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Montevideo, May 24th 2025 - 00:17 UTC

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  • Tuesday, May 6th 2025 - 05:54 UTC

    Facebook Marketing Strategy Tips That Actually Work in 2025

    Social media marketing is more popular than ever, but one social media platform often gets overlooked - Facebook (Fb). While this social media platform isn’t as popular as some others, you can still utilize it to promote your business and reach a wider audience.

  • Monday, May 5th 2025 - 20:40 UTC

    FAO Food Price Index increases in April, cereals, meat and dairy lead the tendency

    Harvesting of the 2025 coarse grain crops is beginning in the southern hemisphere, with maize output expected to increase in Brazil and South Africa.

    The benchmark measure of world food commodity prices increased in April, driven by higher quotations for major cereals, meat and dairy products, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) reported.

  • Monday, May 5th 2025 - 10:41 UTC

    Nicaragua to leave UNESCO to deepen absence of press freedom

    La Prensa has been operating online from exile since 2021

    Nicaragua announced it would be withdrawing from the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), effective Dec. 31, 2026, after it granted the 2025 Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize to the opposition newspaper La Prensa. The regime of President Daniel Ortega said the accolade was “unacceptable” and accused the publication of promoting violence and fostering anti-Nicaraguan values.

  • Monday, May 5th 2025 - 10:24 UTC

    Fully electric China Zorrilla ship launched in Australia

    The China Zorrilla is due in Uruguay in Q4 of 2025

    The China Zorrilla, the world’s largest 100% electric ferry, was launched on May 2, 2025, at Incat’s shipyard in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. Commissioned by Buquebus, the 130-meter vessel will connect Argentina and Uruguay across the River Plate, carrying up to 2,100 passengers and 225 vehicles. The vessel is due in Uruguay in the last quarter of 2025. It was the ninth unit Incat has built for Buquebus.

  • Saturday, May 3rd 2025 - 10:50 UTC

    Farage does it again: Reform UK trashes Labour and Tories, becomes main opposition

    Reform UK advanced both in Labour and Tory areas, with candidate Sarah Pochin beating Labour in the Runcorn and Helsby House of Commons by-election

    Populist Nigel Farage and his Reform UK party surged into the lead in local elections across England and grabbed one of Labour’s safest parliamentary seats, trashing Conservatives and becoming head of Britain´s opposition, underline UK media.

  • Saturday, May 3rd 2025 - 10:49 UTC

    Chimney installed for Pope-electing conclave

    Meanwhile, the Vatican's press office denied Cardinal Parolin was ill

    Vatican firefighters installed a chimney on the Sistine Chapel roof for the upcoming conclave to elect Pope Francis’ successor. The chimney, connected to two stoves—one from 1939 for burning ballots and a 2005 model for chemical additives—will emit black smoke for no election, white smoke for a new pope, and yellow smoke for pre-conclave testing.

  • Saturday, May 3rd 2025 - 10:14 UTC

    World Bank grants additional US$ 230 million to Milei's Argentina

    The WB has so far given US$ 1.5 billion to Milei's administration

    The World Bank (WB) Friday approved a US$ 230 million loan for Argentina to enhance job creation and training, supporting the “Promoting Employment” and “Back to Work” programs. This financing, part of a US$ 12 billion three-year package following Argentina’s International Monetary Fund (IMF) agreement, aims to benefit over 800,000 unemployed individuals through training, job search services, and socio-labor skill certification, it was explained.

  • Saturday, May 3rd 2025 - 08:39 UTC

    Tourism tsunami in Antarctica, 125,000 visitors per season and growing

    “The main problem with tourism in Antarctica is that it is growing rapidly, and there is no strict regulation,” Claire Christian, director of the Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition (ASOC)

    The massive inflow of tourism in Antarctica during the austral summer, almost 125,000 visitors per season, more than double the number five years ago, is becoming a growing concern for many NGOs and conservation organizations.

  • Saturday, May 3rd 2025 - 07:55 UTC

    Maduro ignores ruling from UN court in new attempt to take over Guyana´s Esequibo region

    Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro in a statement underscored its historical position to not recognize the jurisdiction of the UN International Court of Justice

    The government of Venezuela aggressively rejected a ruling from the UN International Court of Justice ordering Caracas to refrain from holding elections for officials who supposedly would oversee the resource-rich disputed region of Esequibo in neighboring Guyana.

  • Friday, May 2nd 2025 - 10:15 UTC

    Trump sacks Security Adviser but proposes him for UN diplomatic job

    Discussions within the White House about a potential replacement for Mike Waltz as National Security Adviser had been ongoing for weeks

    US President Donald Trump fired National Security Adviser Mike Waltz Thursday following a scandal involving a Signal group chat that mistakenly included a journalist and revealed sensitive military plans against Houthi targets in Yemen. The March 15 incident exposed operational details, including strike timings and targets, and implicated Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Waltz's explanations were deemed inadequate, and he was criticized for poor staff vetting and ineffective foreign policy coordination.