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Montevideo, November 28th 2024 - 18:42 UTC

Politics

  • Friday, June 23rd 2023 - 05:49 UTC

    Falklands Memorial Map for the 258 families of fallen British combatants and Pangbourne Church

    All 258 families have received copies of the map but a copy has also been produced for the Falkland Islands Memorial Chapel at Pangbourne College in Reading.

    “There's some corner of a foreign field that is forever England.” Never were the words of Rupert Brooke more apt – though we must add Scotland, Wales, and Ireland to his original verse – than in the Falklands, where Islanders have named beaches, bays, harbors, islets, and inlets after the 258 souls killed in the 1982 conflict.

  • Thursday, June 22nd 2023 - 23:07 UTC

    China backs Argentina's Falklands claim and warns about “colonial thinking”

    Geng said this way of thinking has a “serious impact” on international relations and order and “seriously damages” the sovereignty, security and development interests of the countries involved.

    Chinese ambassador to the United Nations Geng Shuang has backed Argentina's claim to the Falkland Islands and called on countries to abandon “colonial thinking”, warning of its serious implications for the international order.

  • Thursday, June 22nd 2023 - 13:56 UTC

    Falklands government negotiating the acquisition of Stanley Growers

    Current managers of Stanley Growers, Tim and Jan Miller said: “We need to begin stepping back, whilst ensuring staff and customers see no change to their day to day interactions with the business.”

    The Falkland Islands Government (FIG) is currently in final negotiations with the Directors of Stanley Growers Limited and Stanley Nurseries and Garden Centre to acquire both businesses and the leases of the land on which they sit.

  • Thursday, June 22nd 2023 - 11:04 UTC

    Shooter at latest Brazil high school massacre found dead in his cell

    A second suspect remains under arrest, authorities confirmed

    The 21-year-old shooter who killed two teenagers at a high school in the Brazilian State of Parana earlier this week “was found dead in his cell Tuesday night,” authorities said. “The circumstances” of his death are under investigation, Parana's Public Security Secretariat also explained.

  • Thursday, June 22nd 2023 - 11:02 UTC

    Brazilian Gov't picks Bolsonaro's last FM for Ottawa embassy

    França was Bolsonaro's Foreign Minister from April 2021 to December 2022

    With the endorsement of Acting President Geraldo Alckmin, Brazil's Government Wednesday sent the name of former Foreign Minister Carlos França to the Senate to be appointed ambassador to Canada, it was published in the Diário Oficial da União (DOU - Official Gazette).

  • Thursday, June 22nd 2023 - 10:52 UTC

    Brazilian Senate approves Zanin for STF post

    Zanin, 47, will be able to serve on the Court until the mandatory retirement age of 75

    With 58 votes in favor and 18 against, Brazil's Senate Wednesday approved the appointment of former President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva's lawyer Cristiano Zanin to the Supreme Federal Court (STF) to fill the vacancy left by Ricardo Lewandowski, Agencia Brasil reported.

  • Thursday, June 22nd 2023 - 10:44 UTC

    Chilean President forms Commission to solve Mapuche crisis

    The Commission will have to deal with the return of ancestral lands to the indigenous people

    Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font set up a Commission for Peace and Understanding to lay the “foundations for a lasting and sustainable solution to the long-standing intercultural conflict between the Chilean State and the Mapuche people,” it was announced Wednesday in Santiago during the National Day of Indigenous Peoples holiday.

  • Thursday, June 22nd 2023 - 10:00 UTC

    Lula has busy agenda in Rome

    Lula arrived in Rome on Tuesday

    Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Argentine-born Pope Francis exchanged views for over an hour Wednesday on “the socio-political situation of the region” and discussed ”the promotion of peace (...) the fight against poverty and inequality, the respect for indigenous populations and the protection of the environment”, according to a communiqué.

  • Wednesday, June 21st 2023 - 11:45 UTC

    Falklands: ”We do not ask you to support the UK nor Argentina” but “supporting our right”

    Falklads delegation, MLA Gavin Short (L) and MLA John Birmingham (R) with Nikki Wilkis and Mavis Chipunza, both Junior Ambassadors’ for the Falkland Islands

    This Tuesday, 20 June two elected members from the Falkland Islands Assembly addressed the United Nations Special Committee on the situation with regard to the implementation of the declaration on the granting of independence to colonial countries and peoples, the so-called UN Committee of 24. The first to address the C24 was MLA Gavin Short, who criticized the aggressive attitude of Argentina towards the Falklands and mentioned several actions, which sought to undermine the Islands' economy.

  • Wednesday, June 21st 2023 - 11:27 UTC

    Argentina again calls on UK for peaceful solution to Falklands/Malvinas dispute

    Santiago Cafiero with part of the Argentine delegation addressing C24

    As announced the Argentine foreign minister Santiago Cafiero on Tuesday morning, in New York, before the United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization again called on the United Kingdom for bilateral negotiations with Argentina for a pacific and definitive solution to the sovereignty dispute over the Malvinas Islands.