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Montevideo, July 4th 2025 - 11:46 UTC

Politics

  • Thursday, February 18th 2016 - 07:16 UTC

    Russian Patriarch holds mass at the Bellingshausen Antarctic base

    “Here, at the top of the world… When I blessed water in Antarctica today I was thinking about the entire planet below and prayed for this God’s creation,”

    Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill on Wednesday served mass at Russia’s Bellingshausen Antarctic station on Waterloo Island and raised a prayer for the entire world. It was the last leg of the Patriarch's Latin American tour that included a meeting with Pope Francis in Cuba, ending a Christianity schism of almost a thousand years.

  • Thursday, February 18th 2016 - 07:08 UTC

    Obama expected to make a historic visit to Cuba sometime in March

    ABC and CNN reported the news of the Obama visit, which went without confirmation from White House officials

    United States President Barack Obama will make a historic visit to Cuba within the next month, the culmination of his efforts to end a half-century of tensions between Havana and Washington, ABC and CNN reported late Wednesday.

  • Thursday, February 18th 2016 - 06:57 UTC

    S&P sends Brazil's credit rating deeper into junk territory; officials 'surprised'

    S&P cut Brazil's sovereign credit rating to BB from BB+ with a negative outlook, just five months after becoming the first agency to strip it of its investment grade

    Standard & Poor's downgraded Brazil's credit rating deeper into junk territory on Wednesday, citing its failure to curb its fiscal deficit, in a surprise blow to President Dilma Rousseff`s bid to haul the economy out of its worst recession in decades.

  • Thursday, February 18th 2016 - 06:51 UTC

    US congressional delegation visits Gibraltar in support of self determination

    Democratic Lois Frankel (Florida) said Americans believe in democracy and people’s right to vote for who should be in charge of their political lives.

    A visiting delegation from the Congress of the United States has praised Gibraltar's economy and spoken of why they co-sponsored a bill supporting Gibraltar’s right to self-determination in the House of Representatives.

  • Thursday, February 18th 2016 - 06:19 UTC

    Falklands' oil industry continues to advance, despite current low prices

    “The development strategy presented for Sea Lion is through use of a FPSO vessel, which adds flexibility and for which leasing costs have halved”.

    Despite current low oil prices, the oil and gas industry in the Falkland Islands is continuing to go from strength to strength as its first project, Premier Oil’s Sea Lion, moves closer to commercialization, according to an analyst with research and consulting firm GlobalData.

  • Thursday, February 18th 2016 - 01:03 UTC

    Malvinas, a dream that can be rescued

    Dante Caputo was foreign minister between 1983 and 1989 under ex president Raúl Alfonsín

    Under this heading Dante Caputo, a former Argentine foreign minister (1983/89) with an impeccable domestic and international academic background addresses the 'Malvinas question' and proposes Argentina sets a 2033 target for a new attempt on the Islands, this time trying to convince the Falkland Islanders, and that in seventeen years time, the country is reliable and sovereignty discussions should then take place.

  • Wednesday, February 17th 2016 - 11:11 UTC

    Pollack announces a new settlement with Argentine bondholders

    “I am very pleased to report that Argentina has reached an Agreement in Principle to settle the Brecher Class Action” said Special Master Daniel Pollack

    The court-appointed mediator in the bonds dispute says Argentina has reached a settlement with bondholders seeking about 1% of the US$10 billion being pursued by investors. Mediator Daniel Pollack announced on Tuesday in New York the deal in the class action case. The deal came nearly two weeks after he announced two of six leading bondholders settled claims for more than US$1 billion.

  • Wednesday, February 17th 2016 - 11:04 UTC

    Main oil exporters agree to freeze production, ...if all leading producers join

    The quartet said they would freeze output at January levels, which Saudi oil minister Ali al-Naimi called “adequate.”

    Four of the world's biggest oil-producing nations moved to freeze their production on Tuesday to try to halt the 70 percent drop in the price of crude because of a glut of oil on world markets. The agreement was reached by the oil ministers of Russia and three members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela and Qatar, during a closed-door meeting in Doha, the Qatar capital.

  • Wednesday, February 17th 2016 - 10:10 UTC

    British Defence Secretary, Michael Fallon, visits the Falklands

    Michael Fallon arrvies to Stanley from MPA onboard a SAR Sea King

    Michael Fallon, the British Defence Secretary, has become the first Defence Secretary to visit the Falkland Islands in 14 years. The House of Commons is currently in recess this week and the Defence Secretary’s visit directly follows the visit of four other British MPs to the Falklands.

  • Tuesday, February 16th 2016 - 20:41 UTC

    Utterly Committed to Self-Determination; British MPs visit the Falklands.

    The group of MPs were invited to visit by the Falkland Islands Government

    Four British Members of Parliament have been in the Falkland Islands over the past week, whilst the House of Commons is in recess. The cross-party group includes two Labour and two Conservative MPs, with an FIG Representative from London accompanying them.