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Montevideo, November 22nd 2024 - 11:21 UTC

Politics

  • Saturday, October 5th 2024 - 10:59 UTC

    Survey finds Orsi ahead in voting intention to become Uruguay's next president

    In every scenario, Orsi seems to be on his way to becoming Lacalle Pou's successor next year

    According to a Usina de Percepción Ciudadana survey released this week in Montevideo, opposition candidate Yamandú Orsi of the Broad Front (Frente Amplio - FA) would defeat Álvaro Delgado of the ruling Multicolor coalition by 6 percentage points. In case of a runoff, Orsi is expected to garner 50% of the vote, the study found between September 27 and 30 from a sample of 500 people.

  • Saturday, October 5th 2024 - 10:57 UTC

    Paraguay adopting Summer time, probably for good

    Adopting GMT-3 all year round should help “simplify many things,” Peña argued

    Pursuant to Decree 1264 dated Feb. 24, 2014, Paraguay is to return to Time Zone GMT-3 on the first Sunday of October each year. But this time around the change might become permanent, as President Santiago Peña said Friday he had no problem signing into law the newly passed bill by Congress for the so-called daylight saving time to become effective. “We do not find any reason not to do so,” the head of state pointed out.

  • Saturday, October 5th 2024 - 10:54 UTC

    China-funded port in Peru poses threat to Chilean foreign trade operations

    Chancay is scheduled to open in November

    A China-sponsored mega-port north of Lima is expected to revolutionize trade between Asia and South America. It would also jeopardize the future of seashore facilities in northern Chile which might lose some of their traffic share once the Chancay Megaport is opened. Works are 93% completed and are due to be finished in November.

  • Saturday, October 5th 2024 - 10:50 UTC

    Brazil postpones rescue mission in Lebanon

    Of the nearly 21,000 Brazilians living in Lebanon, at least 3,000 approached the Embassy in Beirut to seek help fleeing the country

    Operation Cedar Roots has been postponed due to unsafe conditions reaching Beirut's International Airport by land for the some 220 Brazilians stranded in war-torn Lebanon, Agencia Brasil reported Friday. According to the latest update, the FAB aircraft is now scheduled to take off Saturday from Lisbon, Portugal, to the Lebanese capital.

  • Saturday, October 5th 2024 - 10:44 UTC

    Falklands Wide Television and Radio Services Outages

    The outages are due to disruption of the signal from the satellite to BFBS receivers by the sun’s rays and are completely unavoidable.

    Falklands residents both of Stanley and Camp are advised that there will be a disruption to TV and radio services due to sun outages affecting satellite reception in late mid-October.

  • Saturday, October 5th 2024 - 10:40 UTC

    De Moraes says X paid fine to a wrong account

    De Moraes will not decide on X's future until he gets a report from the Attorney General's Office

    Brazil's Supreme Federal Court (STF) Justice Alexandre De Moraes said Friday that tycoon Elon Musk's social platform X had paid its R$ 28.6 million (US$ 5.24 million) fines to a wrong account and ordered this situation to be solved before allowing the service back, Agencia Brasil reported. X has been banned from South America's largest country since Aug. 30.

  • Saturday, October 5th 2024 - 10:37 UTC

    Falklands Appoints Cambridge Management as Telecommunications Consultants

    Cambridge Management Consulting has offices or legal entities in Cambridge, London, New York, Paris, Dubai, Tel Aviv, Singapore and Helsinki

    The Falkland Islands Government (FIG) has announced that it has appointed Cambridge Management Consulting (Cambridge MC) as telecommunications consultants. The appointment comes following an international tender process that received multiple bids.

  • Saturday, October 5th 2024 - 10:25 UTC

    Following White House pressure, dockworkers strike “to cripple US economy” suspended

    A United States dockworkers strike involving 45,000 striking at East and Gulf coast ports reached a deal Thursday to suspend a three-day strike until Jan. 15 to provide time to negotiate a new contract.

  • Saturday, October 5th 2024 - 08:48 UTC

    UK charters flight to leave Lebanon on Sunday as conflict escalates

    The UK has chartered a flight to leave Beirut on Sunday (Oct 6) as tensions in the region escalate.

    More than 250 British nationals have left Lebanon on flights chartered by UK Government. Any remaining British nationals who want to leave are urged to register immediately, or to use commercial routes.

  • Saturday, October 5th 2024 - 06:33 UTC

    UK/Mauritius 3 October deal to protect national security, safeguarding operation of strategic military base

    Diego Garcia captured by satellite.

    The agreement demonstrates the UK government’s commitment to safeguarding global security and averting threats to peace and prosperity in the Indian Ocean and wider Indo-Pacific. It sees Mauritius assume sovereignty over BIOT, with the UK authorized to exercise the sovereign rights of Mauritius on Diego Garcia.