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Montevideo, July 16th 2026 - 18:24 UTC

Politics

  • Tuesday, March 31st 2015 - 05:44 UTC

    Unions bring Argentina to a halt over income tax and promise more industrial action

    Pablo Moyano’s truckers and about 20 other unions will walk off the job Tuesday, bringing to a halt banks, public transport, garbage collection, schools

    Argentine Labor unions will carry out more strikes after a 24-hour walkout Tuesday, if the government doesn’t heed their demand for less tax pressure, a union leader said on Monday.“The measures of force are going to increase if (the government) continues with the provocations and without giving us a response to our demands,” trucker union boss Pablo Moyano said to a local radio station.

  • Monday, March 30th 2015 - 06:47 UTC

    Citibank suspended in Argentina “until it revokes agreement with Griesa and holdout funds”

    The “precautionary suspension” was ordered as CNV considered that the bank “did not act according to Argentine banking law” said Kicillof

    Economy Minister Axel Kicillof said the suspension of Citibank Argentina, ordered by the National Securities Commission (CNV) financial watchdog, will stay in place until the bank revokes its agreement not to appeal US Judge Thomas Griesa’s ruling that interest payments on Argentina's restructured local law bonds could not be processed if the bank was allowed to make two one-off payments to help it exit its local custody business.

  • Monday, March 30th 2015 - 06:32 UTC

    French local elections confirm come back of Sarkozy and containment of Marie Le Pen

    ”The French people have massively rejected the policies of (President) Francois Hollande and his government,” he told party supporters.

    The far-right National Front (FN) made only limited gains in French local elections won by ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy's conservatives. The anti-immigrant, anti-EU party is likely to have won up to 108 local council seats, from holding only one currently. But they will have too few in any one of the 102 “departements” to control any of them, updated Sunday exit polls showed.

  • Monday, March 30th 2015 - 06:20 UTC

    Cruise lines are preparing for the Cuban rush of US tourists

    European and Canadian-owned cruise lines often make stops in Havana. Tourism is already a major part of the Cuban economy

    Although U.S. tourists are still technically banned from visiting the Caribbean country, one of the world's last remaining authoritarian regimes, the process of normalizing relations between the U.S. and Cuba has the cruise industry ready to pounce, according to Maritime Link.

  • Sunday, March 29th 2015 - 09:47 UTC

    Sea Shepherd receives unexpected help in the 100-day chase of poacher

    For the past 100 days Sea Shepherd's flagship the Bob Barker has been chasing a poacher caught taking Patagonian toothfish from Australian territorial waters (Pic FB)

    One of Australia's biggest commercial fishing businesses has joined forces with militant environment group Sea Shepherd in an unheralded bid to stop pirate fishing boats. David Carter, from Perth-based Austral Fisheries, said the company was joining forces with Sea Shepherd because it wanted to lend moral support to the group's efforts to stamp out poaching.

  • Saturday, March 28th 2015 - 11:46 UTC

    Gibraltar Deputy Chief Minister lobbies Democrats and Republicans in US Congress

    Dr Garcia recalled Gibraltar has been a close ally of the US for over 200 years which dates back to the US’s first intervention overseas against the Barbary States

    Gibraltar Deputy Chief Minister Dr. Joseph Garcia highlighted the long and historic relationship between Gibraltar and the United States during a series of meetings in Washington. In a busy schedule Dr Garcia held meetings at the offices of both Democratic and Republican members of Congress on Capitol Hill.

  • Saturday, March 28th 2015 - 11:29 UTC

    British experts in sports security visited Uruguay to exchange experiences

    Ms. Storey and Mr. Galilee had the opportunity to attend a football match and to visit the Centenario Stadium, as well as other sports grounds.

    British experts in sports security visited Uruguay and shared experiences in sports security management with their counterparts. The UK delegation was made up of Sue Storey, Director of Sports and International Development, and Geoff Galilee, Sports Football Clubs Inspector of the Sports Ground Safety Authorization, SGSA.

  • Saturday, March 28th 2015 - 11:15 UTC

    Brazil just managed to skim recession last year with 0.1% growth but is expected to shrink in 2015

    The bureau said the better-than-expected 2014 results were mainly due to 0.7% growth in the services sector and a 0.4% rise in the agribusiness sector.

    Brazil's economy grew just 0.1% last year, barely keeping the country out of a recession, the government's statistics bureau said on Friday. It was the worst result since 2009 and bad news for President Dilma Rousseff, whose popularity has plummeted along with Brazil's economic performance.

  • Saturday, March 28th 2015 - 10:21 UTC

    HMS Lancaster takes over from HMS Dragon in South Atlantic patrol tasking

    “In many ways it’s a ground-breaking deployment for the Royal Navy, as we are taking new capabilities and equipment on operations for the first time”, said Commander Laughton

    Type 23 frigate HMS Lancaster sailed from her home in Portsmouth last week for a routine nine-month Atlantic patrol tasking, which includes the Falklands and South Georgia. She is the first ship in the Royal Navy to deploy with the new Wildcat helicopter, and her crew are wearing the newest naval uniform in 70 years.

  • Saturday, March 28th 2015 - 09:47 UTC

    Falklands' conflict hypothesis: Argentine Mirages are banned from flying on cloudy days

    “We have no conflict hypothesis. We are programmed for a defense policy based on the development of our capabilities”, said Rossi

    The Argentine government and media agree that the country does not have the military capacity to attack the Falkland Islands as feared by Britain. A report in daily La Nacion points out the Argentine armed forces lack landing crafts, troop transport vessels and even the Mirage fighter planes are banned from flying on cloudy days because of repeated problems with their instruments.