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Montevideo, November 25th 2024 - 11:53 UTC

Politics

  • Wednesday, March 20th 2024 - 21:32 UTC

    Falkland Islands celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Social Services Department

    Social Services has a 10 staff team, supporting, Children and Adult Services, Early Help, Income Support, Probation Service (distinct but co-located service) and Jersey House (with a further 9 staff)

    Tuesday 19 March is World Social Work Day, and 2024 marks the 25th anniversary of Social Services in the Falkland Islands. To mark this milestone the Social Services Department wanted to celebrate the successes that have been made since 1999.

  • Wednesday, March 20th 2024 - 20:42 UTC

    Brazil: Dengue cases so far in 2024 surpass previous yearly figures

    Most of the victims were children under 14 years of age

    Brazilian authorities have confirmed 1,889,206 positive cases of dengue fever so far this year, thus surpassing 2015's 1,688,688 and 2023's 1,658,816, it was reported. In addition to 630 confirmed fatalities, another 1,009 deaths are under investigation since Jan. 1 to determine whether they were caused by dengue or by another pathogen.

  • Wednesday, March 20th 2024 - 20:02 UTC

    Fish and chips: “The unscrupulous British” had eaten Russian fish for 68 years, says leading ally of Putin

    Russia's parliamentary speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said: “The British need to study some proverbs - 'Russians harness the horse slowly, but ride it fast'.”

    No more fish and chips from Russian waters? A 1956 agreement that allowed British boats to fish in the Barents Sea has been ripped up, in the latest sign of growing tensions between Moscow and London, and the last batch of sanctions imposed on Russia and autocrat Putin criminals by UK.

  • Wednesday, March 20th 2024 - 19:41 UTC

    One person killed, over 110,000 left without electricity in storm-hit Buenos Aires

    The SMN forecast heavy rains for the remainder of the day

    One woman was killed and over 110,000 households in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (AMBA) were left with no electricity on Wednesday morning as heavy rains hit the Argentine capital and its surrounding areas, leading to the delay or cancellation of some 60 passenger flights among other nuisances such as flooded streets.

  • Wednesday, March 20th 2024 - 18:55 UTC

    French company to open world's first solar-powered air traffic control station in Chile

    “No one had ever made a radar 100% independent of the power grid,” Thales' Macaferri explained

    The French company Thales will be opening a 100% solar energy-powered air traffic control (ATC) station in Chile, it was announced in Santiago. The facility will be in the city of Calama in the Atacama Desert in the northern part of the country, it was also explained. The radars consume about one megawatt per hour.

  • Wednesday, March 20th 2024 - 13:04 UTC

    A Malvinas April 2nd parade in front of Argentine Congress

    Victoria Villarruel, a member of the 'military family' and a 'Malvinera'

    Argentine vice president Victoria Villarruel is planning a great parade of Malvinas Veterans in front of the Congress building in Buenos Aires, not necessarily to glorify war and military actions, but to vindicate the thousands of Argentine conscripts that were sent to invade and occupy the Falkland Islands, and after the mission's defeat had to return in disgrace, hidden by their officers, and only years later were given some sort of compensations, although abundant garrulous oral praise. The parade would take place on April 2nd, the 42nd anniversary of the Falklands invasion by Argentine forces.

  • Wednesday, March 20th 2024 - 12:38 UTC

    Falkland Islands Government representatives attend all-party Parliamentary Group meeting

    The Falkland Islands Representative, Richard Hyslop, with (L-R) Chairman of the Falkland Islands APPG, Peter Dowd MP, and Vice Chairman, Rob Butler MP. Photo: Falkland Islands Government Office

    The Falkland Islands Government Representatives, Richard Hyslop and Michael Betts, participated in the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for the Falkland Islands, held in the Houses of Parliament.

  • Wednesday, March 20th 2024 - 08:31 UTC

    Lula picks Rosa Weber for Mercosur Court

    Weber's nomination is still pending approval by the Mercosur Council

    Former Brazilian Supreme Federal Court (STF) Chief Justice Rosa Weber has accepted President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's proposal to become a member of Mercosur's Asunción-based Review Court which handles disputes among member countries, Agencia Brasil reported.

  • Wednesday, March 20th 2024 - 08:17 UTC

    Argentina: Mauricio Macri becomes PRO Party Chairman

    The former president plans to boost the careers of Torres, Frigerio as well as that of his cousin

    Former Argentine President Mauricio Macri was appointed Tuesday to chair the Propuesta Republicana (PRO) Party which he founded and which led him to the Casa Rosada between 2015 and 2019 under the Juntos por el Cambio (JxC) coalition with the Radical Civic Unión (UCR) and other political forces.

  • Wednesday, March 20th 2024 - 02:55 UTC

    Argentine Justice seeks repatriation of plane used in Condor Plan kidnapping

    The Condor Plan was a coordination between the military dictatorships of several Latin American countries in the 1970s and 1980s to persecute and eliminate political opponents. Photo: AFP

    The Argentine justice system has requested Uruguay to repatriate a plane allegedly used in the infamous Condor Plan, a coordination effort between South American dictatorships during the 1970s and 1980s. The aircraft, a Hawker Siddeley twin-jet, is believed to have been utilized in the transfer of detainees during this dark period of political repression.