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Montevideo, November 11th 2025 - 06:32 UTC

Politics

  • Saturday, June 1st 2024 - 10:00 UTC

    New Gibraltar governor arrives Tuesday and in the afternoon is sworn in

    Sir Ben and Lady Bathurst will arrive outside Parliament at 1450hrs and met by the Commissioner of Police who will invite the Governor to inspect an RGP Guard of Honor

    The next governor of the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar, Lieutenant General Sir Ben and Lady Bathurst is scheduled to arrive will at the Rock next Tuesday 4th June on the 1100hrs British Airways flight from Heathrow.

  • Saturday, June 1st 2024 - 09:30 UTC

    Falklands lawmaker visits friendly Caribbean nation, Trinidad and Tobago

    MLA Teslyn Barkman at an aquaculture unit from the Ministry of Agriculture

    Member of the Legislative Assembly of the Falkland Islands, MLA Teslyn Barkman, made an official visit to Trinidad and Tobago from 22-23 May. Fresh from her presentation at the Regional Seminar of the Decolonization Committee held mid-May in Venezuela, and later visits to Caribbean nations, ahead of the main C24 meeting in New York in June,

  • Friday, May 31st 2024 - 21:19 UTC

    Porto Alegre's metro runs again after unprecedented floods

    Capacity and service length have been reduced out of security concerns pending full repairs

    Urban trains in Porto Alegre resumed operations this week, albeit on shortened routes, as the capital city of the Brazilian State of Rio Grande do Sul slowly recovers from the unprecedented floods caused by rains way above average, Agencia Brasil reported. Convoy capacity was also cut down to 30,000 passengers from the usual 110,000 passengers on working days.

  • Friday, May 31st 2024 - 20:05 UTC

    Jihadist attack against Paris 2024 Olympics prevented

    Darmanin stressed that this was the first attack against the Olympic Games to be thwarted

    An 18-year-old Chechen suspect was detained by French authorities as he allegedly planned to attack the Geoffroy-Guichard stadium in Saint-Étienne, which will host Paris 2024 men's and women's football matches will be played shortly. This “Islamist-inspired” aggression was “the first attack dismantled against the Olympic Games” although French secret services have already prevented 50 such events since 2017.

  • Friday, May 31st 2024 - 13:31 UTC

    Israel orders UNRWA out of East Jerusalem HQs

    “No further warning will be sent,” wrote Goldknopf

    The Government of Israel has ordered the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) to vacate its headquarters in East Jerusalem within 30 days. The measure was adopted at the request of the ultra-Orthodox Housing Minister Yitzhak Goldknopf. The Israeli Authority of Lands (ILA) claimed that UNRWA owed over 27 million shekels (around € 7 million) for operating on land belonging to Israel “without consent” over the past seven years.

  • Friday, May 31st 2024 - 13:26 UTC

    US Election enters uncharted territory after verdict against Trump

    Trump made history by becoming the first former U.S. president to be convicted of a felony

    The U.S. presidential campaign has plunged into uncharted territory following a historic verdict against former President Donald Trump. Found guilty on 34 counts of falsifying accounting documents to conceal a payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels, Trump immediately shifted into campaign mode, declaring, “I'm a political prisoner!”

  • Friday, May 31st 2024 - 10:48 UTC

    Peru: Targetting President Boluarte backfires on Prosecutor Villena

    A private citizen argues that Presidents cannot be investigated while in office

    A Constitutional complaint was filed against Peru's Attorney General Juan Carlos Villena for irregularities in charges he filed against President Dina Boluarte. The move will shield the head of state under investigation for corruption and has a meager 5% positive image.

  • Friday, May 31st 2024 - 10:35 UTC

    Mothers of Plaza de Mayo leader Nora Cortiñas dies aged 94

    Cortiñas also supported the identification of Argentine combatants fallen during the 1982 South Atlantic war, among other causes

    Mothers of Plaza de Mayo (Founding Line) President Nora Cortiñas died Thursday in Morón, on the western outskirts of Buenos Aires, from complications resulting from a hernia surgery she had undergone days earlier. The iconic human rights activist was 94.

  • Thursday, May 30th 2024 - 19:20 UTC

    Former Paraguayan President Lugo not returning to politics

    Lugo is well but does not plan to return to the political arena

    Former Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo said Thursday in a radio interview on the occasion of his 73rd birthday that he was feeling well after a brain stroke in 2022 that had him spend over 6 months recuperating in Buenos Aires. However, he admitted he was somewhat tired and unfit to return to the political arena. He was a Senator on behalf of the leftwing Frente Guasu when he suffered his health issue.

  • Thursday, May 30th 2024 - 14:10 UTC

    Uruguay issues decree to speed up admittance of Venezuelan asylum seekers

    Venezuelan nationals will be considered “in a different way, taking into account the reality of that country,” Paganini explained. Photo: Sebastián Astorga

    The Uruguayan Government issued a decree Wednesday expediting the admission of some 3,500 Venezuelan refugees into the country, Foreign Minister Omar Paganini announced in a press conference in Montevideo.