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Montevideo, November 9th 2025 - 20:52 UTC

Politics

  • Friday, November 22nd 2024 - 10:53 UTC

    Milei regrets ICC's measure against Netanyahu

    Israel has an ally in Argentina, insisted Milei

    Argentine President Javier Milei Thursday expressed his “profound disagreement” with the arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. In the Libertarian leader's view, the ruling “distorts the spirit of international justice.”

  • Friday, November 22nd 2024 - 10:39 UTC

    PM Starmer and Brazil’s Lula da Silva announce Joint Statement to accelerate global green power transition

    UK Prime Minister Starmer is received by President Lula da Silva on arrival at the G20 summit held in Rio do Janeiro

    The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Sir Keir Starmer, and the President of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, met in the margins of the G20 Leaders’ Summit in Rio de Janeiro to discuss the UK-Brazil relationship and to announce new areas of cooperation in a Joint Statement

  • Friday, November 22nd 2024 - 10:27 UTC

    Gibraltar Chief Minister first formal bilateral meeting with IK PM Starmer

    Chief Minister Picardo and Falklands MLA Roger Spink among the OTs representatives at the JMC with Overseas Territories Minister Stephen Doughty MP

    Gibraltar Chief Minister Fabian Picardo held his first formal bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Thursday. The ongoing negotiations for a UK - EU Gibraltar agreement and support for Gibraltar were the main issues discussed.

  • Friday, November 22nd 2024 - 10:20 UTC

    Praise for Milei’s stabilization program: IDB approves 2 billion dollars in loans for Argentina

    The loans will assist the country in key measures to strengthen public finances, energy sector sustainability, and child development

    The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Executive Board approved four operations, totaling over 2 billion US dollars to support Argentina's strategy to promote fiscal sustainability and lay the groundwork for sustainable and equitable growth. The loans will assist the country in key measures to strengthen public finances, energy sector sustainability, and child development. Additionally, the IDB will support the City of Buenos Aires in improving access to public health services.

  • Friday, November 22nd 2024 - 10:13 UTC

    Argentine Air Force Chief sacked for improper conduct

    Mengo allegedly used Air Force resources for personal purposes and is also suspected of sexual harassment

    Argentina's Defense Minister Luis Petri Thursday sacked Air Force Chief of Staff Brigadier Fernando Luis Mengo for allegedly using State resources for personal purposes. Mengo allegedly used Air Force aircraft to transport his partner between Paraná and Buenos Aires. In addition, he is facing complaints of sexual harassment.

  • Friday, November 22nd 2024 - 10:02 UTC

    Brazil issues apology to black population for slavery

    Efforts must be made to combat racial discrimination, Messias said

    The Brazilian Government of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Thursday issued an apology to the black population for subjecting their ancestors to slavery, which still has consequences in modern-day society. In his message, Attorney General Jorge Messias underlined the need to combat racial discrimination.

  • Friday, November 22nd 2024 - 09:20 UTC

    Pope Francis wants South Atlantic to remain a region of peace

    Mayor Pérez held an interesting talk with the “Pope from the End of the World” regarding the South Atlantic's importance

    Pope Francis, the Argentine-born leader of the Catholic Church, urged Rio Grande Mayor Martín Pérez Wednesday in a private audience to defend with “much strength” the sovereignty of the South Atlantic and continue “working for peace” in that area, it was reported Thursday. The Pontiff highlighted the region's fundamental role in the “balance of the Common Home.”

  • Friday, November 22nd 2024 - 08:47 UTC

    The grand finale for JMC 2024, with PM Starmer and King Charles

    King Charles III and Camila at the Diplomatic Corps Reception

    It was a grand finale for the two days Joint Ministerial Council held in London between the democratic representatives from Britain’s Overseas Territories and the new UK government’s cabinet ministers, chaired by Foreign minister Stephen Doughty. In effect, Prime Minister Keir Starmer addressed the group at the end of the event, reaffirming his government’s commitment to the OTs and the principle, “nothing about you, without you”. The Prime Minister also mentioned the Falkland Islands, when remembering his family’s despair during the 1982 war, after HMS Antilope went down with much loss of lives, and hours later it was reported that Starmer’s mother brother, miraculously survived.

  • Thursday, November 21st 2024 - 20:08 UTC

    Brazilian army officers arrested for planning to kill Lula

    Sleuths found evidence regarding the plan by the military to poison Lula and eliminate Alckmin and De Moraes

    Five Brazilian Army officers were arrested this week in connection with their involvement in Operation Green and Yellow Dagger, an alleged plan to kill then-President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in 2022. The strategy also included taking down Vice President-elect Geraldo Alckmin and Supreme Federal Court (STF) Justice Alexandre De Moraes.

  • Thursday, November 21st 2024 - 19:38 UTC

    French supermarket chain to halt sales of Mercosur meat to boycott FTA

    Mercosur meat might “flood the French market with meat that does not meet its requirements and standards,” Carrefour's CEO feared

    Carrefour CEO Alexandre Bompard announced this week that his company would not be selling meat imported from the Southern Common Market (Mercosur) in a move to prevent the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the European Union from pulling through. France's largest supermarket planned on suspending meat imports from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay “in solidarity with the agricultural sector.”