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Montevideo, July 4th 2025 - 18:39 UTC

Politics

  • Friday, November 8th 2024 - 19:21 UTC

    US Federal Reserve cuts rate by 25 basis points, but future decisions to be conditioned by Trump and Republicans dominance

    Powell whose mandate ends in May 2026, said if Trump were to ask him to leave, he wouldn't go, and that such a move isn't permitted by law.

    The US Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee cut interest rates by a quarter percentage point, on Thursday, the same week in which Donald Trump was swept in as elected president with a Legislative and Judicial branch packed with his conservative populists.

  • Friday, November 8th 2024 - 19:17 UTC

    Bank of England cut the key interest rate to 4.75%, but anticipates a more cautious approach to further trims

    BOE Governor Andrew Bailey said the bank sees inflation rising by 0.5 percentage points, to hit a high of around 2.75% in 2025 before falling back to its 2% target.

    The Bank of England in an almost unanimous decision cut interest rates by 25 basis points on Thursday, a boost relief for mortgage holders, but also raised its inflation forecast following on Labor’s government budget and global uncertainty, which most probably conditions future policy easing.

  • Friday, November 8th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

    “Falklands are British”, an unequivocal message from UK Minister for the Armed Forces

    Luke Pollard MP, UK Minister for the Armed Forces and MP for Plymouth Sutton and Devonport

    Plymouth has a long and rich naval history. It is celebrated as where Sir Francis Drake played bowls as the Spanish Armada loomed in 1588 and as a key embarkation point for invading Allied forces on D-Day. However, the city’s critical role in the Falklands War is perhaps less widely appreciated.

  • Friday, November 8th 2024 - 10:08 UTC

    González Urrutia says Interpol red alert on him stems from his work in exile

    González Urrutia spoke about “the indisputable triumph of the Venezuelan people's desire for change”

    Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia, regarded by many as the true winner of the July 28 elections, insisted Thursday that the red alert issued against him by Caracas' Bolivarian regime through the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol), was the consequence of “our work abroad” to gather international strength to ban Nicolás Maduro from remaining in power after January.

  • Friday, November 8th 2024 - 09:50 UTC

    Three people indicted in Buenos Aires in connection with Liam Payne's death

    At the time of these detentions, Payne's body had already landed in England for funeral services

    Three people have been arrested in Argentina in connection with the death of British pop musician Liam Payne. Prosecutors are charging them with various crimes, including the abandonment of a person followed by death, in addition to the supply and facilitation of narcotics.

  • Friday, November 8th 2024 - 09:22 UTC

    Pogrom against Israeli football fans in Amsterdam

    The Israeli fans were to be evacuated through rescue flights shortly

    Israeli football fans were ambushed and some of them went missing Thursday evening in Amsterdam in the aftermath of a match between FC Ajax and Maccabi Tel Aviv. In response, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sent two emergency flights to evacuate Israelis from the Dutch city as observers worldwide concurred on the use of the word “Pogrom,” which historically refers to an organized massacre of a particular ethnic group, particularly that of Jewish people in Russia or eastern Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

  • Thursday, November 7th 2024 - 22:21 UTC

    ECLAC convention agrees on need to deepen regional cooperation in digital transformation

    “Today we are gathered to define a new Digital Agenda for Latin America and the Caribbean,” Uruguay's Virginia Pardo said

    Dignitaries in Santiago (Chile) attending the two-day Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean's (ECLAC) Ninth Ministerial Conference on the Information Society advocated Thursday for deepening regional cooperation in digital transformation through concrete actions and projects.

  • Thursday, November 7th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

    Harris concedes defeat but promises to keep fighting

    The ruling party agreed to a smooth transition

    US Vice President Kamala Harris finally admitted Tuesday's electoral results were not what her Democrat Party had expected and conceded victory to former President Donald Trump. “When we lose an election, we accept the results,” she reckoned after telephoning the former Republican head of state to congratulate him.

  • Thursday, November 7th 2024 - 10:25 UTC

    Brazil's Copom raises Selic rate to 11.25%

    The measure was expected after the US dollar began to rise against the local real

    The Monetary Policy Committee (Copom) of Brazil's Central Bank (BCB) Wednesday agreed unanimously to increase the economy's basic interest rate known as Selic by 0.5%age points to 11.25% per year, Agencia Brasil reported. The move was expected within financial circles given the recent rise in the exchange rate between the local real and the US dollar which provided for an inflationary context.

  • Thursday, November 7th 2024 - 09:12 UTC

    Argentina's aviation industry nearing decisive hours

    The Libertarian Administration would not hesitate to scrap the flag carrier if passengers are repeatedly put through recurrent hardships

    The Libertarian Administration of President Javier Milei gave aviation unions until Friday to work out their discrepancies or otherwise Aerolíneas Argentinas was to be shut down given the number of hardships passengers at various airports, particularly Ezeiza and Jorge Newbery in Buenos Aires, are going through.