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Montevideo, October 25th 2025 - 05:27 UTC

Politics

  • Tuesday, January 21st 2025 - 21:45 UTC

    Italian teenager toys with Mediterranean merchant ship traffic just for fun

    Despite the legal consequences he may now face, the Italian teenager is likely to end up hired by a cybersecurity company

    A 15-year-old lad from Cesena, Italy, toyed with merchant ship routes in the Mediterranean after accessing the navigation systems just for fun. Although no material damage was reported, a criminal case has been opened against the teenager, whose parents claimed to be unaware of those activities.

  • Tuesday, January 21st 2025 - 19:57 UTC

    Trump exits Paris Agreement and WHO, pardons Jan. 6 rioters

    Trump had a busy first day back at his old job

    In his first hours in office, US President Donald Trump signed a barrage of Executive Orders reshaping the entire geopolitical scenario worldwide.

  • Tuesday, January 21st 2025 - 15:32 UTC

    Falklands, RAF Commander visits the Air Mobility Force at MPC

    The Air Mobility Force has an Atlas, Voyager, and support functions deployed to provide Aeromedical Evacuation, Air-to-Air Refueling, Search and Rescue, plus Fisheries Protection

    Royal Air Force Commander Air Wing, Gp Capt Andy McIntyre, recently undertook the 8000 mile journey to visit Mount Pleasant Complex, at British Falkland South Atlantic Islands.

  • Tuesday, January 21st 2025 - 15:25 UTC

    Falklands, New step towards protection for domestic abuse victims

    The orders can impose prohibitions, such as barring an abuser from contacting or approaching the victim

    The Falkland Islands is due to take a significant step forward in safeguarding its residents by enacting the Domestic Abuse (Civil and Family Proceedings) Ordinance, which comes into effect on 3rd February.

  • Tuesday, January 21st 2025 - 10:59 UTC

    Trump signals beginning of US Golden Era under him

    From now on “we will measure our success not only by the battles we win, but also by the wars that we end, and perhaps most importantly, the wars we never get into,” Trump insisted

    Donald Trump announced that January 20, 2025, marked the beginning of the United States' Golden Era because during his new term in office great achievements lay ahead, such as the US flag flying on Mars together with energy independence, immigration reforms to tackle the inflow of illegal aliens, as well as the end of woke ideas whereby -for example- there are other genders beyond male and female.

  • Tuesday, January 21st 2025 - 10:45 UTC

    Argentina records foreign trade surplus in 2024

    An Indec report showed that achievement for the first time in two decades

    Argentina posted last year its highest nominal trade surplus in two decades, according to a National Institute of Statistics and Census (Indec) report released Monday in Buenos Aires. The document showed a US$ 18.9 billion positive outcome which contrasted with the US$ 6.925 billion deficit the year before.

  • Tuesday, January 21st 2025 - 09:39 UTC

    Colombia's Foreign Minister resigns

    Murillo is believed to have electoral plans of his own

    Luis Gilberto Murillo has turned in his resignation as Colombia's Foreign Minister, presumably to pursue an electoral position, it was reported Monday in Bogotá. According to local media, Murillo might be running for president next year. His successor effective Feb. 1 will be President Gustavo Petro's Friday woman and lawyer Laura Sarabia. Also resigning Monday was Transport Minister María Constanza García.

  • Monday, January 20th 2025 - 21:53 UTC

    Biden issues last-minute pardons to those who feared revenge under Trump

    Biden set the presidential record for most individual pardons and commutations issued, including his son Hunter

    Outgoing US President Joseph Biden used his final hours in office to issue a preemptive blanket pardon favoring members of his family, Gen. Mark Milley, Dr. Anthony Fauci, and Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney, who cochaired with the Democratic Bennie Thompson the Congressional Committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol Hill riots. The body eventually produced a report that said Trump had engaged in a “multi-part conspiracy” to overturn the legitimate results of the 2020 presidential election. Cheney even announced he would vote for Kamala Harris in last year's elections.

  • Monday, January 20th 2025 - 08:10 UTC

    Trump making triumphant comeback to the White House

    Trump is expected to sign about 100 executive orders on his first day back in office

    Four years after disappearing behind the scenes amid growing discontent and suspicions about loyalties and vote counts, Donald Trump returns to the White House on Monday with a new vice president (J.D. Vance), new energy, and the galvanization that legal proceedings and assassination attempts leave in a political leader.

  • Monday, January 20th 2025 - 07:40 UTC

    Argentine gov't pledges to find those responsible for Prosecutor Nisman's murder

    Nisman wound up dead with a bullet in his head just hours before coming forward in Congress with his findings about the 1994 AMIA bombing

    Argentine President Javier Milei said that Special Prosecutor Alberto Nisman was murdered “at the hands of the darkest powers” in the country. Nisman was found dead on Jan. 18, 2015, in his apartment with a bullet in his head just hours before appearing before a Congressional committee to explain his findings regarding the so-called Memorandum of Understanding with Iran.