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Montevideo, August 1st 2025 - 23:10 UTC

Politics

  • Monday, July 8th 2024 - 07:35 UTC

    Mercosur not going through the best of times ahead of Asunción Summit

    Peña will be handing over the pro-tempore presidency of the bloc to Uruguay's Luis Lacalle Pou

    Paraguayan President Santiago Peña admitted that the Southern Common Market (Mercosur) was not going through the best of times as he prepared to host the bloc's Summit in Asunción Monday during which he is to hand over the grou's rotating presidency to Uruguay's Luis Lacalle Pou.

  • Monday, July 8th 2024 - 07:30 UTC

    PM Starmer's commitment with the Falkland Islands

    Richard Hyslop, head of FIGO, MLA Mark Pollard, Keir Starmer, MLA John Birmingham and Michael Betts, FIGO staff

    Every year the Falkland Islands elected Legislative Assembly sends two of its members to the round of United Kingdom political parties conferences, mainly Conservatives, Labour, Liberal Democrats and the Scottish National Party, held in UK to strongly lobby for the Islands.

  • Monday, July 8th 2024 - 07:30 UTC

    Milei attends conservative gathering with the Bolsonaros

    The Argentine president is due back in his country Monday, thus skipping the Mercosur Summit in Asunción

    Instead of attending Monday's Mercosur Summit in Asunción, Argentine President Javier Milei chose to spend the weekend in southern Brazil with his friends the Bolsonaros, including the former head of state Jair, with whom he watched their national team eliminated from the Copa America by Uruguay on penalties on Saturday.

  • Saturday, July 6th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

    Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is on the job and Saturday will hold his first cabinet meeting

    PM Keir Starmer and “First Lady” Victoria Alexander

    Sir Keir Starmer's new cabinet will meet for the first time on Saturday morning - the first full day of Labour being in power, points out a BBC report. Rachel Reeves is the UK's first female chancellor, while Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner is also among a record 11 women in the team of 25. Sir Keir appointed his cabinet on Friday after Labor's landslide election win, and in his first speech as PM said the work of change “begins immediately”.

  • Saturday, July 6th 2024 - 10:31 UTC

    Argentina: No love lost between Macri and Bullrich

    Bullrichists are not leaving the PRO but rather preparing for next year's primaries against the Macrists

    There seems to be no love lost between former Argentine President Mauricio Macri (2015-2019) and Security Minister Patricia Bullrich after Thursday's events at the Propuesta Republicana (PRO) Party Assembly the latter was supposed to chair but was sidelined. The rift between Macri and Bullrich has been going on for months, it was also reported in Buenos Aires.

  • Saturday, July 6th 2024 - 10:25 UTC

    Argentines fairing worse off under Milei, study finds

    Having a job does not mean getting out of poverty in Argentina

    Studies published this week corroborate that Argentines are fairing worse off under President Javier Milei, with people sinking into poverty despite having formal jobs which showed in a dwindling consumption of red meat, among other items, in a country that used to top the world's lists.

  • Saturday, July 6th 2024 - 08:28 UTC

    Pezeshkian becomes Iran's new President-elect

    Pezeshkian has been critical on the veil imposed on women and is expected to seek a rapprochement to the West

    Heart surgeon and former Health Minister Masoud Pezeshkian has been confirmed Saturday as the winner of Iran's presidential election. The 69-year-old Reformist politician is expected to open up the country after seizing 53.6 % of the vote against the ultraconservative Saeed Jalili's 44.3 % amid a 49.9% turnout.

  • Saturday, July 6th 2024 - 07:26 UTC

    Falklands Legislative Assembly congratulates new UK Government

    The elected Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly extends its congratulations to the Labour Party on their victory in the UK General Election. We also extend our congratulations to The Right Honorable Sir Keir Starmer on his election as an MP, and subsequent appointment this as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom by His Majesty The King Charles III.

  • Friday, July 5th 2024 - 18:42 UTC

    Starmer goes through “kissing of the hands” and forms new UK gov't

    Starmer praised his predecessor for being the first Asian person to hold such a high office

    Sir Keir Starmer was sworn in Friday as the UK’s new prime minister in lieu of the Conservative Rishi Sunak who turned in his resignation following Thursday's appalling electoral defeat earning Labour at least 412 of the 650 seats in Parliament.

  • Friday, July 5th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

    UKs Labour wins with a huge majority; Tories in disarray lose votes to Reform, Liberals and Greens

    Labour leader Keir Starmer delivered a victory speech in London as the voting confirmed that he will be the next prime minister of the U.K.

    U.K.’s Labour Party is on course to win a huge parliamentary majority in the country’s general election, putting an end to 14 years of Conservative governments. Labour is forecasted to have a majority of 166 seats in the House of Commons.