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Politics

  • Friday, August 11th 2023 - 08:38 UTC

    Former FARC guerrilla fighter dies in Buenos Aires riots

    The overweight rioter decompensated while being held by police officers on the floor

    An Argentine national with a criminal record as a member of the dissolved Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) died Thursday in Buenos Aires after being arrested by the City Police amid riots staged by leftwing groups around the iconic Obelisk, it was reported.

  • Thursday, August 10th 2023 - 11:37 UTC

    Killing of 11-yr-old girl halts all political rallying in Argentina

    Morena was mugged on her way to school in the morning

    All candidates, presidential or otherwise, have suspended their campaign closing rallies for Sunday's Simultaneous, Open, and Mandatory Primary (PASO) elections after Morena Domínguez, an 11-year-old girl, was killed Wednesday when motorbike robbers took her backpack at 7.20 am on her way to school in Lanús, a municipality in the province of Buenos Aires just south of the Argentine capital.

  • Thursday, August 10th 2023 - 11:25 UTC

    Hitmen assassinate Presidential candidate in Ecuador

    A former journalist and assemblyman, the 59-year-old Villavicencio was said to be very close to President Lasso

    Presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio died after being attacked by hitmen on his way out of a campaign rally in downtown Quito ahead of the upcoming Aug. 20 elections, Interior Minister Juan Zapata confirmed in the Ecuadorian capital. Other people were wounded, it was reported.

  • Thursday, August 10th 2023 - 11:23 UTC

    Falklands by-election 21 September 2023: Proxy, postal and proxy postal votes

    The closing date to apply for inclusion on the Register of Electors and to vote by means of a proxy, postal or proxy postal vote is midday Monday 21 August 2023.

    The Falkland Islands Registration Officer is reminding the public that the closing date to apply for inclusion on the Register of Electors and to vote by means of a proxy, postal or proxy postal vote is midday on Monday 21 August 2023. After this time no applications will be accepted.

  • Thursday, August 10th 2023 - 10:54 UTC

    Chilean lawmakers want to know about US involvement in 1973 coup

    “A half-truth is a complete lie,” Kaiser argued

    Chile's Lower House Wednesday agreed to ask President Gabriel Boric Font to instruct the Foreign Ministry to request the government of the United States to release the details of its involvement in the Sept. 11, 1973, coup d'état staged by General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte against the democratically-elected Salvador Allende, it was reported in Santiago.

  • Thursday, August 10th 2023 - 10:49 UTC

    Uruguayan orange producers said to be retaining cheap Argentine labor

    “So far we have not found where this phenomenon is occurring,” Uruguayan Labor Minister Mieres said

    Agricultural producers in the Salto area have been reported to hire Argentine labor from Concordia just across the border and pay them three times less than they would local workers, Uruguay's National Union of Salaried, Rural, and Related Workers (Unión Nacional de Asalariados, Trabajadores Rurales y Afines - Unatra) denounced.

  • Thursday, August 10th 2023 - 10:46 UTC

    Edilene Lobo becomes first black woman to join Brazil's TSE

    “She becomes a symbol of respect for black women,” TSE Chief Justice De Moraes said

    Lawyer Edilene Lobo became the first black woman to join Brazil's Superior Electoral Court (TSE) after she was sworn in as a substitute judge on Tuesday before Chief Justice Alexandre De Moraes, Agência Brasil reported.

  • Thursday, August 10th 2023 - 09:06 UTC

    King Charles III 50p coins begin circulating , “a piece of British history”

    The design for the tails face of the coins features Westminster Abbey and the King's official cypher, representing him being crowned as King

    A batch of millions of 50p coins celebrating the coronation of King Charles III will begin circulation in UK. Featuring a design by Royal Mint coin designer Natasha Jenkins, the coins are the second 50ps to enter circulation bearing the monarch's official coin portrait.

  • Wednesday, August 9th 2023 - 10:51 UTC

    UK warned EU of “Argentina's misinterpretation” on any Falklands reference

    Foreign Secretary James Cleverly sent a text message to Josep Borrell, a senior EU diplomat, urging him to “keep the Falkland Islands out of the summit communiqué”

    The British press is revealing some of the facts surrounding the European Union/Community of Latin American and Caribbean States summit, held in the third week of July in Brussels when Argentina celebrated that in the controversial final communiqué, a reference to the Falklands was changed to Malvinas Islands.

  • Wednesday, August 9th 2023 - 10:49 UTC

    Overseas Territories two-day Biodiversity Strategy forum held in the Falkland Islands

    Overseas Territories participants of the Biodiversity Strategy workshop held in the Falkland Islands. Lawmaker MLA Leona Roberts in the middle of the pic.

    A successful two-day workshop for the new Overseas Territories Biodiversity Strategy, held in the Falkland Islands concluded successfully last Friday. The workshop led by the UK’s Joint Nature Conservation Committee, in partnership with FIG and representatives from conservation, science, rural business, economic development, tourism and fishing sectors.