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Montevideo, November 22nd 2024 - 17:17 UTC

Politics

  • Friday, September 27th 2024 - 08:28 UTC

    Beginning October Falklands implements Rural Recycling Program

    Concordia Bay will deliver resources to Fox Bay East and the Outer Islands to support the collection of glass, tins, and cans for final processing in Stanley

    The Falkland Islands Government (FIG) is pleased to announce a new initiative aimed at expanding the recycling collection service to properties in Camp. In partnership with Workboat Services Ltd, the first phase of this program will begin next month. Resources will be delivered to Fox Bay East and the Outer Islands included on the Concordia Bay schedule to support the collection of glass, tins, and cans for final processing in Stanley.

  • Thursday, September 26th 2024 - 14:37 UTC

    Eleven people arrested in Argentine province of Córdoba for starting wildfires

    Quinteros stressed that 99% of the fires were man-caused

    At least 11 people have been arrested in the Argentine province of Córdoba for their alleged involvement in starting the current which elicited President Javier Milei's presence late Wednesday. Córdoba Security Minister Juan Pablo Quinteros has already admitted that “fires, in 99% of the cases, are started by human hands.”

  • Thursday, September 26th 2024 - 10:53 UTC

    Argentina's economy keeps falling, Indec report shows

    Despite overall negative results, Agriculture, Livestock, Hunting, and Forestry showed a 23.6% increase

    Argentina's National Institute of Statistics and Census (Indec) Wednesday released a report showing that the economic activity in the South American country fell by 1.3% year-on-year in July.

  • Thursday, September 26th 2024 - 10:32 UTC

    Quito fires lead Noboa to cancel UN engagements and return to Ecuador

    At least six people were killed in the Ecuadorean capital

    Ecuador's President Daniel Noboa Wednesday halted his agenda in New York and returned to his country after a suspect was arrested in connecting with arson maneuvers in Quito that have the country's capital under fire. The head of state also explained that terrorism charges would be filed against the perpetrator, who would thus face between 10 to 13 years in prison.

  • Wednesday, September 25th 2024 - 15:02 UTC

    Paraguay ambitious project to increase exports to UK

    Paraguay’s main exports to UK are soybean-meal cakes for animal feed, 76.8% of the total, followed by charcoal (8.2%), veneer (4%), rice (3.4%), and other products

    Mercosur partner Paraguay, with a most disfavorable trade balance with UK is planning an ambitious project to enable the country in a few years reach an export bill of some US$ 900 million annually.

  • Wednesday, September 25th 2024 - 14:46 UTC

    Falklands: Consultation on National Minimum Wage accommodation regulation

    Falklands Secretariat, HQ of the Islands government administration offices

    Following approval at Executive Council on Tuesday 27 August, the Falkland Islands Government is holding a public consultation from this week to Tuesday 22 October 2024, on the Minimum Wage Accommodation offset rate.

  • Wednesday, September 25th 2024 - 11:56 UTC

    Argentina to no longer remain neutral, Milei tells UN

    The UN lost “credibility with the citizens of the free world,” Milei said in New York

    Argentine President Javier Milei Tuesday told the United Nations General Assembly in New York that his country would be dropping its traditional neutrality and taking sides in ongoing conflicts. He also said the global organization was seeking to “impose an ideological agenda” instead of “pursuing peace” in the world by allowing “bloody dictatorships” in.

  • Wednesday, September 25th 2024 - 11:24 UTC

    Foreign Office statement, UK/Argentina made progress on different South Atlantic issues regarding

    Foreign Secretary David Lammy, and Argentine FM Diana Mondino, met in New York on 24 September and made progress towards a broad agenda covering different issues relating to the South Atlantic.

    Looking forward to a new era of constructive cooperation within the bilateral relationship, characterized by improved dialogue and confidence-building measures, the UK Foreign Secretary, David Lammy, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Worship of Argentina, Diana Mondino, met in New York on 24 September and made progress towards a broad agenda covering different issues relating to the South Atlantic. It is agreed that the formula on the safeguards of sovereignty in paragraph 2 of the Joint Statement of 19 October 1989 applies to this agenda and its outcomes.

  • Wednesday, September 25th 2024 - 11:09 UTC

    Colombian President critical of Argentine colleague before UN

    Petro did not mention Milei by name but criticized people who go around chanting “Long fucking live freedom”

    Colombian President Gustavo Petro criticized the advance of global right leaders who chant “Long fucking live freedom“ but mean ”only the freedom of the richest 1% of the world's population.” Although he did not mention him by name, Petro was undoubtedly referring to his Argentine colleague Javier Milei's war cry. “Their mercantile and free sentiment leads to the destruction of the atmosphere and of life,” Colombia's first-ever leftwing head of state elaborated in defense of the environment.

  • Wednesday, September 25th 2024 - 11:03 UTC

    Boric insists human rights are to be defended against anyone violating them

    Boric described Maduro's government in Venezuela as a dictatorship trying to steal the elections

    Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font said Tuesday during his participation at the United Nations General Assembly that leftwing countries needed to have a single stance on human rights violations, regardless of whether they were committed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or Venezuelan ruler Nicolás Maduro. He also criticized countries with “double standards” on the issue.