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Montevideo, December 29th 2025 - 07:52 UTC

Politics

  • Thursday, November 21st 2024 - 13:43 UTC

    ICC issues arrest warrants against Israel's PM and others

    The measure was in acquiescense to Chief Prosecutor Karin Khan's request filed back in May

    The International Criminal Court (ICC) Thursday issued arrest warrants against
    Israel's Primer Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant as well as Hamas leader Mohammed Diab Ibrahim Al-Masri, also known as Mohammed Deif, for crimes against humanity and war crimes in the Gaza Strip, it was announced at The Hague. The measure was in acquiescense to Chief Prosecutor Karin Khan's request filed back in May. Khan had also sought warrants for two other senior Hamas figures, Yahya Sinwar and Ismail Haniyeh, who have since been killed by Israeli forces.

  • Thursday, November 21st 2024 - 10:55 UTC

    The relationship between Milei and Villarruel is reduced to institutional matters

    Given the current tension between Milei and Villarruel, her running again for the Vice Presidency in 2027 would seem out of the question

    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

    Senator Maria Eugenia Dure

    “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

    Defense Secretary John Healy addressing the Commons and announcing plans to save £500m over five years

    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

    The ANR has many political leaders under the microscope, such as former President Horacio Cartes, who has been declared as “most corrupt” by the US

    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

    API opposes California’s Advanced Clean Cars II rule, requiring 100% EV sales by 2035, which they argue restricts options and increase dependence on Chinese minerals

    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

    Gibraltar Chief Minister Fabian Picardo and former UK minister Sir Liam Fox, chairman of the Abraham Accords, make the announcement at the Rock

    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

    These announcements are linked to Economy Minister Luis Toto Caputo's participation last month in Washington at the WB annual meeting, it was reported

    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

    Meloni and Milei are like-minded leaders with joint plans for the near future

    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

    In the end, La Regina will not go to jail

    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.