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Montevideo, October 29th 2025 - 11:26 UTC

Politics

  • Monday, May 16th 2016 - 19:00 UTC

    “It looks like we're not going to have a good relationship”, Trump tells Cameron

    “Number one, I'm not stupid, OK? I can tell you that right now — just the opposite,” Trump told Morgan, at the Good Morning Britain breakfast show

    Republican hopeful Donald Trump has hit back at criticism from Britain's leaders by describing himself in an interview with Piers Morgan as “not stupid” and a “unifier.” The presumptive Republican nominee made the comment to Good Morning Britain, the breakfast show of NBC News' U.K. partner ITV.

  • Monday, May 16th 2016 - 18:56 UTC

    The Falklands would be safer after Brexit

    UK’s liberation of the Falklands, which strengthened the credibility of British power worldwide for decades, did not benefit at all from membership of the EEC

    By Julian Thompson for The Telegraph (*)

    As the EU referendum campaign enters its final stages, the Remain camp is resorting to ever more desperate fear tactics to win the argument. The latest – and most ludicrous – proposition is that the future of UK dependent territories will be under threat if we leave. Without EU support, we are told, Argentina would perceive Britain as “weakened” and might invade the Falklands.

  • Monday, May 16th 2016 - 18:49 UTC

    Venezuelan soldiers steal goats because no food is left in the barracks

    The incident was reported by El Nacional on its Sunday edition, with six soldiers detained by local authorities

    The situation in Venezuela has become so bad that even soldiers are struggling to support themselves. Over the weekend, six members of the Venezuelan military were detained by local authorities for stealing goats, the Venezuelan newspaper El Nacional reported on Sunday. It said the soldiers confessed to stealing the goats and said they did it to feed themselves, since they had no food left in their barracks.

  • Monday, May 16th 2016 - 07:35 UTC

    Guatemala/Belize conflict erupts following another border killing

    Guatemala slammed Belize for using “excessive force” and rejected the account of the Guatemalan man attempting to attack an armed patrol with a machete.

    Tensions over a disputed border between Guatemala and Belize again erupted over the weekend with a new shooting incident less than a month after Belizean soldiers killed a teen. Belize said one of its patrols had to shoot and wound a Guatemalan man who threatened them with a machete after he was found on the Belize side of the border with companions illegally prospecting for gold.

  • Monday, May 16th 2016 - 07:25 UTC

    Argentina's economy grows 0.8% during first quarter says Central bank

    “There are mixed signals in the economy. Consumption is falling but investment is growing”, Sturzenegger said. “We have high hopes for the second half of the year.”

    Argentina's economy grew 0.8% on the first quarter of the year compared to the same period last year, Central Bank Governor Federico Sturzenegger said, declaring that since President Mauricio Macri took office employment has remained “stable.”

  • Monday, May 16th 2016 - 07:15 UTC

    More trouble in FIFA: head of audit committee resigns; dispute over Infantino's salary

    The resignation marks the first major challenge to Mr Infantino's presidency since he was elected to succeed Sepp Blatter in February.

    Domenico Scala, chairman of FIFA’s audit and compliance committee, announced his resignation on Saturday following the implementation of a new measure at the world football governing body, which he believes will “deprive [the committee] of its independence”.

  • Monday, May 16th 2016 - 07:06 UTC

    FIFA appoints a woman from Senegal first secretary general

    Samoura, 54, spent 21 years working for the United Nations and will start at football's governing body in June.

    FIFA has appointed Fatma Samba Diouf Samoura from Senegal as the federation's first female secretary general. She succeeds former FIFA No.2 Jerome Valcke, who was recently banned from football for 12 years for a series of ethics violations.

  • Monday, May 16th 2016 - 06:57 UTC

    Chile set clocks back sixty minutes on Sunday to winter time

    Continental Chile will stand at a four hour difference with Greenwich international time, GMT, instead of the three hour difference during summer months

    As of midnight Sunday, May 15, Chile implemented winter time to save energy, which means clocks had to be put back a full sixty minutes. The measure is adopted every year following on a resolution from the Ministry of Energy and will be effective until 13 August.

  • Monday, May 16th 2016 - 06:15 UTC

    Temer government considering selling stakes of state controlled assets

    Temer's government is working with a list of companies and sectors that would be the first targets of any move toward sales of state-controlled holdings, said O Globo

    Brazil's government is considering selling stakes in state-controlled assets including its postal company as well as holdings in transport, power and insurance firms in a bid to raise capital and streamline the public sector, a newspaper reported on Sunday.

  • Monday, May 16th 2016 - 06:01 UTC

    Brazil's Jewish community supports Temer; hopeful of normalization of relations with Israel

    Temer was born in Sao Paulo, is Catholic and the son of Maronite Lebanese immigrants from Btaaboura, Koura district, neighboring Tripoli in north Lebanon

    The elevation of a centrist vice president, Michel Temer, as Brazil’s president amid the impeachment process of Dilma Rousseff is expected to result in a less strained relationship between Brazil and Israel, as well as its Jewish community, Jewish leaders in Sao Paulo said.