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Montevideo, July 5th 2025 - 02:03 UTC

Politics

  • Thursday, October 3rd 2024 - 14:20 UTC

    Chagos Archipelago: Political Agreement between the UK and Mauritius

    The UK Government has confirmed today (Thursday 3 October) that it has reached a political agreement on the exercise of sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago. Today’s political agreement is subject to the finalisation of a treaty. Under the terms of this treaty the United Kingdom will agree that Mauritius is sovereign over the Chagos Archipelago, including Diego Garcia.

  • Thursday, October 3rd 2024 - 10:27 UTC

    Peru's Air Force contemplating ambitious purchase program

    “At last, we are giving importance to investments as thought with a State vision,” Astudillo underlined

    Peruvian authorities will move on with the project to purchase 24 new fighter jets for the South American country's Air Force (FAP), Defense Minister Walter Enrique Astudillo Chávez confirmed.

  • Thursday, October 3rd 2024 - 09:58 UTC

    Evo's refugee status revoked in Argentina

    Morales landed in Argentina once Alberto Fernández was sworn in

    The Argentine Government of Javier Milei announced Wednesday that it was terminating former Bolivian President Evo Morales' refugee status, according to a posting by Presidential Spokesman Manuel Adorni on X: “Juan Evo Morales Ayma's refugee status has been terminated,” Adorni wrote in his @madorni account.

  • Wednesday, October 2nd 2024 - 16:05 UTC

    Lula back in Brasilia after botched flight

    “It is inexplicable that the UN Security Council does not have the moral and political authority to make Israel sit at a table to talk,” said Lula about the current Middle East crisis

    President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is finally back in Brasilia since 10.12 am local time Wednesday after a second Brazilian Air Force (FAB) airplane was sent to Mexico City to pick him up alongside his entourage following a technical problem with the VC-1 Airbus A329CJ aircraft carrying him that resulted in an emergency landing.

  • Wednesday, October 2nd 2024 - 12:49 UTC

    Guterres becomes persona non grata in Israel

    Israel will continue to defend itself “with or without António Guterres,” Katz stressed

    United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres was declared persona non grata Wednesday by Israel after failing to condemn Tuesday's rocket attack by Iran, Foreign Minister Israel Katz announced on X. The former Portuguese Prime Minister has thus been banned “from entering the country,” Katz explained.

  • Wednesday, October 2nd 2024 - 09:48 UTC

    Orsi and Cosse reach out to Uruguayan voters living in Argentina

    Orsi and Cosse (L) also pledge to work for the right of Uruguayans living abroad to vote at local consulates

    Uruguay's presidential hopeful Yamandú Orsi of the Broad Front (Frente Amplio - FA) and his running mate Carolina Cosse were in Buenos Aires this week in a campaign maneuver seeking to lure residents in neighboring Argentina to “cross the pond” and vote for him in the Oct. 27 elections.

  • Wednesday, October 2nd 2024 - 09:23 UTC

    Lula's presidential airplane makes emergency landing

    The technical problem affecting the Airbus A329CJ is still to be detailed

    Brazilian Air Force's (FAB) VC-1 aircraft carrying President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva spent five hours flying in circles, presumably to burn fuel, before making an emergency landing due to technical problems at the Felipe Angeles International Airport, a commercial terminal serving Mexico Valley metropolitan area, Agencia Brasil reported.

  • Wednesday, October 2nd 2024 - 09:04 UTC

    Assange says he was free not because the system worked

    Journalism is not a crime, Assange insisted

    WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said Tuesday in his first public appearance after his release from the Belmarsh maximum security prison in the United Kingdom in late June that he was “free because I pled guilty to journalism.”

  • Wednesday, October 2nd 2024 - 08:38 UTC

    The woman who will lead Chile’s counter-revolution, according to The Economist

    Evelyn Matthei, currently mayor of a posh Santiago suburb comfortably leads opinion polls for November 2025 presidential election

    The graffiti are still visible. Walls shout: “Death to the police!” Bus shelters demand: “No more private pensions!” Yet the occasionally violent social upheaval that rocked Chile from 2019 to 2022 is past. And the radical left-wing movement it propelled to power is now unpopular, having discovered that governing is harder than protesting.

  • Wednesday, October 2nd 2024 - 07:01 UTC

    UK “green milestone”, the last power station fueled by coal has finished

    The first coal-fired power station in the world, the Holborn Viaduct plant was built in 1882 in London by Thomas Edison - bringing light to the streets of the capital.

    UK's last coal power station, at Ratcliffe-on-Soar, finished operations on Monday September 30th, after running since 1967 and ending 142 years of reliance on the fossil fuel. The milestone is a major event in UK's ambitions to reduce its contribution to climate change. Coal is the dirtiest fossil fuel producing the most greenhouse gases when burnt.