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Montevideo, July 8th 2026 - 01:57 UTC

Politics

  • Wednesday, April 4th 2018 - 09:04 UTC

    Minister Faurie in France addresses bilateral relations and Mercosur/EU talks

    Faurie and Jean-Yves Le Drian agreed that the world is immersed in a debate between economic nationalism and multilateralism

    Argentine foreign minister Jorge Faurie met on Tuesday in Paris with his French peer Jean-Yves Le Drian to address current political and economic bilateral relations, as well as the latest advances in the Mercosur/European Union negotiations.

  • Wednesday, April 4th 2018 - 08:58 UTC

    Falklands' veteran supports Everton Argentine player Funes Mori: “he is entitled to his opinion”

    Edward Denmark, who fought in the Falklands war, said it showed “integrity” for Ramiro Funes Mori to support his country

    A Falklands war veteran has said that Everton’s player Ramiro Funes Mori is “entitled to his opinion“ after a controversial tweet went viral. The Argentine defender posted, “Las Malvinas son argentinas” which translates as “the Falkland Islands are Argentine” on the anniversary of Argentina’s invasion of the Falklands, April 2nd.

  • Wednesday, April 4th 2018 - 08:31 UTC

    Commonwealth Games program: England listed as part of Africa

    Both England and Gambia had taken it in good humor, he said. England had also declined the offer of a complete re-print.

    England have been listed as an African nation with capital Banjul in the official program for the Commonwealth Games’ opening ceremony, leaving Gold Coast organizers red-faced. The program, being sold at newsagents and merchandise tents around the Queensland resort, has England’s population listed at just over two million and their first Commonwealth Games appearance in 1970.

  • Wednesday, April 4th 2018 - 08:21 UTC

    Supreme Tribunal vote on Lula's political future will divide Brazil: calls for calm to avoid social disorder

    Lula da Silva, who was once wildly popular after his two terms as president, was convicted last year of helping a construction company get sweetheart contracts

    Brazil's top court could rule as soon as this Wednesday whether former President Lula da Silva can stay out of prison while appealing a corruption conviction, a decision that could radically alter October's presidential election in Latin America's largest nation.

  • Wednesday, April 4th 2018 - 08:04 UTC

    Falkland Islanders react to Argentine Next of Kin Visit

    Throughout the process the Falklands government have actively allowed for and facilitated the work, seeing it through purely humanitarian terms.

    As Mercopress have covered, families of 90 unidentified soldiers visited the Falkland Islands from Argentina last week. They spent the day at the Argentine military cemetery at Darwin and paid respects to their sons, brothers and partners whose remains were recently identified after a lengthy DNA process administered by the International Committee of the Red Cross.

  • Tuesday, April 3rd 2018 - 19:06 UTC

    Argentine Jewish community honors first woman submariner, who remains missing in the Atlantic

    Eliana María Krawczyk, 35, who is Jewish, is one of 44 crew members of the Argentine submarine ARA San Juan, which remains missing in the Atlantic

    The first female submarine officer in Argentina, who remains missing in the Atlantic Ocean, was honored by the country’s Jewish community on International Women’s Month. Eliana María Krawczyk, 35, who is Jewish, is one of 44 crew members of the Argentine submarine ARA San Juan, which remains missing in the Atlantic four months after it fell off the radar with a one week supply of oxygen on board.

  • Tuesday, April 3rd 2018 - 09:20 UTC

    Cunha, the driving force of Rousseff's impeachment sentenced to 15 years

    Cunha, was forced from his position as speaker in July and arrested in October on accusations he received millions in bribes

    Brazilian court has sentenced the former speaker of the country’s lower house, Eduardo Cunha to more than 15 years in prison for corruption. The ex Worker’s Party member is the highest profile political conviction yet in the ‘operation car wash’ scandal.

  • Tuesday, April 3rd 2018 - 09:06 UTC

    Temer reshuffles cabinet ahead of 7 October general elections

    Temer's presidential palace announced on Saturday that Gilberto Occhi, CEO of state-run bank Caixa Econômica Federal, will assume as the new health minister.

    More than one-third of the ministers in Temer’s cabinet are expected to resign this week to campaign in the 7 October general elections. The most outstanding figure of the lot is Finance minister Henrique Meirelles who is tipped to become the ruling PMDB presidential candidate, following his success in putting the Brazilian economy back on a growth track.

  • Tuesday, April 3rd 2018 - 08:58 UTC

    Anti Iran coalition: Saudi crown prince touring the US moves closer to Israel

    The Crown prince said Palestinians and Israelis have the right to have their own land, but a peace agreement is needed to assure the stability for everyone

    Saudi Arabia’s crown prince said Israelis are entitled to live peacefully on their own land in an interview published on Monday in U.S. magazine The Atlantic, another public sign of ties between Riyadh and Tel Aviv appearing to grow closer. Asked if he believes the Jewish people have a right to a nation-state in at least part of their ancestral homeland, Mohammed bin Salman was quoted as saying:

  • Tuesday, April 3rd 2018 - 08:12 UTC

    The central ceremony of the Malvinas war 36th anniversary is held in Ushuaia

    “Many of our heroes died defending that piece of motherland soil so that our flag could again fly. That is why Malvinas is so convoking” underlined Frigerio

    On the 36th anniversary of the beginning of the 1982 South Atlantic conflict Argentine Interior minister Rogelio Frigerio called “for intelligent ways to advance in our legitimate claim of the Malvinas Islands' sovereignty”. Frigerio was the main speaker at the central event of the 36th anniversary held this Monday in Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego province, next to the Beagle channel.