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Montevideo, July 7th 2025 - 19:24 UTC

Politics

  • Thursday, June 16th 2016 - 06:55 UTC

    Germany warns Brexit could lead to the European block's disintegration

    “A vote to leave would shake the union,” German foreign minister Steinmeier said at a joint news conference in Brandenburg.

    If the United Kingdom votes to leave the EU next week, the move could ultimately lead to the bloc's disintegration, Germany's foreign minister has warned. Frank-Walter Steinmeier was speaking near Berlin after talks with his French counterpart, Jean-Marc Ayrault.

  • Wednesday, June 15th 2016 - 12:40 UTC

    Brexit: What if?

    A consequence is the resignation of PM David Cameron, whose position will become impossible. It was he who promised a needless referendum three years ago

    By Gwynne Dyer - After months in which opinion polls showed a six to ten percentage points lead for the 'Remain' side in the referendum campaign on continued British membership of the European Union (EU), the numbers have suddenly shifted in favor of 'Leave'.

  • Wednesday, June 15th 2016 - 11:46 UTC

    Rio Games receive the blessing from Olympic Committee president

    Bach said “we have confidence in Brazilian democracy.” Bach and Temer met at the Barra de Tijuca Olympic Park, the largest venue for the Games.

    International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach said on Tuesday he was “happy” with interim Brazilian president Michel Temer's commitment to the Rio Games, following his first meeting with the host country's new leader.

  • Wednesday, June 15th 2016 - 07:54 UTC

    Brexit debate escalates: Remains warn of a fiscal “black hole”; Vote Leave slams “hysterical prophecies”

    Chancellor Osborne will share a stage with his Labour predecessor, Lord Darling, setting out £30bn of “illustrative” tax rises and spending cuts

    UK Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne says he will have to slash public spending and increase taxes in an emergency Budget to tackle a £30bn “black hole” if the UK votes to leave the European Union. The chancellor will say this could include raising income and inheritance taxes and cutting the NHS budget.

  • Wednesday, June 15th 2016 - 07:15 UTC

    Kerry announces at OAS assembly high-level talks to ease tensions with Venezuela

    Kerry said the talks would start immediately in Caracas and be led by Thomas Shannon, a veteran of U.S. diplomacy in the region.

    United States Secretary of State John Kerry announced high-level talks to ease tensions with Venezuela's populist government on Tuesday, just hours after he backed calls for a referendum that could force President Nicolas Maduro from office. Kerry said the talks would start immediately in Caracas and be led by Thomas Shannon, a veteran of U.S. diplomacy in the region. Attempts last year at dialogue between the ideological foes were stalled by Venezuela's deepening crisis.

  • Wednesday, June 15th 2016 - 05:26 UTC

    An Argentine ex-Kirchnerite official caught red-handed trying to hide bags of cash in a monastery

    The ex-Kirchnerite official was arrested after neighbors warned authorities about the presence of a man throwing bags over a dividing line of bushes.

    An Argentine former secretary of Public Works with the Cristina Fernandez administration, Jose Lopez, and currently a member of the Mercosur parliament, was arrested on Tuesday in the Buenos Aires province locality of General Rodríguez while he was trying to hide bags full of money and an automatic gun in the garden of a convent.

  • Tuesday, June 14th 2016 - 17:07 UTC

    Falklands commemorates 34th anniversary of Liberation Day

    A ceremony is held at the Liberation Monument each year on the 14th June to mark the end of the Falklands War and to honour those who fought during the conflict, and was lead by Parade Commander Major

    Commemorations are being held today in the Falkland Islands to mark the ending of the Falklands War, which ended 34 years ago after 74 days of Argentine occupation. Liberation Day as it is officially known in the Falklands is commemorated every year on the 14th June in the Islands and is a national holiday.

  • Tuesday, June 14th 2016 - 12:23 UTC

    Maduro appeals to bureaucratic chicaneries to impede the recall referendum

    Maduro's opponents warn Venezuela risks exploding into unrest without a vote on sacking the populist leader, whom they blame for the economic crisis

    Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's allies asked the Supreme Court on Monday to block a bid to call a referendum on sacking him, accusing the opposition of “fraud.” The move casts doubt on the recall vote sought by the opposition, which accuses the high court of pro-Maduro bias and has clashed with it repeatedly since winning control of congress in December.

  • Tuesday, June 14th 2016 - 12:15 UTC

    “No animosity at all towards the president”, said Macorra following a meeting with Pope Francis

    Allegedly the Pope rejected a 16,7m Pesos contribution to a papal foundation, Scholas Occurrentes

    “There is no animosity”, said Argentine Foreign Minister Susana Malcorra after meeting with Pope Francis in Rome on the sidelines of an event sponsored by the United Nations, just days after the pontiff publicly rejected a multi-million-peso “donation” from the administration of President Mauricio Macri destined for the pope’s Scholas Occurrentes program.

  • Tuesday, June 14th 2016 - 12:04 UTC

    ECB purchases 348bn Euros of corporate bonds in the first three days

    The ECB added investment grade, non-bank corporate bonds to its asset-buying program from June 8 to make borrowing cheaper

    The European Central Bank bought 348 million Euros of corporate bonds in the first three days of such purchases last week, it said on Monday, as part of its 1.74 trillion Euro scheme to revive growth and inflation. The figures are at the upper end of analyst predictions, indicating a strong start for the program and suggesting that the ECB was keen to show it can buy significant volumes.