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Montevideo, July 4th 2025 - 18:37 UTC

Politics

  • Friday, May 3rd 2024 - 10:55 UTC

    The Inkerman Company leaves Falklands with spectacular live fire capability demonstration

    Inkerman Company on watch at a hill nest

    This week the latest Falkland Islands Roulement Infantry Company (FIRIC), The Inkerman Company, left the Mount Pleasant Complex, MPC, headquarters of the British Forces South Atlantic Islands, BFSAI. They ended their deployment with a fairly spectacular live fire capability demonstration centered around a light role infantry platoon doing a conventional advance to contact in front of almost 40 guests from all corners of BFSAI.

  • Thursday, May 2nd 2024 - 23:04 UTC

    Mujica's physician describes former president's condition

    “We are going to continue fighting this battle,” Panone said

    Former Uruguayan President José Pepe Mujica's physician Raquel Panone described the extent of her patient's cancer during a press conference in Montevideo. “Pepe has esophageal cancer. We did other studies that showed that he has no lesion in any other organ,” she said while admitting that the tumor was malignant, as doctors had already feared.

  • Thursday, May 2nd 2024 - 10:16 UTC

    Colombia breaks up with Israel over Gaza deployment

    Petro denounced Israeli PM Netanyahu's “genocidal” actions

    Colombian President Gustavo Petro Wednesday announced that his country would be severing diplomatic ties with Israel as of Thursday over the latter's military deployment in Gaza at the behest of its “genocidal” head of government. Petro also insisted that “if Palestine dies, humanity dies.”

  • Thursday, May 2nd 2024 - 06:38 UTC

    Falklands upgrades compensation for redundancy/unfair dismissal

    MLA Gavin Short, “I am extremely happy to see the approval of these much-needed updates to the Employment Protection Ordinance, particularly regarding the weekly pay cap”.

    The Falkland Islands Executive Council (ExCo) agreed on Tuesday 23 April, legislation updates have been approved for the Employment Protection Ordinance, specifically on compensation for redundancy/unfair dismissal.

  • Thursday, May 2nd 2024 - 06:18 UTC

    Iconic war Aircraft to be exhibited at the Falkland Islands Museum & National Trust

    A veteran Sea Harrier and Lynx await loading onto the Falklands supply ship at Marchwood Military Port in Southampton Water. Courtesy Royal Navy

    The Falkland Islands Museum & National Trust is delighted to announce the impending arrival of two additional aircraft for exhibition. Currently located at Marchwood, these aircraft are scheduled to arrive in the Falklands in early June 2024, with plans for their transportation to Stanley on or around June 14th, Liberation Day, weather permitting.

  • Thursday, May 2nd 2024 - 06:02 UTC

    Uruguay's UN human rights test: high standard record, strong media freedom and freedom of expression

    Ambassador Simon Manley, CMG, took up his post as the head of UN International Organizations based in Geneva in April 2021.

    The United Kingdom's Permanent Representative to the WTO and the UN in Geneva, Simon Manley, CMG, delivered on May first a statement at Uruguay's Universal Periodic Review at the Human Rights Council.

  • Thursday, May 2nd 2024 - 05:47 UTC

    “Stop the boats” policy, First volunteer asylum seeker off to Rwanda

    British authorities have detained the first migrants set to be removed to Rwanda under PM Rishi Sunak's flagship illegal migration policy to begin by July

    British media is reporting that the UK has sent its first asylum-seeker to Rwanda under a voluntary scheme, just a week after the UK government adopted a controversial law allowing irregular migrants to be deported to the East African nation.

  • Thursday, May 2nd 2024 - 04:53 UTC

    Scotland's political system in the process of nominating a new First Minister

    Yousaf said he will resign as FM once a new leader is chosen. At that point, parliament will have 28 days to nominate a new first minister to be appointed by the King.

    Potential successors to outgoing Scotland's First Minister Humza Yousaf who announced his resignation on Monday, after a let down from the Greens, and fearing two no confidence votes, have been meeting to consider bids for the leadership of SNP. They are John Swinney and Kate Forbes who have yet to confirm their aspirations.

  • Wednesday, May 1st 2024 - 23:50 UTC

    Mondino assured of China's support for Argentina's stance regarding Malvinas/Falkland issue

    Beyond China's old support regarding the Malvinas/Falklands controversy, Mondino's trip seems to have yielded almost no results

    Although Argentine Foreign Minister Diana Mondino had the near-impossible task of putting her country on good terms with China despite President Javier Milei's disparaging campaign comments, some common ground was reached this week as the South American diplomat reaffirmed the one-China principle and Beijing backed Argentina's claim to the Falkland/Malvinas Islands.

  • Wednesday, May 1st 2024 - 21:28 UTC

    Argentine unions ratify May 9 general strike against Milei's policies

    When the measure was announced, Argentina “was bad and now it is worse,” Daer (L) explained besides Moyano

    Argentina's main unions insisted Wednesday during the Labor Day demonstrations that the plans for the May 9 general strike against President Javier Milei's economic reforms that are affecting people's purchase power were “not in doubt.” Healthcare workers union leader Héctor Daer, who co-chairs the General Labor Confederation (CGT), also explained that “We are going to go ahead with the struggle plan that we have been developing. When the measure was announced, Argentina ”was bad and now it is worse.”