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Montevideo, March 26th 2026 - 03:41 UTC

International

  • Monday, June 19th 2023 - 10:33 UTC

    US-China ties: Blinken, Qin try to keep dialogue channels open

    Blinken's trip is to conclude following further meetings with Chinese officials on Monday.

    US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang for more than five hours Sunday to keep channels open as the two countries are -in Quin's words- “at their lowest point since the establishment of diplomatic relations.”

  • Monday, June 19th 2023 - 10:18 UTC

    The Scotchmen football club tour of Argentina and Uruguay in 1923

    Third Lanark arrived in Argentina on 9 June 1923 after three weeks at sea

    One hundred years ago, a Scottish football club embarked on a controversial overseas tour to Argentina and Uruguay. “Are Third Lanark wise?” was the question as the Glasgow club set sail for a summer in South America.

  • Monday, June 19th 2023 - 10:02 UTC

    Swiss voters fearing melting glaciers vote to become carbon neutral by 2050

    A full 59.1% of voters back the law, requiring Switzerland to slash its dependence on imported oil and gas and scale up the development of greener alternatives.

    Swiss voters on Sunday supported a new climate bill aimed at combating the melting glaciers and requiring the country to become carbon neutral by 2050. Leading Swiss glaciologist Matthias Huss, who has closely followed the glaciers' decline, tweeted that a “strong signal” had been sent, adding he was ”very happy the arguments of climate science were heard.

  • Monday, June 19th 2023 - 10:00 UTC

    Italy blocks Chinese company from taking control of tyre giant Pirelli

    Beijing-controlled chemical giant Sinochem is Pirelli's biggest shareholder, with a 37% stake in the 151-year-old Milan-based firm.

    Italy has moved to block a Chinese state-owned company from taking control of tyre making giant Pirelli. The decision is part of measures announced by Italy's government to protect businesses considered strategically important, and as such Pirelli's independence.

  • Monday, June 19th 2023 - 09:16 UTC

    England/Wales police told to 'ramp up', stop-and-search powers

    Home Secretary Suella Braverman said the “dangerous culture” of carrying weapons “must be brought to a stop”.

    The home secretary has told police leaders to “ramp up” the use of stop-and-search powers to prevent more knife attacks and “save more lives”. In a letter to all 43 forces in England and Wales, Suella Braverman said the “dangerous culture” of carrying weapons “must be brought to a stop”.

  • Monday, June 19th 2023 - 08:18 UTC

    Ramophosa tells Putin Ukraine war needs to end

    The conflict must be solved through diplomatic channels, Ramophosa insisted

    South African President Cyril Ramaphosa told his Russian colleague Vladimir Putin during the weekend that the war in Ukraine must “come to an end” because it “has a negative impact on the African continent and of course on many other countries around the world.”

  • Saturday, June 17th 2023 - 10:22 UTC

    The Nazi eagle of battleship Graf von Spee to become a dove of peace

    The eagle with the Nazi emblem in its claws hoisted from the River Plate back in 2006

    The man-sized, 350 kilos bronze eagle holding the Nazi emblem in its claws, rescued from the remains of the German battleship scuttled in the River Plate will be turned into a dove of peace, to be located somewhere along the Uruguayan coast where the mighty River Plate becomes the Atlantic Ocean.

  • Saturday, June 17th 2023 - 09:54 UTC

    Is it really the end of populism

    It feels over in the UK, where Johnson is totally discredited and the Conservative Party is heading for almost certain defeat in the next election

    By Gwynne Dyer – We’re going to miss them the populist ‘big beasts’ now they’re gone. Who will now tell us that “Voting Conservative will cause your wife to have bigger breasts and increase your chances of owning a BMW M3”? (Boris Johnson)

  • Saturday, June 17th 2023 - 09:06 UTC

    WWII: Graf Spee's eagle to be turned into a bronze dove of peace

    “The signal from our country to our people and the outside world is that we are a society of peace and union,” Lacalle said

    Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou Friday announced that the bronze eagle retrieved from the wreckage of the German World War II battleship Admiral Graf Spee in 2006 will be transformed into a dove as a “symbol of peace and union” by local artist Pablo Atchugarry, whose work is expected to be completed by November, it was reported in Montevideo.

  • Friday, June 16th 2023 - 10:27 UTC

    UK Parliament consulting Falklands Legislative Assembly on Overseas Territoires

    There is an inquiry by UK Parliament into Overseas Territories status in the 21st Century and the Falklands Legislative Assembly intend to make a submission

    There is currently an inquiry by UK Parliament into the status of the Overseas Territories in the 21st Century and the Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly intend to make a submission, confirmed MLA Teslyn Barkman to Penguin News this week.