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Montevideo, July 6th 2025 - 10:14 UTC

Politics

  • Friday, June 3rd 2016 - 06:40 UTC

    Falklands are “my homeland”, with the right to freely choose our own future

    Ms. Krysteen Ormond, JP, Falkland Islands Government Representative to the United Nations Decolonization Committee

    The Falklands are a people, “my homeland”, with the right to freely choose our own future, as enshrined as leading principle in the UN Charter and safeguarded by the several covenants on civil and political rights, said Falklands' government representative Krysteen Ormond addressing the Pacific Regional Seminar of the C24, Special Decolonization Committee.

  • Thursday, June 2nd 2016 - 09:11 UTC

    Temer's home in Sao Paulo is fenced off to keep protestors away

    Police officers and members of the presidential security are posted in front of the home, where Temer usually spends weekends and his younger son and his wife live.

    Brazil's acting president, Michel Temer, put a fence around his home in Sao Paulo to prevent protesters gathered in the vicinity from harassing his family. The measure, authorities said, was taken to “strengthen” the security surrounding the family of the interim president after on May 22 riot police dispersed a demonstration before his house.

  • Thursday, June 2nd 2016 - 08:49 UTC

    US defense bill includes one billion dollars to fund a new polar icebreaker

    Senator Cochran said the bill recommends $1 billion in Navy shipbuilding funds to procure the first U.S. Coast Guard-operated icebreaker in more than 25 years.

    The U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee's Defense Appropriations Bill has included one billion dollars in funding to accelerate construction of a new polar icebreaker for the U.S. Coast Guard, reported Senator Thad Cochran (R-Miss.).

  • Thursday, June 2nd 2016 - 08:29 UTC

    Antarctic Treaty parties reaffirm commitment to ban on mining in the Antarctic

    ”Parties stand firm in their commitment that preserving the continent as a place of peace and science is more important than financial gain” said Claire Christian

    The 29 countries party to the Antarctic Treaty unanimously agreed on Wednesday to a resolution at the 39th Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting (ATCM) stating their “firm commitment to retain and continue to implement…as a matter of highest priority” the ban on mining activities in the Antarctic, which is part of the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty (also called the Madrid Protocol).

  • Thursday, June 2nd 2016 - 08:14 UTC

    Falkland’s set to appoint Barry Rowland as new Chief Executive

    Barry Rowland formerly worked as Chief Executive for Newcastle City Council before leaving in 2012.

    The Falkland Island’s Government (FIG) announced yesterday that a conditional offer of employment had been accepted in principle by Mr. Barry Rowland for the position of Chief Executive. Current FIG Chief Executive, Keith Padgett, is retiring later this year after serving as head of the civil service for the past 5 years.

  • Thursday, June 2nd 2016 - 07:31 UTC

    Brazil's economy plunges 5.4% in the first quarter compared to a year ago

    The result confirms analysts' expectations that Brazil's economic performance in 2016 will be roughly similar to last year, when GDP shrank 3.8%

    Brazil's economy sank further into recession in the first quarter, contracting 5.4% relative to the same three-month period of last year, the government said Wednesday. Compared with the final quarter of 2015, the economy shrank by 0.3%, according to the state-run Brazilian Institute for Geography and Statistics, or IBGE.

  • Thursday, June 2nd 2016 - 06:48 UTC

    UK and Germany side by side at the centenary of the biggest naval engagement of WW One

    The battle was fought near the coast of Denmark on 31 May and 1 June 1916 and involved about 250 ships.

    The centenary of the biggest naval engagement of World War One was marked by commemorative events on Tuesday, 31 May. A service at St Magnus Cathedral in Orkney paid tribute to the 8,648 sailors who died during the Battle of Jutland and a service of remembrance also took place on board HMS Duncan at Jutland Bank, the site of the battle.

  • Wednesday, June 1st 2016 - 08:51 UTC

    Night of fire and violence in Ushuaia as protestors are evicted from Government House grounds

    The strikers had been camping for almost three months outside Government House, limiting access, to protest an amendment to the pensions' scheme

    Ushuaia suffered a night of violence, tear and pepper gas and fire when riot police dislodged an 80-day protest camp and tents of striking teachers and government employees next to Tierra del Fuego Government House. Seven people were reported injured including a policeman and a fireman, when tents were set on fire, and unions claimed it was a savage and brutal display of government repression

  • Wednesday, June 1st 2016 - 08:40 UTC

    Ban Ki-moon emphasizes on the 'freely expressed will' for non-self-governing territories

    The Secretary General said that the full measure of self-government can be achieved through independence, integration or free association with another State.

    According to the UN charter the full measure of self-government of the peoples of the Non-Self-Governing Territories must be the result of the freely expressed will and desire of those peoples, said UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in his message to the opening of the Pacific Regional Seminar on Decolonization, currently taking place in Managua, Nicaragua.

  • Wednesday, June 1st 2016 - 06:28 UTC

    Brazilians disenchanted with their elected officials and a majority believes “nothing will change”

    When asked if they thought congress was acting on behalf of the public’s interest during the ongoing impeachment process, only 23% said yes and 63% said no.

    Brazilians have become increasingly disappointed with politics and their elected politicians, according to an Ibope Intelligence opinion poll collecting reactions to the current political situations, which has a suspended president, Dilma Rousseff; an interim leader Michel Temer, and a divided Congress.