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Montevideo, July 7th 2025 - 08:52 UTC

International

  • Wednesday, June 14th 2023 - 10:00 UTC

    British Embassy in Buenos Aires has selected six “Ambassadors for a Day” 2023

    After a careful selection process, the British Embassy in Argentina has announced that six Argentine young women aged between 19 and 26 are the winners of the “Ambassador for a Day” competition new edition, which will give them a first-hand experience in diplomatic work and enable them to join a network of female leaders from different countries in the region.

  • Wednesday, June 14th 2023 - 09:12 UTC

    Fernández, von der Leyen discuss EU-Mercosur ties

    “We have a window of opportunity to conclude the agreement,” von der Leyen said in a post-meeting joint press conference.

    Argentine President Alberto Fernández met Tuesday at Casa Rosada with European Commission head Ursula von der Leyen to discuss the South American country's trade relations with the European Union (EU), as well as the Mercosur-EU agreement ahead of next month's Summit with CELAC in Brussels.

  • Wednesday, June 14th 2023 - 06:37 UTC

    MSC shopping for up to 24 dual-fuelled 8,000 TEU ships

    MSC, which recently became the first liner in the world to have a 5m slot fleet, has a giant order book of new builds, with more than 1.5m slots on order

    World’s largest container line, Mediterranean Shipping C, MSC, is shopping again in Asia for more new builds. Maersk Broker is reporting MSC has approached top yards in China and South Korea for a new series of dual-fuelled 8,000 TEU ships, with MSC tipped to be enquiring for both LNG and methanol dual-fuel vessels.

  • Tuesday, June 13th 2023 - 11:12 UTC

    It's official: Tierra del Fuego planning a multipurpose port in Rio Grande

    Shaanxi Chemical Industry and Tierra del Fuego Peronist governor Gustavo Melella in August last year signed an MoU which has been kept mostly secret

    Argentina's general elections next October are focusing mainly on inflation (150% this year, cost of living and food prices), plus security and street violence, but for those a bit better off and with time to think a semi-hidden issue, plus the overall influence of China in the country.

  • Tuesday, June 13th 2023 - 10:58 UTC

    WaPo: US pushing for 6 new UN Security Council permanent members

    African countries insist they were under colonial domination when the UN was established

    According to The Washington Post, the United States is developing a proposal to add six permanent members to the UN Security Council who would nonetheless not have veto rights. “The evolving US proposal, which is expected to include the addition of up to six permanent seats to the Council without granting those nations veto power, ” the WaPo reported on Monday.

  • Tuesday, June 13th 2023 - 10:45 UTC

    Spain exhuming Civil War remains and returning them to their families towns

    The law, one of the first to be passed by Socialist PM Pedro Sánchez, aims to make reparations to the families of Franco's victims and modernize the narrative

    A team of experts in Spain has begun work to exhume the bodies of more than 100 civil war victims from a huge basilica complex near Madrid, where dictator Francisco Franco once lay.

  • Tuesday, June 13th 2023 - 10:25 UTC

    Italy mourns Il Cavaliere Berlusconi, the end of an era in Italy

    Berlusconi had an outsized impact on Italian society and politics, and was the subject of highly complex civil and criminal investigations.

    The passing of Il Cavaliere, Silvio Berlusconi, is the end of an era for Italy. For the past fifty years, his shadow has loomed large over parliament, the media, football and the man on the street.

  • Tuesday, June 13th 2023 - 10:19 UTC

    Uruguayan World Champs get the hero's welcome

    Legendary striker Luis Suárez (in a red jersey) hopped on the bus to take pictures with the players

    Uruguay's U-20 World Cup-winning national team was given a hero's welcome in Montevideo on Monday as the public poured into the streets to cheer their bus as it made its way through the South American country's capital along the Rambla, along Avenida 18 de Julio, on its way to the Centenario stadium.

  • Tuesday, June 13th 2023 - 08:16 UTC

    UAE Minister has busy day in Buenos Aires

    Minister Reem Al Hashimy met first with Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero and then with Vice President CFK

    Argentine Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero Monday welcomed United Arab Emirates Minister of State for International Cooperation Reem Al Hashimy to deepen bilateral ties and open new exchange channels between both countries, it was reported by the Palacio San Martín.

  • Tuesday, June 13th 2023 - 01:36 UTC

    Brazilian beef stranded in Chinese ports triggers a Lula phone call to Xi

    According to Lula, Minister of Agriculture, Carlos Fávaro, informed him that “70,000 tons of meat are stuck inside containers at Chinese ports.”

    Since some 70,000 tons of Brazilian beef are stranded at Chinese ports awaiting an official clearance resolution from Beijing since the identification of an atypical case of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), known as “mad cow disease” in Brazil, President Lula da Silva revealed he contacted his counterpart Xi Jinping on Juke 6, to try and overcome the situation.