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Montevideo, July 5th 2026 - 00:32 UTC

Politics

  • Tuesday, August 1st 2017 - 08:03 UTC

    Falklands' government announces the on line Statute Law Database

    The important publication achieves the Government’s Islands Plan object to improve access to the law, and reflects a vital commitment to uphold the rule of law

    The Falkland Islands Government has announced the on-line publication of the laws of the Falkland Islands. A public demonstration of the on-line Statute Law Database will take place in Stanley at the Court and Council Chamber at 5.30pm on Wednesday 2 August 2017. Members of the public may also access a paper copy of the Statute Law Database through the public library.

  • Tuesday, August 1st 2017 - 07:44 UTC

    Bank of England staff three day strike; first industrial action in over half a century

    Employees are unhappy about a below inflation pay rise of 1%; protestors plan to gather outside the BoE building wearing masks of Governor Mark Carney.

    A three-day strike by Bank of England support staff will go ahead after talks at the conciliation service Acas ended without agreement, the Unite union said. Employees are unhappy about a below inflation pay rise of 1% and protestors are planning to gather outside the Bank of England building wearing masks of Governor Mark Carney.

  • Tuesday, August 1st 2017 - 07:24 UTC

    PM May's office denies freedom of movement will continue once UK leaves EU

    Downing Street moved to make clear free movement will end when the UK leaves. It said: “It would be wrong to suggest it... will continue as it is now.”

    Suggestions that freedom of movement will continue after the United Kingdom leaves the EU are wrong, Downing Street has said. Last Friday, Chancellor Philip Hammond warned full controls could take “some time”, prompting speculation free movement may continue in all but name after the UK leaves in March 2019.

  • Tuesday, August 1st 2017 - 07:06 UTC

    Argentine Peso rises against the US dollar as Central Bank shows its muscle

    President Macri let the currency float shortly after taking office in December 2015, removing the controls that ex populist president Cristina Fernandez put in place

    Argentina's Peso rose against the dollar on Monday for the first time in two weeks, after the central bank intervened in the foreign exchange markets on Friday to halt the currency's rapid decline to historic lows, when it reached 18 Pesos.

  • Tuesday, August 1st 2017 - 06:46 UTC

    “Dictator” Maduro mocks “imperialist” Trump's sanctions

    U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin announced the sanctions Monday, calling Maduro a “dictator” who ignores the will of the Venezuelan people.

    United States has imposed sanctions on Venezuela's president, Nicolas Maduro, over what it called his “illegitimate” election of an assembly to rewrite the constitution. All of Maduro's assets in the United States are frozen and Americans are forbidden from doing any business with him.

  • Tuesday, August 1st 2017 - 06:36 UTC

    Hammond in Brazil announced the doubling of support for bilateral trade

    Chancellor of the Exchequer in Brasilia with his counterpart Henrique Meirelles

    The Chancellor, Philip Hammond, has unveiled a series of new commercial agreements with Brazil on Monday, on day one of his visit to showcase British business and deepen trade and economic ties with South America’s biggest economies. Among the measures has been doubling support to £3 billion, to promote bilateral trade.

  • Tuesday, August 1st 2017 - 06:25 UTC

    Hammond arrives in Argentina on trade mission; scheduled to meet Macri

    Hammond is scheduled to meet president Mauricio Macri, Economy minister Nicolas Dujovne, Finance minister Luis Caputo and foreign minister Jorge Faurie.

    Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond is scheduled to arrive in Buenos Aires Tuesday evening following a two day business promotion visit to Brazil. It will be the first time a leading UK cabinet minister sets foot in Argentina in sixteen years; the last was when ex Prime Minister Tony Blair met ex president Fernando De la Rua in the Iguazu falls in 2001.

  • Monday, July 31st 2017 - 09:57 UTC

    Cabinet in a state of civil war over Brexit, says Lib-Dem leader Vince Cable

    Vince Cable said the latest clash “reveals a deep, unbridgeable chasm between the Brexit fundamentalist and the pragmatists”.

    The rift between senior ministers on how long to allow the free movement of people after Brexit shows “all the signs of a Cabinet in a state of civil war”, Vince Cable has said. The Liberal Democrat leader's remarks come after International Trade Secretary Liam Fox dismissed the idea that a consensus had been reached on the issue by the Prime Minister's top table.

  • Monday, July 31st 2017 - 08:18 UTC

    Putin reacts to sanctions and expels 755 US diplomats from Moscow

    “The personnel of the US diplomatic missions in Russia will be cut by 755 people and will equal the number of Russian diplomatic personnel in the United States”

    Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a television interview that the U.S. must cut the size of its diplomatic force in his country by more than half, from about 1,210 to 455. Putin said on Sunday that the cut will make the size of the U.S. diplomatic mission in his country equal to that of Russia's diplomatic corps in the U.S.

  • Monday, July 31st 2017 - 08:10 UTC

    Decisive vote in Brazilian lower house for president Temer's future in office

    The Temer administration seems confident that the opposition will not gather the 342 votes - from a total of 513 - required to advance with the corruption charge.

    The Brazilian Congress will return from recess this week and could bring back political uncertainty fears to local markets, as lawmakers are set to decide on Wednesday if the Supreme Court should trial President Michel Temer for corruption. Temer was formally charged with passive corruption by the prosecutor-general Rodrigo Janot at the end of last month.