Politics

Thursday, November 21st 2024 - 10:55 UTC
The relationship between Milei and Villarruel is reduced to institutional matters

Argentine President Javier Milei admitted implicitly in a TV interview Wednesday that no love is lost between him and Vice President Victoria Villarruel. The Libertarian leader acknowledged that the Senate's Speaker decided no longer to participate in cabinet meetings and claimed that she belonged to the so-called “red circle” of power, which we call “the caste.”
Thursday, November 21st 2024 - 10:54 UTC
“Stop making politics with Malvinas”, yelled a crowd against Tierra del Fuego officials

“Stop making politics with Malvinas,” openly complained municipal staff from the city of Ushuaia, capital of Tierra del Fuego, who were obliged to attend a conference on the “Malvinas” issue, and allegedly had to stand for political comments from national Senator Maria Eugenia Dure.
Thursday, November 21st 2024 - 10:27 UTC
UK to ax amphibious assault ships, a frigate 31 helicopters and obsolete drones

Two former Royal Navy flagships, a frigate and a pair of RFA support tankers will be decommissioned under a series of cost-saving measures announced on Wednesday to the House of Commons by Defense Secretary John Healey.
Thursday, November 21st 2024 - 10:03 UTC
Paraguay's ruling party to tackle corruption within its ranks

Paraguay's ruling National Republican Association (ANR) -also known as the Colorado Party- Wednesday approved a series of amendments to its internal code of ethics to target potential candidates linked to money laundering. Other initiatives included the possibility of online membership.
Thursday, November 21st 2024 - 10:01 UTC
US Petroleum lobby presents Trump a policy roadmap to ensure US leadership in global energy

A five point policy roadmap with the purpose of ensuring United States leadership in energy, protecting consumers and reducing inflation, elaborated by the American Petroleum Institute, API, has been addressed to incoming president Donald Trump and the next Congress.
Thursday, November 21st 2024 - 09:55 UTC
The Gibraltar Chapter of Abraham Accords launched by Picardo and Sir Liam Fox

The Gibraltar Chapter of the Abraham Accords Group was launched last week at the Rock, when Chief Minister, Fabian Picardo KC MP, welcomed Sir Liam Fox, Chairman of the Abraham Accords. Sir Liam was previously UK Secretary of State for International Trade from 2016 to 2019 and Secretary of State for Defense from 2010 to 2011. to No 6 Convent Place.
Thursday, November 21st 2024 - 09:44 UTC
Argentina gets IDB and WB loans

Argentina's Libertarian Government has been granted loans from the World Bank (WB) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) worth around US$ 4 billion, the Economy Ministry in Buenos Aires announced Wednesday. “The IDB and the World Bank approve financing for more than 4 billion dollars for projects in our country,” the ministry said in a statement.
Thursday, November 21st 2024 - 09:15 UTC
Argentina is Italy's point of reference in Latin America

Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni said during his trip to Buenos Aires where she had dinner Tuesday with President Javier Milei and met again one-on-one at Casa Rosada on Wednesday that “Argentina is our point of reference in Latin America.”
Thursday, November 21st 2024 - 09:03 UTC
Chubut court releases Punta Tombo Massacre perpetrator on parole

Chubut agribusinessman Ricardo La Regina was handed down a three-year sentence by a three-judge court in the city of Rawson for the 2021 killing of a colony of Magellanic penguins in the Punta Tombo reservation.
Wednesday, November 20th 2024 - 18:52 UTC
Blinken recognizes González Urrutia as Venezuelan President-elect

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday that his country was recognizing opposition candidate Edmundo González Urrutia as the winner of the July 28 elections in Venezuela despite announcements -albeit with little credibility- by authorities in Caracas that the incumbent Nicolás Maduro had prevailed. González Urrutia, who ran on behalf of the Unitarian Democratic Platform (PUD) given María Corina Machado's disenfranchisement, sought asylum in September in Spain after the Chavista regime issued an arrest warrant against him.