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Montevideo, June 14th 2026 - 08:23 UTC

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  • Wednesday, June 3rd 2026 - 02:04 UTC

    How Triangle Pest Control Helps Protect Charlotte, NC Homes Year-Round

    Photo: Pexels

    Pests have the ability to transform a cozy house into a stressful environment within a very short time. Homeowners in Charlotte are frequently faced with ants in their kitchens, mosquitoes in their backyards, rodents in their attics, and termites around their wooden buildings.

  • Tuesday, June 2nd 2026 - 23:06 UTC

    EU-Mercosur trade deal takes effect provisionally as legal challenge awaits ruling

    Practical implementation is already showing its first challenges

    A month after the provisional entry into force of the trade agreement between the European Union (EU) and Mercosur, exchanges have been governed since May 1 by the terms agreed upon, while political and legal attention in Brussels centers on the EU Court of Justice, which must rule on the validity of the mechanism chosen to launch the treaty.

  • Tuesday, June 2nd 2026 - 15:48 UTC

    Israel and Hezbollah keep firing despite Trump's announcement of an end to hostilities

    Netanyahu emerged battered, at home and abroad, from his intention the previous day to launch a wave of bombings on Beirut, canceled on Trump's orders

    A day after US President Donald Trump announced an agreement to end the military clashes in Lebanon, the fighting continued on Tuesday with little change from previous days. Israel is limiting itself to not striking Beirut, but its bombings killed 12 people in various parts of the country. Hezbollah, for its part, kept firing, though it stopped aiming at the Israeli towns farthest from the border that it had recently been targeting.

  • Monday, June 1st 2026 - 13:39 UTC

    Falklands Legislative Assembly marks Overseas Territories Day and start of Pride Month

    “Though diverse in geography and culture, we are united by our shared values, our commitment to self-governance, and our pride in being British,” the Legislative Assembly said

    The Falklands Legislative Assembly on 1 June marked British Overseas Territories Day with an institutional ceremony at Victory Green, in Stanley, in which the archipelago's flag flew alongside that of the United Kingdom throughout the day. The annual commemoration brings together the fourteen British Overseas Territories scattered across the Caribbean, the South Atlantic, the Antarctic, and the Pacific under a shared agenda of self-government and links with the administering power.

  • Monday, June 1st 2026 - 08:27 UTC

    Falklands, Territorial integrity and selfdetermination dominate discussions,… but oil may change that

    UK counters that descendants of British settlers, present since the 1830s, possess the right to self-determination (Photo BOT)<br />

    The following piece from The Conversation was presented Vicky Kapogianni Lecturer in EU and International Law, University of Reading and Eric Loefflad, Lecturer in Law, LLM Pathway Director for Human Rights Law and International Law with International Relations, University of Kent

  • Monday, June 1st 2026 - 05:17 UTC

    Uruguay submits EUR 60 million offer to acquire three Royal Navy used patrol vessels

    The units in question correspond to the first generation of the Royal Navy's River class —HMS Tyne, HMS Mersey, and HMS Severn—, built between 2001 and 2003

    The Uruguayan government will this week present a formal offer to the United Kingdom's embassy for the acquisition of three used offshore patrol vessels belonging to the British Royal Navy, for an approximate amount of 60 million euros, as announced by the Deputy Secretary of the Presidency, Jorge Díaz. The operation, structured as a direct state-to-state purchase, fits within the administration of President Yamandú Orsi's search to replace the contract terminated with the Spanish shipyard Cardama, in parallel with the hardening of accusations from the Uruguayan executive against the Vigo-based company over the use of public funds transferred.

  • Saturday, May 30th 2026 - 07:31 UTC

    United States and Iran acknowledge preliminary agreement but disagree on its essential terms

    The most significant divergences concern the practical aspects of the eventual deal

    The administrations of US President Donald Trump and the Iranian government confirmed on Friday the existence of a preliminary agreement aimed at extending the current ceasefire by sixty days and opening formal talks on Iran's nuclear program, in what amounts to the most significant diplomatic advance since the start of the war three months ago. However, the versions disseminated by Washington and Tehran on the content of the understanding differ substantially on the central points: the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, the fate of the highly enriched uranium under Iranian control, and the possible payment of frozen funds to the Islamic Republic.

  • Friday, May 29th 2026 - 07:00 UTC

    Global carmakers struggle to maintain competitiveness against China's technological offensive

    The Chinese consolidation has altered the nature of traditional alliances

    Major US, European, and Japanese automakers are undergoing a process of strategic repositioning in the face of the accelerated rise of Chinese manufacturers, which have consolidated their leadership in electric vehicles, batteries, industrial design, and software development, according to an investigation published this week by the BBC on the occasion of Auto China 2026, the world's largest motor show. The transformation is reflected in the public acknowledgment from executives themselves: the president of Honda, Toshihiro Mibe, said after visiting a highly automated plant in Shanghai that his company has “no chance against this,” while Ford CEO Jim Farley warned that Western carmakers are “in a fight for our lives.”

  • Thursday, May 28th 2026 - 08:11 UTC

    Scotland wants a new independence referendum, despite Downing Street’s rejection

    During the debate in Holyrood, First Minister John Swinney claimed he was confident Scots would back independence if given the chance to vote on the issue again. (Pic PA)

    The consequences of the disastrous results of the recent local elections in UK, both for the incumbent Labour and the Conservatives, not only have questioned PM Keir Starmer’s leadership but revived old challenges. And one of those is Scotland’s call for a second independence referendum.

  • Thursday, May 28th 2026 - 07:26 UTC

    UK’s Royal College of Defense visited Brazil, Argentina and Chile

    The delegation at the Chilean Antarctic Institute

    A delegation from the United Kingdom’s Royal College of Defense Studies (RCDS) visited Chile the week of 18 May as part of its annual tour of Latin America, aimed at strengthening strategic analysis and global understanding of challenges related to security, defense and international cooperation.