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Montevideo, July 26th 2025 - 02:13 UTC

Politics

  • Thursday, June 28th 2018 - 11:17 UTC

    Migration could seal the future of the European Union, warns Merkel

    “Europe faces many challenges, but that of migration could become the make-or-break one for EU,” Merkel said during a passionate address to parliament (Pic Reuters)

    The future of the European Union (EU) rests on the bloc’s ability to find a diplomatic answer to the migration crisis, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday. EU leaders are meeting in Brussels, Belgium on Thursday and Friday to try to wrangle a solution on migration, with the issue leaving Merkel’s own political fate hanging precariously in the balance.

  • Thursday, June 28th 2018 - 11:13 UTC

    Trump gets another chance to reshape the ideological composition of the Supreme Court

    The remarks came shortly after Justice Anthony Kennedy announced that he will be retiring at the end of July, calling his tenure the “highest of honors”

    President Donald Trump will likely get to appoint a second judge to the Supreme Court, and his administration has already published a list of potential candidates for the bench. Trump told reporters Wednesday that his administration “will begin our search for a new justice of the United States Supreme Court that will begin immediately.”

  • Thursday, June 28th 2018 - 10:54 UTC

    UK prepared to resume arms sales to Argentina after a six-year ban

    The decision comes a few weeks after Foreign Secretary Johnson visited Buenos Aires, where he vowed “an intensifying relationship” with Argentina

    Arms exports to the Argentine military are set to resume, more than six years after a ban imposed in a row over the Falkland Islands. Foreign Office Minister Sir Alan Duncan said restrictions would still be imposed on exports which could “enhance” Argentina's military capabilities.

  • Thursday, June 28th 2018 - 10:11 UTC

    López Obrador closes his campaign with an anticipated victory

    More than 100,000 people attended the closing of the campaign of Andrés Manuel López Obrador at the Azteca stadium

    The candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador closed his electoral campaign last Wednesday ahead the presidential elections on Sunday filling the largest stadium in the world on a working day. The only leftist candidate steals public attention in Mexico and leads the polls with an anti-system and reforming discourse.

  • Wednesday, June 27th 2018 - 08:38 UTC

    Pence in Brazil exposes US government's double standard on fleeing migrants

    Pence said he had a message “straight from (his) heart” for Central Americans, who account for many of those crossing from Mexico into the U.S.

    United States Vice-president Mike Pence thanked Brazil on Tuesday for welcoming Venezuelans fleeing their country’s collapse, while warning Central Americans running from violence in their homelands not to attempt to enter the United States illegally.

  • Wednesday, June 27th 2018 - 08:33 UTC

    A powerful aide of Lula provisionally released from jail pending an appeal

    Dirceu, a crucial leader in the Workers' Party (PT), was sentenced to 30 years and nine months in prison for corruption, money laundering and criminal association

    A Brazilian court ordered on Tuesday the provisional liberation of former minister Jose Dirceu, who was one of the most important figures in the government of former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the state-owned Agencia Brasil said.

  • Wednesday, June 27th 2018 - 08:26 UTC

    Brazilian shares recover cautiously; Central bank absent from the foreign exchange market

    Petrobras' shares (+2.16%) rose reflecting the expectation that company should be able to appeal against the billion-dollar labor lawsuit it recently lost

    After trading lower for a good part of Tuesday's session, the Ibovespa closed higher for the third consecutive day (+0.64%), to 71,404.59 points, driven mainly by the shares of Petrobras and Vale. The improvement in the U.S. stock markets also helped to recover the benchmark stock index in Brazil, although concerns remain about a world trade war.

  • Tuesday, June 26th 2018 - 17:39 UTC

    “Uniting the world against terrorism”: OP-ED on the United Nations conference on counter-terrorism

    With the military defeat of ISIL in Syria and Iraq, large numbers of these ideologically-driven mercenaries are relocating to other theatres of conflict or returning home, passing on their battlefield

    NEW YORK — Terrorism is a persistent and evolving global menace. No country is immune. Social media, encrypted communications and the dark web are being used to spread propaganda, radicalize new recruits and plan atrocities. The threat ranges from the crude tactics of lone actors to sophisticated coordinated attacks and the horrific prospect of terrorists using chemical, biological or radioactive weapons.

  • Tuesday, June 26th 2018 - 09:27 UTC

    UN message on the International Day against drug abuse

    “There are no easy solutions. But my own experience reinforces my strong conviction that we can chart a better path to counter the world drug problem.”

    Drug challenges are among the most complex problems we face, with wide-ranging impacts on health and well-being, families and communities, security and sustainable development.

  • Tuesday, June 26th 2018 - 09:17 UTC

    Argentine public service unions strike to protest IMF deal halts the country

    Banks and schools remained shut and Buenos Aires slowly emptied of traffic as the day progressed.

    Argentina ground to a halt on Monday as public service unions blocked road, rail and air transport with a nationwide 24-hour strike in protest at the government's latest deal with the International Monetary Fund. In a massive show of force against the conservative government of President Mauricio Macri, organizers said at least one million workers were taking part in the industrial action which halted trains, subways, buses and flights in Latin America's third-largest economy.