Politics

• Monday, June 24th 2019 - 12:37 UTC

  Irish farmers protest Mercosur negotiations before EC offices in Dublin

  

  A protest by the Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) is taking place at the European Commission offices in Dublin over the “double standards of the commission” in their reckless pursuit of a sell-out trade deal” with the Mercosur trade bloc.

• Monday, June 24th 2019 - 12:02 UTC

  Uruguay and Argentina with a “dry border” for the first time in history

  

  Uruguay and Argentina will have for the first time a “dry border”. This is not because historians, cartographers or geographers suddenly found out, or Uruguay grabbed land from its larger neighbor.

• Monday, June 24th 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  Argentina lines up for the August primaries; three leading presidential tickets

  

  Months of intense political negotiations and last minute nerve breaking deals came to an end in Argentina on Sunday's zero hour deadline, when the different political groupings had to present to electoral authorities their list of presidential hopefuls, as well as future lawmakers.

• Monday, June 24th 2019 - 09:40 UTC

  US launched cyber attacks against Iranian missile control systems

  

  The United States launched cyber attacks against Iranian missile control systems and a spy network after Tehran downed an American surveillance drone, according to US media reports.

• Monday, June 24th 2019 - 08:54 UTC

  Northern Australia port for the US Navy to keep track of “Chinese intentions”

  

  Australia is planning to build a new deep-water port on its northern coast able to accommodate US Marine deployments as part of efforts to counter China's growing presence in the region, the ABC reported on Monday.

• Sunday, June 23rd 2019 - 14:43 UTC

  Ashes of General Mario Menendez strategically scattered in Falkland Islands

  

  By Heather Briley, Buenos Aires - The ashes of the notorious Argentine general who oversaw the brutal occupation of the Falklands have been scattered in secret on the islands after being smuggled over in a Tupperware box, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.

• Saturday, June 22nd 2019 - 11:32 UTC

  Battleship Graf Spee Nazi eagle must be sold, orders Uruguayan court

  

  Uruguay's government must sell a huge, bronze Nazi eagle, and gun ranging telemeter, salvaged from a sunken World War II era Nazi Germany warship, a court ruled on Friday. The nearly 350 kilo eagle with a swastika held in its claws was part of the stern of the German “pocket battleship” Admiral Graf Spee that was sunk off the coast of Montevideo in December 1939, that is almost eighty years ago.

• Saturday, June 22nd 2019 - 11:18 UTC

  Argentina with a multi-party delegation to claim the Falklands at the C24 meeting

  

  It's an election year in Argentina so a pluralistic delegation will be travelling to New York to make the country's annual claim over the Falkland Islands sovereignty before the United Nations Decolonization Committee, next Tuesday, according to reports in the Buenos Aires media.

• Saturday, June 22nd 2019 - 09:51 UTC

  Bachelet urged Maduro to release prisoners and facilitate access to Justice

  

  U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet on Friday urged Venezuela’s government to release prisoners who were arrested for peacefully protesting, and confirmed that a delegation would remain in the country to monitor the human rights situation.

• Saturday, June 22nd 2019 - 09:39 UTC

  The Economist: “Despite turmoil, Brazil is starting to fix its pension system”

  

  Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s president, likes romantic metaphors. “Our marriage is stronger than ever,” he said in May after the press speculated that he was at odds with the economy minister, Paulo Guedes. “The marriage ended with no hard feelings,” he said this month after sacking Carlos Alberto dos Santos Cruz, a minister who had said that others in government should be more careful on social media—thus outraging Bolsonaro fans who tweet about the virtues of military rule and the horrors of homosexuality.