Politics

• Wednesday, July 13th 2022 - 09:14 UTC

  UK Ministry of Defense criticizes BBC Panorama program for putting “armed forces personnel at risk”

  

  British Armed Forces personnel have been put “at risk both in the field and in reputation” by BBC Panorama's episode about SAS operations in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defense (MOD) has said. MOD has put out a strong statement criticizing “unjustified conclusions” in an upcoming hour-long documentary, called SAS Death Squads Exposed: A British War Crime?

• Tuesday, July 12th 2022 - 23:53 UTC

  Argentina eager to join BRICS, Ambassador tells Moscow

  

  Argentina's Ambassador to Moscow Eduardo Zuain Monday told the Russian Government that his country was looking forward to becoming a full member of BRICS, the global alliance formed by his hosts together with Brazil, India, China, and South Africa.

• Tuesday, July 12th 2022 - 20:57 UTC

  Moscow warns US leading world to brink of nuclear conflict

  

  The US Government of President Joseph Biden and its allies are on the brink of a conflict with Russia which might reach nuclear proportions, Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Tuesday.

• Tuesday, July 12th 2022 - 19:18 UTC

  Srebrenica genocide: The Hague apologizes Dutch troops' failure at massacre of 8,000 Muslim prisoners

  

  The Netherlands offered its “deepest apologies” for the role played by Dutch peacekeepers in the Srebrenica genocide during the Balkans war when some 8,000 Bosnian Muslims were brutally murdered by attacking Bosnian Serb forces 27 years ago

• Tuesday, July 12th 2022 - 18:54 UTC

  Euro-zone inflation, things will get worse before they begin to improve

  

  The Euro-group, (countries using the Euro) finance ministers said that combating inflation was their number one priority. The announcement follows on the European Commission revised economic forecast anticipating dwindling growth and increasing geopolitical and natural disruptions to business as the biggest drags on the economy as a whole.

• Tuesday, July 12th 2022 - 18:34 UTC

  End of Falklands War: Euphoric home welcome for SS Canberra and returning troops in Southampton

  

  On Monday 11 July 1982, forty years ago, the SS Canberra – an ocean liner requisitioned by the British Ministry of Defense to transport personnel - returned from the Falklands conflict to Southampton, where she was escorted by a fleet of small vessels and some 2,500 members of the Armed Forces were greeted by cheering crowds.

• Tuesday, July 12th 2022 - 12:07 UTC

  Voting for next Conservative party leader and to replace Boris Johnson begins

  

  Voting will get underway this Wednesday for candidates striving to become the leader of the Conservative party and the next British prime minister. So far eleven MPs have put themselves forward to replace Boris Johnson which comes after the party increased the number of nominations needed to make it to the first-round ballot, in order to speed up the election process.

• Tuesday, July 12th 2022 - 09:45 UTC

  Lacalle Pou gave an Uruguayan mare to the Emir of Qatar as a gift and left on Monday: Why is it important?

  

  This Monday, a Criollo horse that the Uruguayan President, Luis Lacalle Pou, promised to send as a gift to the Emir of Qatar, Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, left Uruguay for Qatar. Last February, the South American president offered the animal during his trip to that country for the international fair Expo Dubai.

• Tuesday, July 12th 2022 - 09:31 UTC

  Uruguayan Higher Court upholds rejecting Pepín's asylum request

  

  A Montevideo Court of Appeals has denied Fabián “Pepín” Rodríguez Simón's asylum request, it was announced Monday.

• Tuesday, July 12th 2022 - 08:38 UTC

  PAHO supports Uruguayan Health Ministry in vax judicial ruling

  

  The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has sent a letter of support to Uruguay's Health Minister Daniel Salinas after a judge ordered all vaccination of children under 13 years of age against COVID-19 be halted in the country.