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Montevideo, February 27th 2026 - 21:10 UTC

Politics

  • Tuesday, December 6th 2016 - 06:19 UTC

    It's Official: Chapecoense are South American Cup Champions

    Conmebol declares Chapecoense winners of the match they were enroute to playing when their airplane crashed

    The South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL) Monday officially awarded the 2016 South American Cup title to the Brazilian team Chapecoense, who lost most of their players and staff as their airplane crashed in Colombia last week on its way to playing the final's first leg in Medellín against the local squad of Atlético Nacional, who was awarded the Conmebol's Fair Play Centennial prize.

  • Monday, December 5th 2016 - 21:36 UTC

    Italian “No” wave hits Euro in Japanese markets

    Political uncertainty in Europe brings Euro closer to the US dollar in Asia

    The euro tumbled on Monday in Tokyo following the results in a referendum held in Italy on Sunday to decide whether Prime Minister's Matteo Renzi's plan to reform the Constitution should be carried out. After conceding defeat, Renzi announced he would be submitting his resignation to President Sergio Mattarella on Monday. The referendum results raised political uncertainty at continental level.

  • Monday, December 5th 2016 - 11:31 UTC

    EU sigh of relief: Austria votes for independent, rejects anti migrant candidate

    Results released shortly after the polls closed on Sunday, showed Van der Bellen with 53.5% of the vote to Hofer's 46.4%.

    Independent candidate Alexander Van der Bellen, a pro-EU left wing who preached moderation, has won Austria's presidential election on Sunday over right-wing populist Norbert Hofer. A former leading member of the Green Party, Van der Bellen was the hope of Austrians who wanted to stop Hofer, a leader of the anti migrant and anti EU Freedom Party.

  • Monday, December 5th 2016 - 10:53 UTC

    Italy's Rienzi resigns following rejection of his proposed constitutional reforms

    Renzi conceded the referendum in an address to the country, saying that he “takes full responsibility” for its defeat, and announced that he intends to resign.

    Italian voters have dealt a serious defeat to the government of Prime Minister Matteo Renzi. In a referendum Sunday, they rejected Renzi's proposed constitutional reforms, which would have changed the balance of power between the executive and Parliament.

  • Monday, December 5th 2016 - 10:49 UTC

    New Zealand Prime minister steps down after eight years in office

    “Sometimes you've got to make hard decisions to make right decisions,” Key told reporters. “This is the hardest decision I've ever made”

    New Zealand Prime Minister John Key surprised his country, announcing that he would be resigning in a week's time. Key, who is also leader of the National Party, made his decision public at a press conference on Monday local time.

  • Monday, December 5th 2016 - 08:30 UTC

    Falklands: Argentine diplomats in Geneva for talks on identifying remains of soldiers at Darwin cemetery

    Of the 237 graves at the Argentine Memorial, 123 remain as “Argentine soldier only known unto God”.

    Diplomats from the Malvinas Desk of the Argentine Foreign ministry have travelled to Geneva for crucial meetings later this week with their British, Falklands counterparts and Red Cross members to reach a definitive agreement on the DNA tests for the identification of the remains of Argentine combatants buried in the Darwin cemetery, following the 1982 conflict, reports Clarin.

  • Monday, December 5th 2016 - 08:20 UTC

    “La Sanmaritiniana” reaches Puerto Deseado and is greeted by militant from a radical group

    The vessel spent over a year in the Falklands after it was rescued abandoned and adrift in October last year, Falklands Fisheries Protection vessel, FPV Protegat.

    The Argentine registered vessel “La Sanmartiniana” is reported to have reached Puerto Deseado, Santa Cruz province on Sunday, following a full week's sailing from Stanley, where it had left on Sunday 27 November. Militants and local authorities lined up at the port to celebrate her arrival.

  • Sunday, December 4th 2016 - 11:14 UTC

    Anniversary of the Battle of the Falkland Islands

    The 1914 Battle of the Falkland Islands Memorial

    Falkland Islands elected government has announced the following program for Thursday 8th December 2016 to commemorate the victory of the Naval engagements of 8th December 1914, on which day 6 British sailors lost their lives and a number of others died later from injuries received during the battle. 2,260 German sailors also lost their lives.

  • Saturday, December 3rd 2016 - 09:33 UTC

    Evo says he didn't know LAMIA was Bolivian, but flew doomed aircraft a fortnight before

    President Evo Morales flew aboard the LAMIA airplane a fortnight before the crash but says he did not know the airline was Bolivian.

    Bolivian President Evo Morales Friday admitted that LAMIA's general manager Gustavo Vargas Gamboa used to be one of his pilots but added that he did not know what he was working as after his retirement from the Air Force. He even denied knowing LAMIA was operating under Bolivian registration. A LAMIA British Aerospace 146 - RJ 85 crashed Monday night in Medellín, Colombia, killing 71 people onboard including five Bolivian nationals, although most victims were from the Brazilian Chapecoense football club.

  • Saturday, December 3rd 2016 - 09:27 UTC

    'Cuban' Maradona warns Macri might not make it past Christmas Day

    Looking at it from Communist Cuba, Diego Maradona sees a dark future for Argentine President Mauricio Macri.

    Argentine retired football player Diego Maradona, in Cuba to attend the funerals of his friend and former revolutionary leader Fidel Catro, hinted that should the people of his country choose to take to the streets, President Mauricio Macri might not be in office by Christmas.