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Montevideo, September 2nd 2026 - 18:16 UTC

Politics

  • Monday, August 24th 2015 - 09:35 UTC

    Mafia boss funeral of “King of Rome” reveals close links with city officials

    Banners outside the San Giovanni Bosco church on the city's outskirts described him as the “King of Rome”.

    The funeral of an alleged mafia boss in Rome has sparked anger after a lavish cortege with black-plumed horses, petals dropped from a helicopter and the theme tune from The Godfather. Italian politicians denounced the ostentatious send-off for Vittorio Casamonica, 65.

  • Monday, August 24th 2015 - 09:13 UTC

    Carlitos Tevez shocked with poverty, causes an uproar in Argentina

    The former Manchester City striker triggered controversy on his description of poverty conditions in the northern province of Formosa

    The Argentine football star Carlos Tevez, who played in England, Italy and is now back in Argentina caused a major uproar when during a television interview he said that in the northern province of Formosa he had come across poor people who were literally 'dead hungry'.

  • Monday, August 24th 2015 - 08:54 UTC

    Pope Francis and the Malvinas

    Francis’s generosity of word and openness has also made him an easy target for those who want to try and use his global popularity to push a particular cause

    By Jimmy Burns - The snapped moment of encounter projected fast and globally on the world wide web has become as much as a characteristic of the Francis papacy, as his twitter account @pontifex. This is a papacy with a charismatic personality and instinctive communicator at its helm. It is also a papacy advised by media specialists and diplomats that know something about the opportunity offered by the digital age to spread a message with an impact that would have inconceivable just a few years ago.

  • Saturday, August 22nd 2015 - 07:56 UTC

    Prosecution requests impeachment of Guatemala president Otto Perez

    Prosecution said that the ongoing investigation over a customs fraud operation, “La Linea,” revealed a strong likelihood that Perez Molina was involved

    Guatemala’s prosecutor’s office said Friday that it has requested the Supreme Court's permission to start an impeachment process for President Otto Perez Molina over a sprawling corruption case that has held the country in the grip of political turmoil for months. The move came hours after the former vice president was placed under arrest for her own alleged role in the scandal.

  • Saturday, August 22nd 2015 - 02:46 UTC

    Falklands' retail price index down to 0.3% in first half on lower fuel and power costs

    The lower RPI is mainly as result in decreases in heating fuel, kerosene of (1.04%) and electricity by (0.30%).

    The Falklands' Retail Price Index for the quarter ending June 30, 2015 decreased by 0.8%, meaning that the annual Retail Price Index (RPI) as at the end of June was 0.3%, helped by lower prices of fuel and power.

  • Friday, August 21st 2015 - 11:35 UTC

    Royal Navy's third Astute Class attack submarine ready for sea trials

    Artful can circumnavigate the world submerged, manufacturing the crew’s oxygen and fresh water from seawater as they go.

    Artful, the third of the U.K. Royal Navy’s new Astute Class attack submarines, has arrived at her Scottish base port from where she will carry out sea trials before entering service later this year, the U.K. Ministry of Defense announced.

  • Friday, August 21st 2015 - 07:49 UTC

    Merkel calls for a free trade accord between the Europe Union and Mercosur

    “We could broaden our trade. We need reliable investment conditions”, said Merkel as she pressed for better access to Brazilian markets

    German Chancellor Angela Merkel pressed Brazil's government on Thursday to further open its markets to foreign companies, and said she saw an opportunity to reach a free-trade deal between the European Union and the Mercosur trade bloc. Merkel is on a two-day visit to Brazil with a large delegation of government officials and representatives from German companies.

  • Friday, August 21st 2015 - 07:41 UTC

    Rousseff admits a year of recession because of 'massive economic difficulties”

    “The process of falling commodity prices due to adjustment in China will continue to burden the global economy for a long time” said Rousseff

    A slump in commodity markets will burden the global economy for some time to come, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff told Germany's Handelsblatt business daily, adding she hoped the Brazilian economy would pick up in a year.

  • Friday, August 21st 2015 - 07:27 UTC

    Pro-Rousseff march turnout no match for Sunday's antigovernment protest

    Organizers said some 172,000 people turned out around the country in more than two dozen cities. Police 70.000 in Rio and 40.000 in Sao Paulo

    Brazil unions and left groups staged a string of protests in a show of support for President Dilma Rousseff, although turnout was markedly lower than at massive anti-government rallies over the weekend. The protests hit back at the growing push to impeach Rousseff, who less than a year into her second term is struggling for political survival.

  • Friday, August 21st 2015 - 06:57 UTC

    Brazil's July unemployment up for a seventh straight month

    Unemployment has risen without interruption from a record low of 4.3% in December, pushed up by hundreds of thousands of layoffs in manufacturing

    Brazil's unemployment rate rose for a seventh straight month in July to the highest in over five years, government data showed on Thursday. The non-seasonally adjusted jobless rate rose in July to 7.5% from 6.9% in June, statistics agency IBGE said.