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Montevideo, April 7th 2025 - 01:47 UTC

International

  • Tuesday, December 3rd 2024 - 10:55 UTC

    Paris’ obsession against a deal with Mercosur: shortcomings of French agribusiness

    French agribusiness has struggled to maintain competitiveness, not only against producers outside the EU but also within the bloc, particularly Poland and Romania.

    Why is France so committed to avoid making viable the European Union/Mercosur trade and cooperation agreement? Interest group in France argue that domestic agribusiness has been undergoing profound structural changes over the past few decades, among which declining productivity, rising costs, and a waning interest among younger generations in pursuing agricultural work.

  • Tuesday, December 3rd 2024 - 10:33 UTC

    What will the Mercosur summit discuss?

    As Uruguay prepares to hand over Mercosur’s pro tempore presidency to Argentina, this summit could define the bloc’s path forward amid global trade uncertainties

    Montevideo will host the XLV Mercosur Summit on 5-6 December, bringing together South American leaders to discuss pressing regional issues. Outgoing Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou will chair the meeting, along with Argentina's Javier Milei, Brazil's Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Paraguay's Santiago Peña. Uruguay's President-elect Yamandú Orsi will also attend.

  • Monday, December 2nd 2024 - 21:26 UTC

    ICC Chief Prosecutor addresses Venezuela's human rights crisis

    Khan stressed “the need to protect the rights of civilians, including children.”

    International Criminal Court (ICC) Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan Monday demanded that Venezuelan authorities release all adolescents and other political prisoners held after protests erupted following the controversial July 28 elections where President Nicolás Maduro was declared the winner despite failing to produce any documentation attesting thereto while the opposition Unitarian Democratic Platform (PUD) published the minutes of 83% of the voting stations proving that their candidate Edmundo González Urrutia had triumphed.

  • Monday, December 2nd 2024 - 09:49 UTC

    Argentina celebrates 65th Anniversary of Antarctic Treaty

    Argentina has been a Consultative Party to the Antarctic Treaty since it entered into force in 1961

    The Government of Argentina celebrated Sunday the 65th Anniversary of the Antarctic Treaty which, Buenos Aires insisted in a statement, “established the exclusively peaceful use of Antarctica and promoted scientific cooperation on the sixth continent.”

  • Monday, December 2nd 2024 - 09:07 UTC

    Falklands, construction of a new HMS Sheffield, a state of the art Type 26 Frigate

    The Type 26 frigates will be the most advanced warships in the world (Picture: BAE Systems)

    Construction has begun on the Royal Navy's latest Type 26 frigate, HMS Sheffield, with the first steel being cut in a ceremony in Glasgow. The official beginning of construction was marked by an event attended by Defense Procurement Minister Maria Eagle.

  • Sunday, December 1st 2024 - 23:40 UTC

    China absorbs most of Argentina’s beef exports but at lower prices

    Argentine beef exports in ten months to October reached 642,000 tons of which 78% went to China

    China figures as the main market for Argentine beef, having absorbed in nine months to October 78% of exports, based on data from the ABC Consortium, which represents the country’s largest beef exporters.

  • Sunday, December 1st 2024 - 23:21 UTC

    Argentina authorize RRS James Cook research missions in the Southwestern Atlantic

    The RRS James Cook is a British Royal Research Ship operated by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).

    The Argentine Federal Fisheries Council has agreed to grant authorization to Britain’s RRS James Cook belonging to the Natural Environment Research Council, NERC, to advance scientific research operations in Argentina’s EEZ, involving two main projects.

  • Saturday, November 30th 2024 - 10:21 UTC

    Brazil successfully completes first phase of Operation Potiguar

    The second phase of Operation Potiguar is scheduled for the second half of 2025

    Brazil's Air Force confirmed Friday the successful launch of an unmanned rocket into space. The unit was built with 100% national technology, it was also explained at the Barreira do Inferno Center in Parnamirim, in the State of Rio Grande do Norte.

  • Friday, November 29th 2024 - 21:46 UTC

    Brazilian becomes oldest man alive

    Marinho Neto says the key to his longevity was to always be surrounded by people who loved him

    Brazil's 112-year-old João Marinho Neto has been confirmed by the Guinness Book of Records as the oldest man alive following the death on Nov. 25 of Briton John Alfred Tinniswood, who was also 112.

  • Friday, November 29th 2024 - 10:57 UTC

    France's Parliament gives thumbs down to EU-Mercosur FTA

    France's Senate joined the Lower House in an unusual display of consensus in an otherwise politically divided country

    France's Parliament was unusually united this week in rejecting the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the European Union (EU) and the Southern Common Market (Mercosur), thus yielding to protests from local farmers who fear unfair competition. The Senate gave its thumbs down Thursday, just one day after the Lower House did the same by 484 votes against 70.