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Montevideo, December 23rd 2024 - 14:10 UTC

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  • Monday, October 21st 2024 - 08:28 UTC

    WHO: 2,2 billion people worldwide with vision impairment or blindness

    The report found that ageing populations, changing lifestyles and limited access to eye care, particularly in low- and middle-income countries, are among the main drivers.

    The World Health Organization in its latest report has said that at least 2.2 billion people worldwide have vision impairment or blindness, of which over 1 billion cases could have been prevented or have yet to be addressed. This is because they do not get the care they need for conditions like short and far-sightedness, glaucoma, and cataracts.

  • Monday, October 21st 2024 - 08:15 UTC

    González Urrutia treated by Venezuelan physician in Spain

    “I was also moved to think that the talent of my fellow countryman was in exile like millions, like me,” González Urrutia reckoned

    Retired Venezuelan diplomat Edmundo González Urrutia, whom many consider to be president-elect after the July 28 polls in which Caracas' National Electoral Committee (CNE) said without producing any corroborating evidence that the incumbent Nicolás Maduro had been the winner for the 2025-2031 period, suffered a fall this past weekend while he was in exile in Spain, for which he was treated by a countryman physician also fleeing the Bolivarian regime.

  • Sunday, October 20th 2024 - 15:46 UTC

    Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust chair to step down

    Donald Lamont former Ambassador in Uruguay and former GovernorFalkland Islands

    Donald Lamont, long-serving Chair of the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust board of Trustees is retiring from his roles as chairman and Trustee. He will relinquish his role as chairman on 21st October 2024 and will resign as a Trustee on 4th November 2024.

  • Saturday, October 19th 2024 - 10:49 UTC

    Holsey to take over from Richardson as SOUTHCOM Chief

    Holsey will be the first African-American SOUTHCOM Chief

    US Army four-star General Laura J. Richardson is to be replaced as Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) Chief by her current second-in-command US Navy Vice Admiral Alvin Holsey, who is to be promoted to full Admiral for his new role, it was announced this week.

  • Saturday, October 19th 2024 - 10:08 UTC

    VIP drug dealing gangs linked to Payne's death in Buenos Aires

    Pending lab results could corroborate whether Payne was intoxicated when he fell to his death

    Investigators in Buenos Aires believed VIP drug dealers for the rich and famous played a part in the death of pop music star Liam Payne in the Argentine capital this week. According to a post-mortem, the former One Direction singer fell from the balcony of a hotel in the Palermo district, which caused hemorrhages. Payne had been in Argentina since appearing at a concert by former bandmate Niall Horan on Oct. 2.

  • Friday, October 18th 2024 - 08:00 UTC

    Orkney and Shetland MP, Chair of All Party Parliamentary Group on Fisheries

    “Fishing is at a critical moment with both opportunities and challenges for the industry,” Carmichael MP

    Alistair Carmichael, MP for Orkney and Shetland, has been elected Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Fisheries (APPG). APPG is a cross-party group in Parliament that discusses and advocates for fisheries policies and related issues.

  • Thursday, October 17th 2024 - 23:46 UTC

    Humanitarian Project in Falkland, Red Cross begins contacts in Buenos Aires

    Foreign minister Diana Mondino and Mr. Carbonnier with the Red Cross delegation at the Argentine Foreign ministry in Buenos Aires

    On Wednesday, October 16th, Argentina's Foreign Minister Diana Mondino received Gilles Carbonier, vice president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, to discuss the resumption of negotiations for the Third Plan of the Humanitarian Project, which is geared to the identification of Argentine combatants who fell in the Falklands during the South Atlantic conflict of 1982.

  • Thursday, October 17th 2024 - 19:19 UTC

    Football: London tabloid foresees Argentina will retain World Cup title

    Argentina's path to the potential second-straight title is filled with South American rivals, as published by The Sun

    Driven by the recent appointment of German Thomas Tuchel as the new manager of England's national football team, London's tabloid The Sun published Thursday a supercomputer study whereby reigning champions Argentina would retain their crown in the 2026 World Cup with a victory over Spain in the final. Uruguay would end up fourth after losing the Third-Place match 1-0 to Tuchel's squad.

  • Thursday, October 17th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

    María Corina Machado denies Maduro's claims of exile: “I am still in Venezuela”

    Machado has been living in semi-clandestinity for the past two months

    Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has categorically denied President Nicolás Maduro’s claims that she has fled the country and sought refuge in Spain. For days, Maduro had been pushing the narrative that Machado had left Venezuela, allegedly following the path of fellow opposition figure Edmundo González Urrutia, who sought asylum in Spain. On Wednesday, however, Machado dispelled these rumors, asserting in a televised interview, “Venezuelans know that I am still here, and Nicolás Maduro knows it too. They are desperate to know where I am, but I am protecting myself and caring for myself. I am not going to give them that pleasure.”

  • Thursday, October 17th 2024 - 10:00 UTC

    Commons tribute to Alex Salmond, twice First Minister of Scotland

    Sir Hoyle recalls lawmaker Salmond (Pic) services to Scotland

    On 14th October before Question Time, the Speaker of the House of Commons, Sir Lindsay Hoyle expressed the condolences of the House to family and friends of the former lawmaker and twice First Minister of Scotland, Alex Salmond.