Politics

• Monday, December 2nd 2024 - 21:26 UTC

  ICC Chief Prosecutor addresses Venezuela's human rights crisis

  

  International Criminal Court (ICC) Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan Monday demanded that Venezuelan authorities release all adolescents and other political prisoners held after protests erupted following the controversial July 28 elections where President Nicolás Maduro was declared the winner despite failing to produce any documentation attesting thereto while the opposition Unitarian Democratic Platform (PUD) published the minutes of 83% of the voting stations proving that their candidate Edmundo González Urrutia had triumphed.

• Monday, December 2nd 2024 - 10:12 UTC

  Milei pushes for trade flexibility at Mercosur Summit, eyes U.S. agreement

  

  Argentine President Javier Milei will attend the Mercosur summit in Montevideo on December 5-6, advocating for the bloc’s members to gain the freedom to sign independent trade agreements. This marks a departure from Mercosur’s traditional collective bargaining stance but stops short of proposing an exit from the bloc.

• Monday, December 2nd 2024 - 09:49 UTC

  Argentina celebrates 65th Anniversary of Antarctic Treaty

  

  The Government of Argentina celebrated Sunday the 65th Anniversary of the Antarctic Treaty which, Buenos Aires insisted in a statement, “established the exclusively peaceful use of Antarctica and promoted scientific cooperation on the sixth continent.”

• Monday, December 2nd 2024 - 09:42 UTC

  Biden pardons son on arm and tax evasion charges

  

  Backtracking on his own words, US President Joseph Biden Sunday announced he had pardoned his son Hunter on two criminal charges, claiming they were politically motivated.

• Monday, December 2nd 2024 - 09:07 UTC

  Falklands, construction of a new HMS Sheffield, a state of the art Type 26 Frigate

  

  Construction has begun on the Royal Navy's latest Type 26 frigate, HMS Sheffield, with the first steel being cut in a ceremony in Glasgow. The official beginning of construction was marked by an event attended by Defense Procurement Minister Maria Eagle.

• Sunday, December 1st 2024 - 23:21 UTC

  Argentina authorize RRS James Cook research missions in the Southwestern Atlantic

  

  The Argentine Federal Fisheries Council has agreed to grant authorization to Britain’s RRS James Cook belonging to the Natural Environment Research Council, NERC, to advance scientific research operations in Argentina’s EEZ, involving two main projects.

• Sunday, December 1st 2024 - 21:25 UTC

  Battle of Falklands, commemoration of the 110th anniversary of the great naval engagement of 8 December 1914

  

  Next Sunday, the 8th December 2024, the Falkland Islands commemorate the 110th anniversary of the first great victory of the Royal Navy in the First World War. The Falklands naval engagement took place to the south east of the Islands, chasing and sinking the pride of the German Imperial Navy, the East Asia squadron led by Admiral Graf von Spee.

• Saturday, November 30th 2024 - 10:46 UTC

  Posters of VP Villarruel rekindle feud with Milei

  

  Buenos Aires dawned Friday with posters of Vice President Victoria Villarruel apparently launching a political movement of her own, which further stirred the political momentum amid tensions between her and President Javier Milei. The phenomenon sparked a series of accusations as to who was behind the initiative, of which the Senate Speaker's Office denied any knowledge.

• Saturday, November 30th 2024 - 10:21 UTC

  Brazil successfully completes first phase of Operation Potiguar

  

  Brazil's Air Force confirmed Friday the successful launch of an unmanned rocket into space. The unit was built with 100% national technology, it was also explained at the Barreira do Inferno Center in Parnamirim, in the State of Rio Grande do Norte.

• Friday, November 29th 2024 - 23:19 UTC

  Lula and Orsi discuss Brazil-Uruguay ties at Planalto Palace

  

  Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva welcomed Uruguay's President-elect Yamandú Orsi on Friday at the Planalto Palace to discuss the possible Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the Southern Common Market (Mercosur) and the European Union (EU) as well as other issues.