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Montevideo, November 10th 2025 - 03:30 UTC

Politics

  • Monday, October 21st 2024 - 15:05 UTC

    Boric's approval ratings sink after Monsalve scandal

    Boric's latest ratings matched those he achieved in early May after the murder of the three Carabineros officers

    Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font's approval ratings fell sharply, according to a survey by pollsters Cadem Plaza Pública released in Santiago during the weekend. The head of state was found to only have a 27% positive image after the sex scandal involving former Interior Undersecretary Manuel Monsalve, who resigned days after the case against him was filed and only when he failed to keep it from public knowledge.

  • Monday, October 21st 2024 - 10:56 UTC

    Uruguay: Mujica makes last public political appearance

    ”No to hatred and confrontation, we must work for hope”, former guerrilla leader Mujica also stressed

    Battling esophageal cancer and age, former Uruguayan President José “Pepe” Mujica made what is believed to be his last public appearance this past weekend by showing up at a rally of “La 609” or MPP, the Broad Front (FA) faction he once founded. “Goodbye, I give you my heart,” Mujica stressed on Saturday during a campaign closing event a week before the Oct. 27 elections.

  • Monday, October 21st 2024 - 09:01 UTC

    Petro lashes out at 21st Century “slavers” who cry “freedom”

    “It is fundamental today to change debt for climate action,” Petro insisted

    Colombian President Gustavo Petro Sunday lashed out at those he dubbed “slavers” who cry “freedom” but “take human beings and living beings to the market for sale.” The leftwing leader also pointed out during the opening ceremony of the 16th United Nations Conference on Biodiversity (COP-16) in Cali that “the buyer is a specter of death.”

  • Monday, October 21st 2024 - 08:52 UTC

    Italy's Albania deal for irregular migrants fails as judges rule against detention of the asylum seekers

    The Italian coast guard vessel that took the illegal migrants back to Brindisi

    The UK Boris Johnson solution to address migrants trying to illegally cross to Britain, which was to be implemented through the so-called Rwanda deal but was rejected by the EU and UK courts, did not impede Italy from attempting a similar procedure with neighboring Albania, where migrants wanting to reach Italy were to be screened before any final decision was taken.

  • Monday, October 21st 2024 - 08:50 UTC

    UN Fourth Committee, UK reaffirms principle of self determination of BOTs, as enshrined in the UN charter

    We are committed to supporting requests for removal from UN's list of non-self-governing territories from those Territories whose permanent populations so wish.

    UK Ambassador Archie Young to the General Assembly at the UN Fourth Committee, explains the UK position regarding principles of equal rights and self-determination:

  • Monday, October 21st 2024 - 08:47 UTC

    UK Parliament to discuss new legislation for the Fisheries Management Plans

    The introduction of minimum conservation reference sizes (MCRS) for lemon sole (250mm), turbot (300mm), and brill (300mm) in the English waters

    New legislation implementing a range of short-term management measures for certain fish species was introduced to Parliament last week. These new arrangements have been identified within the first Fisheries Management Plans (FMP) as a priority to help provide additional protection to vulnerable stocks.

  • Monday, October 21st 2024 - 08:37 UTC

    The Tory “Rwanda migrants-deportation” deal turns into a Labour 'St Helena deal'

    Boat people attempting to cross the English Channel

    Before the UK Boris Johnson administration finally struck the “Rwanda” deal to deport migrants and/or boat people crossing the English channel from the continent, (plus a generous donation of over £ 100 million for 'development'), some of the possible places considered even included the Falkland Islands, but the suggestion did not prosper.

  • Monday, October 21st 2024 - 08:33 UTC

    Falklands MPA, German Lufthansa Airbus scheduled to arrive March 2025

    The Lufthansa A350 at MPA back in 2021

    A German airline Lufthansa aircraft is scheduled to land at Mount Pleasant Airport, Falkland Islands, next March, according to the air business site AeroRoutes. When this happens, it will be the second time a Lufthansa aircraft has landed at MPA.

  • Monday, October 21st 2024 - 08:15 UTC

    González Urrutia treated by Venezuelan physician in Spain

    “I was also moved to think that the talent of my fellow countryman was in exile like millions, like me,” González Urrutia reckoned

    Retired Venezuelan diplomat Edmundo González Urrutia, whom many consider to be president-elect after the July 28 polls in which Caracas' National Electoral Committee (CNE) said without producing any corroborating evidence that the incumbent Nicolás Maduro had been the winner for the 2025-2031 period, suffered a fall this past weekend while he was in exile in Spain, for which he was treated by a countryman physician also fleeing the Bolivarian regime.

  • Sunday, October 20th 2024 - 15:46 UTC

    Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust chair to step down

    Donald Lamont former Ambassador in Uruguay and former GovernorFalkland Islands

    Donald Lamont, long-serving Chair of the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust board of Trustees is retiring from his roles as chairman and Trustee. He will relinquish his role as chairman on 21st October 2024 and will resign as a Trustee on 4th November 2024.