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Montevideo, December 8th 2025 - 16:53 UTC

Politics

  • Monday, July 15th 2024 - 21:33 UTC

    Trump picks 39-year-old Ohio Senator as his running mate

    Vance has evolved from dubbing Trump “America's Hitler” to becoming his running mate for the Nov. 5 elections (Pic Alamy)

    Former US President Donald J. Trump Monday announced he was picking Ohio Senator James David Vance as his running mate for the Nov. 5 elections where he would be seeking his return ticket to the White House. Just a few days after an assassination attempt on his life, Trump conveyed his decisions to his followers through social media before accepting the Republican nomination at the Party Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

  • Monday, July 15th 2024 - 19:50 UTC

    French international rugby players held incommunicado in Mendoza pending hearing in rape case

    Under no circumstance will Auradou and Jegou be allowed to fly back to France

    French international rugby players Hugo Auradou, 20, and Oscar Jegou, 21, who have been arrested in the Argentine province of Mendoza to face rape charges, spent the weekend separated from each other incommunicado before being transferred to another detention facility. For the time being, visitors are not allowed except for their legal teams after being formally charged Friday with “the crime of sexual assault with penetration, aggravated by the participation of two people.” A 39-year-old woman accused them of raping her multiple times and beating her in a Mendoza hotel room after a rugby match on July 7. The defendants claim it was consensual sex. If found guilty, they face between eight and 20 years in prison.

  • Monday, July 15th 2024 - 10:39 UTC

    Alberto Fujimori to run for President of Peru in 2026, daughter announces

    Fujimori is within a fortnight of turning 86

    Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori will seek a third term in office in 2026, his daughter and former presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori announced Sunday. Regarding her father's disenfranchisement given his numerous criminal convictions, Keiko insisted she would leave those matters up to their legal team. The octogenarian leader also faces several health issues.

  • Monday, July 15th 2024 - 10:33 UTC

    Argentine President warns of hard times ahead

    Milei announced a new intervention in the currency exchange market to bring down the “blue” dollar by making pesos even scarcer

    Argentine President Javier Milei downplayed this weekend from Sun Valley, Idaho, the importance of the “blue” (a euphemism for “black market”) dollar going up in his country. However, he warned of “difficult” weeks to come as his Government starts a new zero-money-issuing phase, which he dubbed “a new upgrade of the monetary policy.”

  • Monday, July 15th 2024 - 07:36 UTC

    Italian President lands in Brazil for 5-day visit

    Mattarella will be meeting with Lula on Monday

    Italian President Sergio Mattarella landed in Brasilia Sunday for a five-day visit to South America's largest country, Agencia Brasil reported. The first visit of an Italian head of state to Brazil in 24 years marks the 150th anniversary of immigration from the European nation. Topping the agenda of talks will be the relationship between the European Union (EU) and the Southern Common Market (Mercosur), as well as other topics such as climate change and energy transition.

  • Sunday, July 14th 2024 - 04:48 UTC

    Trump survives assassination attempt in Pennsylvania

    Trump first ducked behind the lectern as security staff shielded him before eventually standing up again with a clenched fist as he headed out of the premises

    Former US President Donald J. Trump seemed to be alright but bleeding profusely Saturday after being shot at during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on the Republican leader's quest to get back to the White House. Two people ended up dead, including the suspected perpetrator.

  • Saturday, July 13th 2024 - 20:08 UTC

    The entire world's population is expected to reach 10.3 billion by 2080

    Fewer people would represent less aggregate consumption, a UN official explained

    After reaching 10.3 billion people by 2080, the world's population is projected to start dwindling, according to the ”World Population Prospects 2024″ document released this week. The study forecasted that the current population of 8.2 billion would keep soaring over the next 60 years and fall to 10.2 billion by the end of the century.

  • Saturday, July 13th 2024 - 10:16 UTC

    Leading humanitarian aid officials insist greater support needed for Haiti

    Haiti's crisis will not be solved by humanitarian aid alone, the officials underlined

    According to senior humanitarian aid officials, the assistance plan launched for Haiti last February is less than a quarter funded when around US$ 680 million is required to tackle the ongoing gang violence and bring necessary supplies to the local population.

  • Saturday, July 13th 2024 - 10:12 UTC

    Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust and a bit of history on Eundurance22

    Mensun Bound, Director of Exploration and Simon Frederick Lighthelm, Ice pilot of the expedition raise the Falklands flag on the SA Angulhas II.

    On 5th March 2022 the Endurance22 Expedition, organized and funded by the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust, located the wreck of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s iconic three-masted polar sailing ship, Endurance, which had not been seen since it was crushed by ice in the Weddell Sea in 1915. Among the team of Endurance 22 was Mensun Bound, a Falklands born maritime archeologist who was Director of Exploration.

  • Friday, July 12th 2024 - 12:34 UTC

    Argentina's Labor Ministry halts pilots strike

    Flights will operate normally as wage bargaining continues

    Argentina's Labor Ministry issued a so-called mandatory conciliation injunction, thus thwarting the strike announced for Friday by the APLA pilots guild.