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Montevideo, April 26th 2026 - 03:09 UTC

Politics

  • Thursday, March 16th 2017 - 05:37 UTC

    Scotland will be out of the EU either with UK or independent, PM May tells SNP leader

    Mrs. May said Scotland will be leaving the European Union, it will leave the European Union either as a member of the UK or were it independent.

    Prime Minister Theresa May has claimed that Scotland will be leaving the European Union regardless of whether or not it votes for independence. Speaking during an exchange with the SNP's Angus Robertson, Theresa May also warned against “constitutional game-playing”.

  • Thursday, March 16th 2017 - 04:56 UTC

    Political seism in Brazil: prosecutor asks Supreme Court to open 83 new graft investigations

    Prosecutor General Rodrigo Janot also requested that the Court send 211 other requests to lower courts based on testimony by executives of Odebrecht

    Brazil's top public prosecutor seismically expanded a corruption probe of the country's political establishment on Tuesday, asking the Supreme Court to open 83 new investigations of politicians named in explosive plea bargain testimony. Prosecutor General Rodrigo Janot also requested that the Court send 211 other requests to lower courts based on much-anticipated testimony by executives of engineering group Odebrecht implicated in Brazil's biggest-ever graft scandal.

  • Wednesday, March 15th 2017 - 08:04 UTC

    Lula da Silva denies all charges in court; “I have been a victim for three years”

    ”I have absolutely no reason to have any problem with the testimony of Cervero, no reason at all. I don't know (him),” Lula said, according to a video from the court.

    Brazil's former president has appeared in court to deny allegations he was part of a plot to obstruct a massive corruption probe by keeping a former Petrobras executive from revealing what he knew. News media websites in Brazil published Tuesday's testimony by Lula da Silva, who told a federal court in Brasilia that he didn't even know Nestor Cervero, a former director of the State oil company.

  • Wednesday, March 15th 2017 - 07:56 UTC

    Two US airlines cancel flights to Cuba: excess of capacity

    Airline Frontier is canceling its Miami-Havana route starting next June 4 due to unforeseen high costs, and also because of the low demand.

    On Monday, two US airlines announced that they have plans to cancel their flights to Cuba, one of which is Fort Lauderdale-based Silver Airways, whose representatives said they had made the “difficult but necessary” decision to cancel its services to Cuba from April 22.

  • Wednesday, March 15th 2017 - 07:26 UTC

    Scottish support for independence at its highest, but EU popularity has fallen

    The survey showed a higher level of support for independence than at any time since 1999 and double the level registered when the independence referendum

    Support for Scottish independence is at its highest-ever level, according to an academic study, but the Scottish Social Attitudes survey also suggested the popularity of the European Union has fallen. The researchers said this suggested focusing on EU membership may not be the best way to swing more voters towards independence.

  • Wednesday, March 15th 2017 - 07:12 UTC

    Trump furious: media leak shows he paid US$ 38m in tax on income of US$ 150m in 2005

    Mr. Trump refused to release his tax returns during the election campaign, breaking with a long-held tradition.

    US President Donald Trump paid US$38m in tax on more than US$150m income in 2005, a leaked tax return shows. Two pages of the tax return were revealed by US TV network MSNBC, triggering an angry response from the White House, arguing that publishing the tax return was illegal.

  • Wednesday, March 15th 2017 - 06:52 UTC

    Temer moved out of the presidential palace because of “bad energy and ghosts”

    “I felt something strange there. I wasn’t able to sleep from the first night. The energy wasn’t good,” Temer admitted

    Brazilian president Michel Temer confessed in an interview with the leading news magazine Veja that he and his family moved out of the nation’s Alvorada Palace, the official presidential residence, over bad energy and “ghosts” that kept him and First Lady Marcela Temer from sleeping well at night.

  • Wednesday, March 15th 2017 - 06:38 UTC

    Mercosur expects to sign a trade deal with the EU by year end taking advantage of Trump's isolationism

    “The U.S. withdrawal from agreements like the Trans-Pacific Partnership [TPP] and the Atlantic Alliance undoubtedly opens new opportunities for us,” Nunes said.

    Mercosur expects to sign a framework accord this year for a trade deal with the European Union as the U.S. shift to isolationism under President Donald Trump encourages it to look outside the hemisphere for opportunities, Brazil's foreign minister Aloysio Nunes said on Tuesday.

  • Tuesday, March 14th 2017 - 21:28 UTC

    Is a second OPEC cut on the Cards?

    U.S. shale has been capping the upside: Brent has not breached US$58 per barrel. Analysts are now mostly predicting oil prices will remain below US$60 this year.

    OPEC's coordinated effort to curtail global supply has so far managed to put a floor under oil prices, which have been sitting modestly above US$50 since the deal was announced at the end of November last year. But resurging U.S. shale has been capping the upside, and Brent has not breached US$58 per barrel. Analysts and experts are now mostly predicting that oil prices will remain below US$60 this year.

  • Tuesday, March 14th 2017 - 21:23 UTC

    Mexico practices direct diplomacy with the Trump family at the White House

    Videgaray met Trump's son-in-law and senior advisor Jared Kushner, along with National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster and Gary Cohn, a top financial aid

    Mexico's top diplomat was in Washington last week for meetings with the U.S. government, sidestepping the normal channels and heading straight for the White House. Mexican Foreign Secretary Luis Videgaray met at the White House with President Trump's son-in-law and senior advisor Jared Kushner, along with National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster and Gary Cohn, a top financial aid, the Mexican government announced.