Politics

Wednesday, December 27th 2023 - 10:36 UTC
Milei eyes plebiscite if DNU fails through Congress

Argentine President Javier Milei said he would call for a popular consultation if his most-encompassing emergency decree (DNU) issued last week fails through Congress.
Wednesday, December 27th 2023 - 10:20 UTC
Brazil: Same-sex marriages on the rise

According to a study from the National Human Rights Observatory (ObservaDH), 59,620 same-sex marriages were registered in South America's largest country between 2013 and 2021, Agencia Brasil reported. The new figures represented a 148.7% increase in nine years, it was also explained. In the same period, 59,620 civil unions were also recorded, the survey showed.
Wednesday, December 27th 2023 - 07:53 UTC
UK will keep the EU kilos and liters measuring systems, but pints are to prevail when it comes to wines

Despite Brexit, the United Kingdom is not planning to change metric laws inherited from the European Union, meaning traders can use Britain's traditional imperial weighing system only alongside the metric one. This follows a public consultation with nearly 99% of respondents saying they were happy with kilos and liters.
Wednesday, December 27th 2023 - 07:38 UTC
Fears of 'deforestation rush' in tropical rain forest if Brazilian congress passes bill to pave Amazon highway

The lower house of Brazil's Congress passed a bill that allows the paving of highway BR319, which crosses the heart of the Amazon basin and which scientists and environmentalists claim threatens the future of the world's largest tropical rainforest. The bill still has to be approved by the Senate.
Tuesday, December 26th 2023 - 10:55 UTC
Impending job losses to deepen Argentina's crisis in the short run

The administration of President Javier Milei is planning not to renew the contracts of some 7,000 state workers, which would add to the hardships many Argentine families are going through amid deep reforms to recover from the country's current crisis, it was reported in Buenos Aires.
Tuesday, December 26th 2023 - 10:22 UTC
Milei says Argentine opposition leaders are corrupt sadists

Argentine President Javier Milei on Monday called the opposition “corrupt” and “sadistic” as he defended his emergency decree (DNU) deregulating most aspects of the South American country's economy to recover from the ongoing crisis through fiscal adjustments and cuts in public spending.
Tuesday, December 26th 2023 - 10:12 UTC
Brazil not giving up rescuing people from war-torn Gaza

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said Brazil was still willing to welcome anyone who wanted to return from the Gaza Strip, Agencia Brasil reported. The head of state made those remarks on Christmas Day over lunch with a group of people who had arrived from the war-torn area on Dec. 23.
Tuesday, December 26th 2023 - 08:47 UTC
US expands its EEZ by 385,000sq km off Alaska despite not been party of UNCLOS

With the stroke of a pen the US administration of president Joe Biden added nearly 250 million acres to its maritime claims, the largest administrative expansion since the establishment of the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone in 1983.
Tuesday, December 26th 2023 - 07:40 UTC
Charles III message: ”We must protect the Earth and our natural world as the one home which we all share”

King Charles III's Christmas broadcast, recorded in Buckingham Palace, brought together some of his most personal causes, building bridges between faiths, protecting the environment, and compassion for the most vulnerable.
Tuesday, December 26th 2023 - 07:32 UTC
Falklands Legislative Assembly members Christmas message

Members of the Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly shared a Christmas best wishes message in the last session of 2023. Be it not for defense, which remains a UK responsibility, the eight elected members of the Assembly are in fact the internal government of the Falklands.