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Montevideo, July 21st 2025 - 20:08 UTC

Politics

  • Saturday, November 16th 2024 - 11:07 UTC

    British ambassador presents diplomatic credentials to Uruguayan president

    Ambassador Green with president Lacalle Pou

    The new British ambassador in Uruguay, Malcolm Green presented his diplomatic credentials to the Uruguayan president Luis Lacalle Pou on Thursday 14 November, completing the formalities of his post.

  • Saturday, November 16th 2024 - 10:59 UTC

    Argentina: Arrest warrants issued against 61 Brasilia rioters

    The extradition requests were filed through diplomatic channels on behalf of De Moraes

    Buenos Aires Federal Judge Daniel Rafecas issued arrest warrants for 61 suspects involved in the Jan. 8, 2023, riots in Brasilia, who had sought shelter in the neighboring country, Agencia Brasil reported. Rafecas' measure is the result of the extradition requests filed by Brazilian diplomatic authorities on behalf of case rapporteur Supreme Federal Court (STF) Justice Alexandre De Moraes.

  • Saturday, November 16th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

    HMS Protector with Chilean navy paid homage to British losses at battle of Colonel, November 1914

    Chilean navy personnel and HMS Protector crew members at the Colonel battle memorial

    Crew members Sailors from Ice Patrol HMS Protector, A173, and their Chilean allies paid homage to British sailors lost in one of the first great naval actions of World War 1. One hundred and ten years to the day that the Royal and German Navies clashed three dozen miles off the coast of Chile, the icebreaker ship’s crew joined Chilean sailors for a service of remembrance in the city which gave the battle its name: Coronel.

  • Saturday, November 16th 2024 - 10:35 UTC

    Boluarte and Boric hold meeting during APEC

    Boric and Boluarte met at a time when Chile and Peru celebrated 202 years of bilateral ties

    Presidents Dina Boluarte Zegarra of Peru and Gabriel Boric Font of Chile held a meeting Friday in Lima in the context of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders' meeting to celebrate the 202nd anniversary of diplomatic ties between the two countries, and discuss the support to vulnerable populations, SMEs, as well as bilateral trade and other common challenges.

  • Saturday, November 16th 2024 - 10:30 UTC

    Venezuelan ambassador returns to Brasilia

    Vadell resuming his functions ended the diplomatic dispute between the two countries after Brazil's veto to the Chavista country joining BRICS

    Venezuela's Ambassador to Brazil Manuel Vadell returned to Brasilia on Thursday after two weeks in Caracas for consultations, thus ending the diplomatic crisis between the two countries. The diplomat announced this move through a video published on social networks. He had been summoned to Venezuela on Oct. 30, after Nicolás Maduro's regime said that statements by Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's Foreign Affairs Advisor Celso Amorim were “interfering and rude.”

  • Saturday, November 16th 2024 - 10:25 UTC

    Monsalve will remain in custody until Tuesday's hearing

    Monsalve will remain in custody until Tuesday's hearing

    A judge in Santiago Friday adjourned until next Tuesday the arraignment hearing of former Interior Undersecretary Manuel Monsalve, who has been charged with allegedly raping a member of his staff. Whether he would also be held accountable for the abuse of power he is believed to have exerted to conceal the facts is to be decided at another stage. In the meantime, Monsalve will remain in custody at an Investigative Police (PDI) detention facility after being arrested on Thursday at his Viña del Mar home.

  • Saturday, November 16th 2024 - 09:01 UTC

    Falklands remembers losses at the battle of Coronel

    A poppy wreath hangs from the memorial tablet of those lost on November first 1914 from HMS Good Hope and HMS Monmouth.

    The Falkland Islands also remembers those involved in the naval battle of Coronel off the coast of Chile with the loss of 1,600 lives. In effect a memorial tablet is dedicated in Stanley’s cathedral to Rear Admiral Christopher Cradock and the Officers, Warrant Officers and Men of HMS Good Hope and HMS Monmouth lost at Colonel on 1 November 1914.

  • Saturday, November 16th 2024 - 04:54 UTC

    Falklands launches first telecommunication survey, large response is expected

    The survey is an essential part of information gathering, giving FIG and Cambridge MC solid data to work from in making recommendations to Executive Council

    The Falkland Islands Government (FIG) is asking businesses, charities, and residents of the Falklands to take part in a telecommunications survey, which is being run in conjunction with Cambridge Management Consulting (Cambridge MC).

  • Friday, November 15th 2024 - 11:23 UTC

    Falkland Islands celebrates the birthday of His Majesty King Charles III

    The King’s birthday is a public holiday in the Falkland Islands.<br /> <br />

    On behalf of the people of the Falkland Islands, the Members of the Legislative Assembly wish to extend our warmest congratulations to His Majesty King Charles III on the occasion of His 76th birthday, Thursday 14 November.

  • Friday, November 15th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

    France wants Mercosur-EU deal not signed

    France will do its utmost to prevent such an agreement from being signed, Armand was quoted as saying

    France will not be signing a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the European Union and the Southern Common Market (Mercosur), the Russian news service Sputnik reported Thursday. In fact, Paris will do its utmost to block it.