Politics

• Wednesday, June 14th 2023 - 09:12 UTC

  Fernández, von der Leyen discuss EU-Mercosur ties

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández met Tuesday at Casa Rosada with European Commission head Ursula von der Leyen to discuss the South American country's trade relations with the European Union (EU), as well as the Mercosur-EU agreement ahead of next month's Summit with CELAC in Brussels.

• Tuesday, June 13th 2023 - 10:58 UTC

  WaPo: US pushing for 6 new UN Security Council permanent members

  

  According to The Washington Post, the United States is developing a proposal to add six permanent members to the UN Security Council who would nonetheless not have veto rights. “The evolving US proposal, which is expected to include the addition of up to six permanent seats to the Council without granting those nations veto power, ” the WaPo reported on Monday.

• Tuesday, June 13th 2023 - 10:45 UTC

  Spain exhuming Civil War remains and returning them to their families towns

  

  A team of experts in Spain has begun work to exhume the bodies of more than 100 civil war victims from a huge basilica complex near Madrid, where dictator Francisco Franco once lay.

• Tuesday, June 13th 2023 - 10:25 UTC

  Chile launches Feminist Foreign Policy plan

  

  Chile Monday became the first South American country to implement a “Feminist Foreign Policy,” it was reported in Santiago. The Feminist Foreign Policy Plan (PEF) seeks to establish gender equality as a guiding principle in the Foreign Ministry, it was explained.

• Tuesday, June 13th 2023 - 10:25 UTC

  Italy mourns Il Cavaliere Berlusconi, the end of an era in Italy

  

  The passing of Il Cavaliere, Silvio Berlusconi, is the end of an era for Italy. For the past fifty years, his shadow has loomed large over parliament, the media, football and the man on the street.

• Tuesday, June 13th 2023 - 08:16 UTC

  UAE Minister has busy day in Buenos Aires

  

  Argentine Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero Monday welcomed United Arab Emirates Minister of State for International Cooperation Reem Al Hashimy to deepen bilateral ties and open new exchange channels between both countries, it was reported by the Palacio San Martín.

• Tuesday, June 13th 2023 - 01:36 UTC

  Brazilian beef stranded in Chinese ports triggers a Lula phone call to Xi

  

  Since some 70,000 tons of Brazilian beef are stranded at Chinese ports awaiting an official clearance resolution from Beijing since the identification of an atypical case of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), known as “mad cow disease” in Brazil, President Lula da Silva revealed he contacted his counterpart Xi Jinping on Juke 6, to try and overcome the situation.

• Tuesday, June 13th 2023 - 01:28 UTC

  Scotland's SNP in disarray, police question Sturgeon on independence referendum finances

  

  Scotland's former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has been released without charge pending further investigations after being arrested by police. She was arrested in connection with the ongoing investigation into the Scottish National Party's funding and finances at 10:09 on Sunday, reports the BBC.

• Monday, June 12th 2023 - 11:02 UTC

  Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi succumbs to leukemia

  

  Silvio Berlusconi, the flamboyant former Prime Minister of Italy, has passed away at the San Raffaele Hospital in Milan after battling leukemia for an extended period, as reported by Italian media today.

• Monday, June 12th 2023 - 10:33 UTC

  Uruguayan President off to NYC to collect accolade

  

  President Luis Lacalle Pou left Sunday for the United States to receive the Gold Insigne Award, given by the Americas Society Forum in New York.