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Montevideo, July 20th 2025 - 20:37 UTC

Politics

  • Tuesday, December 3rd 2024 - 09:17 UTC

    Argentine Senator wants federal intervention in his province

    Paoltroni insisted Formosa was not an isolated case of authoritarianism

    Argentine Senator Francisco Paoltroni went to Casa Rosada Monday to deliver a draft bill to President Javier Milei to impose a federal intervention in the province of Formosa and put an end to the neverending rule of Peronist Governor Gildo Insfran, who has turned the territory into virtually his private ranch: “There is no other institutional way”, the national lawmaker from Formosa explained through social media.

  • 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 - 10:12 UTC

    Milei pushes for trade flexibility at Mercosur Summit, eyes U.S. agreement

    Milei’s push for individual trade autonomy aligns with Lacalle Pou’s vision

    Argentine President Javier Milei will attend the Mercosur summit in Montevideo on December 5-6, advocating for the bloc’s members to gain the freedom to sign independent trade agreements. This marks a departure from Mercosur’s traditional collective bargaining stance but stops short of proposing an exit from the bloc.

  • 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 - 09:42 UTC

    Biden pardons son on arm and tax evasion charges

    Biden claimed he was targeted vicariously through his son and therefore the pardon was justified

    Backtracking on his own words, US President Joseph Biden Sunday announced he had pardoned his son Hunter on two criminal charges, claiming they were politically motivated.

  • 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 - 23:21 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.

  • Sunday, December 1st 2024 - 21:25 UTC

    Battle of Falklands, commemoration of the 110th anniversary of the great naval engagement of 8 December 1914

    The Memorial to the naval Battle of the Falklands in Stanley

    Next Sunday, the 8th December 2024, the Falkland Islands commemorate the 110th anniversary of the first great victory of the Royal Navy in the First World War. The Falklands naval engagement took place to the south east of the Islands, chasing and sinking the pride of the German Imperial Navy, the East Asia squadron led by Admiral Graf von Spee.

  • Saturday, November 30th 2024 - 10:46 UTC

    Posters of VP Villarruel rekindle feud with Milei

    It is yet unknown who was behind the stunt that did shake Buenos Aires' political waters

    Buenos Aires dawned Friday with posters of Vice President Victoria Villarruel apparently launching a political movement of her own, which further stirred the political momentum amid tensions between her and President Javier Milei. The phenomenon sparked a series of accusations as to who was behind the initiative, of which the Senate Speaker's Office denied any knowledge.

  • 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.