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Montevideo, July 12th 2025 - 19:59 UTC

Politics

  • Thursday, December 8th 2022 - 08:48 UTC

    US: Dems snatch Senate majority with Warnock's win in Georgia

    Warnock is also Georgia's first Black senator

    Raphael Warnock, a senior pastor of Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, where Martin Luther King Jr. once preached, has been reelected onto the US Senate on behalf of the state of Georgia in a close runoff Tuesday against Republican Herschel Walker, which resulted in the Democratic Party securing a slight Upper House majority. With 99% of the votes counted, Warnock led Walker by 50.8% to 49.2%, it was announced Wednesday.

  • Thursday, December 8th 2022 - 08:40 UTC

    Castillo housed at same detention center as fellow former President Fujimori

    Castillo faces between 10 and 20 years in jail for the crime of rebellion, in addition to the other corruption charges

    Peru's Prosecutor's Office Wednesday announced the arrest of former president Pedro Castillo Terrones for the “commission of an act in flagrancy” after his failed attempt to dissolve Parliament and his ensuing impeachment by Congress.

  • Thursday, December 8th 2022 - 08:31 UTC

    Pacific Alliance Summit called off after political crisis in Peru

    Mexico is willing to offer Castillo asylum should he ask for it, Ebrard said

    Due to Wednesday's events in Lima, the Pacific Alliance Summit scheduled to take place later this month at the Peruvian capital has been postponed yet again, Mexico's Foreign Ministry announced.

  • Thursday, December 8th 2022 - 08:13 UTC

    Thursday 8 December, Anniversary of the Battle of the Falkland Islands

    At 10.58am the Governor will arrive at the Battle Memorial and will inspect the Parade.

    Gilbert House, seat of the Falkland Islands Government elected Legislative Assembly has announced that the following program has been arranged for Thursday 8 December 2022 to commemorate the victory of the Naval engagements of 8th December 1914, on which day 6 British sailors lost their lives and a number of others died later from injuries received during the battle. 2,260 German sailors also lost their lives.

  • Wednesday, December 7th 2022 - 20:26 UTC

    Peru's Congress impeaches Castillo; Boluarte to be sworn in

    Castillo was in open and flagrant violation of the Constitution, Williams noted

    Peru's Vice President Dina Boluarte is to be sworn in later Wednesday as the new President after the motion to vacate (impeach) Pedro Castillo Terrones was approved by 101 votes in favor, six against, and 10 abstentions, citing a “moral incapacity” following his coup attempt. Boluarte will be the first woman ever to hold that office

  • Wednesday, December 7th 2022 - 20:08 UTC

    Independence, one of three viable options for the future of Wales, “landmark” report for Plaid Cymru

    The Independent Commission on the Constitutional Future of Wales, considers three viable options for the Wales, including independence

    As happened with Scotland struggling to obtain a second chance for an independence referendum, in Wales following a deal between the Welsh Labor government and Plaid Cymru, an independent commission will examine three viable options for the future of the country including independence.

  • Wednesday, December 7th 2022 - 19:15 UTC

    Peru: Pedro Castillo detained by police after coup attempt

    The State Attorney, Daniel Soria, has already filed a criminal complaint against Castillo for the unconstitutional measure adopted

    Peruvian President Pedro Castillo was arrested by the authorities after he dissolved the Congress of Peru on Wednesday. The accused as the leader of a “criminal organization” was approached in the street, in downtown Lima, by police officers when he was leaving the Government headquarters, it was reported by local media.

  • Wednesday, December 7th 2022 - 19:05 UTC

    Monarchists planning a coup in Germany arrested

    The suspects were said to “follow a conglomeration of conspiratorial myths of so-called Reichsburger and QAnon ideologies”

    German authorities have arrested 25 people suspected of plotting to stage a coup d'etat through military means to reinstate a monarchy under “Heinrich XIII Prince Reuss zu Köstritz,” who was among those detained Wednesday morning in Frankfurt.

  • Wednesday, December 7th 2022 - 18:44 UTC

    Castillo stages coup d'état in Peru, announces emergency gov't

    A curfew will be enforced and those in possession of guns must hand them over to the police or face penal consequences yet to be determined by a decree-law

    Hours before Congress was to vote on a new motion to depose Pedro Castillo Terrones as President of Peru, the incumbent head of state Wednesday dissolved Parliament and announced he was starting an “emergency government.” Hours later, the chief of the Government was arrested by the authorities in Lima.

  • Wednesday, December 7th 2022 - 18:20 UTC

    Uruguay publishes unilateral statement regarding Mercosur Summit

    Unlike in previous years, there was no joint declaration after the Montevideo gathering

    Uruguay Wednesday issued a closing statement Wednesday ratifying President Luis Lacalle Pou's intentions to keep seeking trade opportunities outside Mercosur. The document came after the South American bloc's LXI Summit held earlier this week in Montevideo, which, unlike previous gatherings, produced no joint declaration.