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Montevideo, November 3rd 2025 - 04:46 UTC

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  • Friday, February 19th 2016 - 04:35 UTC

    Macri and Renzi vow to promote bilateral trade and Italian investments in Argentina

    “We are focused in trade and getting new investments, in renewable energy, in railways. We want Italian companies to invest in Argentina,” said Macri

    President Mauricio Macri and visiting Italian premier Matteo Renzi vowed to “re-launch bilateral relations”, and emphasized the Italian interest in participating in energy, transport, gas and technology projects in the country which has become home to one of the largest Italian migrations.

  • Thursday, February 18th 2016 - 07:16 UTC

    Russian Patriarch holds mass at the Bellingshausen Antarctic base

    “Here, at the top of the world… When I blessed water in Antarctica today I was thinking about the entire planet below and prayed for this God’s creation,”

    Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill on Wednesday served mass at Russia’s Bellingshausen Antarctic station on Waterloo Island and raised a prayer for the entire world. It was the last leg of the Patriarch's Latin American tour that included a meeting with Pope Francis in Cuba, ending a Christianity schism of almost a thousand years.

  • Thursday, February 18th 2016 - 06:51 UTC

    US congressional delegation visits Gibraltar in support of self determination

    Democratic Lois Frankel (Florida) said Americans believe in democracy and people’s right to vote for who should be in charge of their political lives.

    A visiting delegation from the Congress of the United States has praised Gibraltar's economy and spoken of why they co-sponsored a bill supporting Gibraltar’s right to self-determination in the House of Representatives.

  • Thursday, February 18th 2016 - 06:07 UTC

    Norway's Statoil joins Tullow Oil and expands share in Uruguay's Pelotas basin

    “With this transaction, we are increasing our exposure to the upside potential of this untested geological setting”, said Statoil’s Nicholas Alan Maden

    Norway’s Statoil said that it has signed an agreement with Tullow Oil to secure a 35% working interest in a Uruguay’s Pelotas basin exploration block 15, about 200 kilometers off the coast of Uruguay.

  • Thursday, February 18th 2016 - 01:03 UTC

    Malvinas, a dream that can be rescued

    Dante Caputo was foreign minister between 1983 and 1989 under ex president Raúl Alfonsín

    Under this heading Dante Caputo, a former Argentine foreign minister (1983/89) with an impeccable domestic and international academic background addresses the 'Malvinas question' and proposes Argentina sets a 2033 target for a new attempt on the Islands, this time trying to convince the Falkland Islanders, and that in seventeen years time, the country is reliable and sovereignty discussions should then take place.

  • Wednesday, February 17th 2016 - 11:11 UTC

    Pollack announces a new settlement with Argentine bondholders

    “I am very pleased to report that Argentina has reached an Agreement in Principle to settle the Brecher Class Action” said Special Master Daniel Pollack

    The court-appointed mediator in the bonds dispute says Argentina has reached a settlement with bondholders seeking about 1% of the US$10 billion being pursued by investors. Mediator Daniel Pollack announced on Tuesday in New York the deal in the class action case. The deal came nearly two weeks after he announced two of six leading bondholders settled claims for more than US$1 billion.

  • Wednesday, February 17th 2016 - 11:04 UTC

    Main oil exporters agree to freeze production, ...if all leading producers join

    The quartet said they would freeze output at January levels, which Saudi oil minister Ali al-Naimi called “adequate.”

    Four of the world's biggest oil-producing nations moved to freeze their production on Tuesday to try to halt the 70 percent drop in the price of crude because of a glut of oil on world markets. The agreement was reached by the oil ministers of Russia and three members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela and Qatar, during a closed-door meeting in Doha, the Qatar capital.

  • Wednesday, February 17th 2016 - 10:10 UTC

    British Defence Secretary, Michael Fallon, visits the Falklands

    Michael Fallon arrvies to Stanley from MPA onboard a SAR Sea King

    Michael Fallon, the British Defence Secretary, has become the first Defence Secretary to visit the Falkland Islands in 14 years. The House of Commons is currently in recess this week and the Defence Secretary’s visit directly follows the visit of four other British MPs to the Falklands.

  • Tuesday, February 16th 2016 - 20:41 UTC

    Utterly Committed to Self-Determination; British MPs visit the Falklands.

    The group of MPs were invited to visit by the Falkland Islands Government

    Four British Members of Parliament have been in the Falkland Islands over the past week, whilst the House of Commons is in recess. The cross-party group includes two Labour and two Conservative MPs, with an FIG Representative from London accompanying them.

  • Tuesday, February 16th 2016 - 15:16 UTC

    Argentina rejoins the real world

    Regarding the Falkland/Malvinas Malcorra presented a cautiously optimistic view

    UN John J. Metzler(*) Reversing the trend of economic mismanagement, ending a fifteen year debt impasse with foreign lenders, calming a percolating political crisis over the disputed Falkland/Malvinas islands in the South Atlantic, and overcoming the image of unpredictability, Argentina’s new conservative government faces serious obstacles in reintroducing Argentina to an often skeptical world.