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Montevideo, November 6th 2025 - 12:18 UTC

Politics

  • Tuesday, April 29th 2025 - 10:53 UTC

    Canada: Carney's Liberals win elections, but will they form a majority gov't?

    Trump will never own us, Carney said (Pic EFE)

    Prime Minister Mark Carney's Liberal Party won Canada's federal election securing a fourth consecutive term, though it remains unclear if they achieved a majority government requiring 172 seats or will form a minority government reliant on other parties.

  • Tuesday, April 29th 2025 - 10:34 UTC

    Bolivian journalists against censorship

    “We ratify our unwavering commitment to the defense of citizens' rights and democracy in Bolivia,” the journalists' guild stressed

    The National Association of Journalists of Bolivia (ANPB) and nine departmental journalist associations have rejected Congressional Bill No. 007/2024-2025, titled “Integrity and Public Ethics in Electoral Processes,” currently under review in the Bolivian Senate. Senator Silvia Salame's initiative is criticized for introducing covert censorship and control over media under the guise of ensuring electoral integrity.

  • Tuesday, April 29th 2025 - 10:17 UTC

    Two Uruguayans held under slave-like conditions rescued in Brazil

    The man had been working for nine years as a domestic employee and was forced to tattoo his employers' initials as a mark of ownership.

    Two Uruguayans, a homosexual man and a trans woman, were rescued in Planura, in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, after years of slave-like conditions. Lured via social media with false job promises, they endured physical, sexual, and psychological abuse, including forced tattoos of their employers' initials. The man worked unregistered for nine years, while the trans woman, held for six months, suffered a stroke.

  • Tuesday, April 29th 2025 - 09:52 UTC

    Argentina releases Nazi-related documents online

    Mengele entered Argentina in 1949 under the name of Gregor Helmut. In 1956 he submitted his legalized birth certificate

    Argentina's General Archives (AGN) made available some 1,850 documents regarding Nazi activities in the country, including the presence of Josef Mengele, Erich Priebke and Adolf Eichmann. These files can now be accessed online at argentina.gob.ar/interior/archivo-general and include intelligence reports, photographs, and police records. Until now, the documents could only be accessed on site at the AGN headquarters.

  • Tuesday, April 29th 2025 - 07:15 UTC

    Falklands, 3 Battalion Parachute Regiment is the new Roulement Infantry Company

    Two Gurkhas in the folding flag ceremony, half lengthwise, and then diagonally, creating a triangular shape and finally into a rectangular shape. (Pic BFSAI)

    Deployment at Mount Pleasant Complex, the Royal Gurkha Rifles have handed over to 3 Battalion, The Parachute Regiment, as the Roulement Infantry Company at the Falkland Islands MPC.

  • Monday, April 28th 2025 - 20:57 UTC

    At least 35 gang members gunned down in Haiti

    Six police officers and five members of the Canapé-Vert vigilante group also died

    At least 35 members of the gang Viv Ansanm were gunned down by Haitian law enforcement, and 40 others were wounded, last week in a violent clash in the Port-au-Prince suburb of Pacot, the National Network for the Defense of Human Rights (RNDDH) reported. In addition, six Haitian National Police (PNH) officers and five fighters of the Canapé-Vert vigilante brigades fell in combat.

  • Monday, April 28th 2025 - 14:49 UTC

    Mass power outage hits large parts of Europe

    Spanish and Portuguese authorities are holding emergency meetings to solve the crisis.

    A massive power outage struck the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal) and has also affected Spain, Portugal, and some regions in France, Italy, and the UK, disrupting critical infrastructure including public transport, airports, telecommunications, and traffic systems.

  • Monday, April 28th 2025 - 10:55 UTC

    IMF tightens the reins on Colombia

    Petro calls Georgieva “a vampire”

    Colombian President Gustavo Petro said the International Monetary Fund (IMF) authorities were “vampires” who suspended his country's access to a US$ 8.1 billion flexible credit line on Saturday.

  • Monday, April 28th 2025 - 10:45 UTC

    Milei returns to BA after lunch with Meloni

    While attending the Pope's funeral, Milei had lunch with Meloni but almost no contact with any other world leader except Macron

    During his stay in Rome for Pope Francis' funeral, Argentine President Javier Milei had lunch with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and interacted briefly with other leaders such as French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte, but had no direct contact with US President Donald Trump, who had other priorities, like talking to Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky.

  • Monday, April 28th 2025 - 10:32 UTC

    Bolivia and Chile boost diplomatic ties

    BoA will fly between Santa Cruz and Santiago twice a week with a stopover in Iquique

    Bolivia and Chile agreed during a ceremony Saturday at Viru Viru airport in Santa Cruz on mutual exemption of visas and residence permits for holders of diplomatic and official passports. The event took place as the first Boliviana de Aviación to Santiago -with a stopover in Iquique- was to depart.