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Montevideo, December 5th 2025 - 02:49 UTC

International

  • Tuesday, February 4th 2025 - 04:51 UTC

    Virgin Islands premier elected as president of UK Oversea Territories Association

    Premier of the Virgin Islands, Honorable Dr. Natalio Wheatley and Tracy Bradshaw, Chair of UKOTA

    Premier of the Virgin Islands, Honorable Dr. Natalio Wheatley, has been elected President of the UK Overseas Territories Association (UKOTA) and will also serve as President of the Political Council.

  • Monday, February 3rd 2025 - 19:28 UTC

    US tariffs on Mexico on hold after deal between Trump and Sheinbaum

    Trump was to speak later Monday with Trudeau. Hence, a similar measure in the Canadian case was not to be ruled out

    US President Doland Trump agreed Monday to put on hold for at least a month his decision to impose 25% tariffs on Mexican products after a conversation with his colleague Claudia Sheinbaum, during which new conditions were agreed upon.

  • Monday, February 3rd 2025 - 10:50 UTC

    Baroness Chapman at RUSI, UK committed to defend Falkland Islanders right to self-determination

    The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Latin America and Caribbean, during her recent visit to Punta Arenas to honor Chilean mariners

    “Only the Falkland Islanders can and should decide their own future. Our position regarding the Falkland Islands is steadfast, and our commitment to defending the Falkland Islanders right to self-determination will not waiver.”

  • Monday, February 3rd 2025 - 10:40 UTC

    Trump signs 25% tariffs on Mexican and Canadian goods

    Trump declared a trade war between the US on one side, and China, Mexico, and Canada on the other, with the EU seemingly next in line

    US President Donald Trump on Saturday signed the documents imposing a 25% tariff on Mexican and most Canadian goods and a 10% tariff on Canadian energy products and Chinese goods. The target countries announced retaliatory initiatives. The reciprocal import/export taxation will become effective Feb. 4.

  • Monday, February 3rd 2025 - 07:38 UTC

    Trump's tariffs already have repercussions in Japan

    Trump's economic plans might impact the exchange rate between the US dollar and the yen

    Hours after US President Donald Trump announced the imposition of 25% tariffs on Mexican and Canadian products, the Nikkei index in Tokyo, which groups together the 225 most representative stocks in the market, plummeted by 2.5%. The White House measures over the weekend impacted the Japanese capital early Monday morning.

  • Saturday, February 1st 2025 - 10:00 UTC

    Paraguayan President describes importance of trade openness in speech at WTO

    Peña is to stay in Switzerland until Sunday

    Paraguayan President Santiago Peña Friday underlined the importance of trade openness and multilateralism during his speech at the World Trade Organization's (WTO) headquarters in Geneva. Peña highlighted “the importance of global integration to strengthen trade and resilience in the face of uncertainty,” the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MIC) said in a statement.

  • Saturday, February 1st 2025 - 08:16 UTC

    Released British-Israeli soldier discusses plight with PM Starmer

    Damari told Starmer she had been kept at various UNRWA facilities

    Emily Damari, the Israeli soldier who grew up in south-east London and was taken hostage by the terrorist organization Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023, spoke Friday on the telephone with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, whom she told about her ordeal. Upon her release, she made headlines worldwide for having lost two fingers and because her sexual orientation (lesbian) had been kept from public knowledge to avoid further damage from her captors.

  • Saturday, February 1st 2025 - 08:13 UTC

    BAS studies whales and fish to protect South Georgia marine ecosystem

    Humpback whales migrate south to South Georgia. Image: Fredrik Christiansen

    British Antarctic Survey scientists on the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia are working to better understand the rich marine life that inhabits the region. This month teams are focusing on two major projects: one on whales and their consumption of krill (a shrimp-like creature that’s abundant in the Southern Ocean), and another on populations of bottom-dwelling fish. Their findings will help ensure the long-term health of the region’s ocean ecosystem and support sustainable fisheries.

  • Friday, January 31st 2025 - 09:24 UTC

    Swiss minister tells Peña her country interested in dealing with Mercosur

    Switzerland “has many companies that are interested in investing worldwide,” Budlinger explained

    Switzerland's Secretary of State for Economic Affairs Helen Budlinger told Paraguayan President Santiago Peña that her country was interested in expanding businesses with Asunción and with all of the Southern Common Market (Mercosur). She made those remarks Thursday as she welcomed Peña to the non-European Union nation which thus covets a separate Free Trade Agreement (FTA).

  • Friday, January 31st 2025 - 08:34 UTC

    Venezuela: Israel's FM says his country supports González Urrutia

    Venezuela will be an ally of all the world's democracies once Maduro is toppled, Machado told Sa'ar (R)

    Israel's Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar Thursday told Venezuelan opposition leaders Edmundo González Urrutia and María Corina Machado that the Middle East country had its South American counterpart's freedom in mind: “Venezuela shall be free,” Sa'ar insisted during a telephone conversation. He also invited the man most Western nations recognize as the legitimate winner of the controversial July 28, 2024, elections to visit Israel shortly.