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Montevideo, November 5th 2025 - 10:01 UTC

Politics

  • Tuesday, March 8th 2016 - 07:00 UTC

    With Lula a weakened myth, Rousseff is fighting for her political life on several fronts

    On Friday, “an atomic bomb” was thrown at Rousseff's Workers' Party with the brief detention of her mentor and charismatic predecessor, Lula da Silva.

    Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff is fighting for her political life in Congress, the courts and streets this week, but her path to survival has got ever narrower, analysts said on Monday. Rousseff faces impeachment proceedings over alleged fiscal mismanagement, while the Supreme Electoral Court is considering possible campaign funding irregularities that could end up annulling her 2014 reelection.

  • Tuesday, March 8th 2016 - 06:33 UTC

    International Women’s Day celebrations champion a Planet 50-50 by 2030

    At UN Headquarters, prominent speakers from governments, businesses and civil society will convene to debate how to advance women’s empowerment

    International Women's Day celebrations on 8 March will mobilize people around the world to call for a Planet 50-50 by 2030. UN Women is organizing a series of diverse, high-profile events in over 40 countries, where ordinary citizens, activists, musicians, athletes, students, security personnel, scholars and stock exchange officials will be among those who commit to “Stepping It Up for Gender Equality.”

  • Tuesday, March 8th 2016 - 06:15 UTC

    International Women's Day: “From the Glass Ceiling to a Carpet of Shards”

    “I appointed the first-ever female Force Commander of UN troops, and pushed women’s representation at the upper levels of our Organization to historic highs”

    By UN Secretary General, Ban Ki moon - As a boy growing up in post-war Korea, I remember asking about a tradition I observed: women going into labor would leave their shoes at the threshold and then look back in fear. “They are wondering if they will ever step into those shoes again,” my mother explained.

  • Monday, March 7th 2016 - 14:33 UTC

    UK/Uruguay training and academic exchange program in science and math's education

    UK ambassador Lyster-Binns, with Education Minister Maria Julia Muñoz, and the head of the Education Training Council (CFE) Ana Lopater in Maldonado

    The United Kingdom and Uruguay are implementing a program in science education and innovation, part of an ambitious umbrella project which consists of a series of training opportunities offered by British experts in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) for almost 100 teachers of primary and secondary school and teacher trainers, due to an agreement with CFE.

  • Monday, March 7th 2016 - 05:12 UTC

    Argentina's YPF planning to cut capital expenditure by at least 20/25%

    “We do not see a meaningful production growth this year,” Chief Executive Officer Miguel Galuccio told an investor conference call.

    Argentina's state-controlled energy company YPF will cut capital expenditure by at least 20-25% this year to mitigate the impact of the global oil price rout — leading to growing concerns among union leaders, who claim up to 2,000 workers would be laid off because of the company’s decision.

  • Monday, March 7th 2016 - 04:47 UTC

    China anticipates rough times as it tries to create jobs and restructure the economy

    “Our country's development faces more and greater difficulties...so we must be prepared for a tough battle,” Li said.

    China faces a tough battle to keep its economy growing by at least 6.5% over the next five years while creating more jobs and restructuring inefficient industries, Premier Li Keqiang said as he opened China's annual parliament.

  • Monday, March 7th 2016 - 04:40 UTC

    The Football Association Board approves the use of video technology to aid referees

    “We have taken a really historic decision for soccer. IFAB and FIFA are now leading the debate and not stopping the debate,” new FIFA president Infantino

    Soccer's law-makers gave the green light this weekend to the use of video technology to aid referees in live matches starting no later than the 2017-18 season. The International Football Association Board (IFAB), the games law-making body, approved a two-year trial period allowing technology to be used in four questionable cases: to determine if a goal has been scored, sending off, penalties and mistaken identity.

  • Monday, March 7th 2016 - 04:26 UTC

    Montevideo/Falklands/Malvinas air link is “viable”, says ex Uruguayan president

    Ex president Lacalle Herrera insisted that an air bridge between Montevideo and the Falklands/Malvinas Islands is 'viable'

    Uruguay's former president Luis Lacalle Herrera said that an air bridge between Montevideo and the Falklands/Malvinas Islands is 'viable' and was optimistic about such an opportunity in the near future.

  • Monday, March 7th 2016 - 04:06 UTC

    Tax agreement between United Kingdom and Uruguay

    “It is a good deal for British and Uruguayan companies and individuals with interests in both countries”, said Ambassador Lyster-Binns to Uruguayan Vice President Nin Novoa

    United Kingdom and Uruguay signed a convention to avoid double taxation and prevent fiscal evasion related to taxes on income and on capital. British Ambassador Ben Lyster-Binns and the Uruguayan Foreign Minister Rodolfo Nin Novoa signed the agreement in a ceremony at the Palacio Santos in Montevideo.

  • Saturday, March 5th 2016 - 10:24 UTC

    UN requests to know why Argentine social leader Milagro Sala remains in jail

    Charges were filed against Sala in January for instigation of ''crimes and sedition'', after staging a sit-in against Jujuy Governor Gerardo Morales, an ally of Macri.

    United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention wants Argentine President Mauricio Macri to explain why social leader Milagro Sala has been in jail for almost two months. The request comes two weeks after the UN Group accepted a filing submitted by the Centre of Legal and Social Studies (CELS), Amnesty International and Andhes, a group of lawyers from the northern area of the country.