exploration in recent years.

  • Tuesday, May 31st 2016 - 18:47 UTC

    Argentina’s Eternal Debt Problem

    Argentina’s absence from international capital markets began in 2001, when a deep economic crisis brought about the end of the decade-old Convertibility Plan

    By Carmen Reinhart (*) Argentina recently emerged from nearly 15 years of the most litigious sovereign default in modern times, if not ever. Now it has the opportunity to reenter the global financial system and build a more stable and prosperous future. It is a chance that the country must be careful not to squander.

  • Tuesday, May 31st 2016 - 18:11 UTC

    Argentina and China address fishing vessels poaching in the South Atlantic

    In mid-March the sinking of the Chinese vessel Lu Yan Yuan 010 when fishing in Argentina's EEZ triggered a surge in diplomatic discussions.

    The Argentine news agency Pescare reports that the repeated illegal incursion of Asian vessels in Argentina's Exclusive Economic Zone prompted the issue to be addressed during the recent meeting of the bilateral Argentina/China Subcommittee on Fisheries.

  • Tuesday, May 31st 2016 - 17:30 UTC

    FAO sponsored illegal fishing accord scheduled to become law on 5 June; 30 countries have adhered

    Each year, IUU fishing is responsible for annual catches of up to 26 million tons, with a value of up to US$ 23 billion.

    Illegal, unregulated and unreported (IUU) fishing is about to become much more difficult thanks to the imminent entry into force of the Port State Measures Agreement (PSMA), a ground-breaking international accord championed by FAO.

  • Tuesday, May 31st 2016 - 06:16 UTC

    World No Tobacco Day, 31 May 2016: Get ready for plain packaging

    “Plain packaging reduces attractiveness of tobacco products. It kills the glamour, which is appropriate for a product that kills people,” says Dr. Margaret Chan.

    Recent moves to introduce plain (standardized) packaging of tobacco products can save lives by reducing demand for tobacco products, say the World Health Organization (WHO) and the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Secretariat (WHO FCTC).

  • Monday, May 30th 2016 - 07:48 UTC

    At the 100th anniversary of Verdun, Hollande and Merkel appeal to unity

    Hollande and Merkel said just as France and Germany had put aside their shared history to become close allies, EU must now pull together to deal current challenges. (Pic EPA)

    French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel appealed on Sunday for Europe to unite to face its current challenges as they marked the 100th anniversary of Verdun, the longest battle of World War I. The 300 days of fighting in northeast France were one of the bloodiest battles of the war, claiming more than 300,000 lives before France emerged victorious.