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Montevideo, July 7th 2025 - 09:35 UTC

Politics

  • Wednesday, November 1st 2023 - 14:35 UTC

    Falklands Remembrance Sunday 12 November

    There will be two minutes silence at approximately 11.00 am marked by the firing of the saluting guns on Victory Green.

    Gilbert House, seat of the Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly has made public the arrangements for Sunday 12 November 2023, Remembrance Sunday. The Annual Service of Remembrance, this year commemorating the 105th anniversary of the end of the First World War, will be held in Christ Church Cathedral commencing at 9.30 am.

  • Wednesday, November 1st 2023 - 14:19 UTC

    King Charles in Kenya addressed British colonial past and abuses

    Charles said that “the wrongdoings of the past are a cause of the greatest sorrow and the deepest regret,” but he stopped short of making a full apology for the abuses (Pic AP)

    King Charles is in Kenya in his first foreign visit as a monarch to a Commonwealth nation where he addressed the colonial past of British rule in East Africa, and abuses committed by colonial forces, especially in the 1950's during the Kenyan struggle for independence.

  • Wednesday, November 1st 2023 - 10:30 UTC

    Chile recalls Ambassador to Israel as violence in Gaza grows

    Boric said Israel's offensive was beyond war against Hamas, whose actions he also condemned

    President Gabriel Boric Font Tuesday recalled Chile's Ambassador to Israel Jorge Carvajal for consultations given the “unacceptable violations of international humanitarian law” in the Gaza Strip, it was reported in Santiago after a statement released by the Foreign Ministry.

  • Wednesday, November 1st 2023 - 10:21 UTC

    Bolivia severs diplomatic ties with Israel

    Bolivia had already broken up with Israel under Evo Morales

    Bolivian Deputy Foreign Minister Freddy Mamani Machaca announced Tuesday that the South American country “condemns the aggressive and disproportionate Israeli military offensive being carried out in the Gaza Strip” and was thenceforth breaking diplomatic relations with Israel in “repudiation” of such acts. The Bolivian government made no mention of Hamas' Oct. 7 attacks.

  • Wednesday, November 1st 2023 - 10:10 UTC

    Paraguay increasingly attractive to direct investments

    The new government of President Santiago Peña has proven to be friendly to direct investments

    According to the Central Bank of Paraguay (BCP), direct investment in the South American country reached a record US$ 725 million last year, it was reported Tuesday in Asunción.

  • Wednesday, November 1st 2023 - 09:13 UTC

    Fuel supply in Argentine getting back to normal pending price increase

    “All of a sudden the trucks appeared,” Massa said in an ironical tone

    Fuel supply in Argentina is slowly getting back to normal as an increase in the price at pumps has been admitted onto a negotiating table, it was reported in Buenos Aires. After shortages throughout the weekend, the Government acquiesced to an increase in the price of gasoline.

  • Wednesday, November 1st 2023 - 08:50 UTC

    Chile planning a fiber link directly with Antarctica

    Chilean Antarctica base and airport, President Eduardo Frei Montalva

    Chile is planning an undersea fiber cable linking the country with Antarctica and several bases in the southernmost continent. With this purpose, Chile signed an agreement with Latin America's Development Bank, CAF to begin feasibility studies

  • Tuesday, October 31st 2023 - 12:52 UTC

    Rutley in Chile to celebrate 200 years of bilateral relations and to sign an Antarctica cooperation protection Letter of Intent

    Minister Rutley, together with Chile’s Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Gloria de la Fuente

    The Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office’s Minister for the Americas and the Caribbean, David Rutley MP, arrives in Chile, from Peru, to strengthen collaboration between the UK and Chile, as both nations celebrate 200 years of bilateral relations. 

  • Tuesday, October 31st 2023 - 10:42 UTC

    Brazilian FM critical of UN Security Council

    “We have the means to do something and yet, time and time again, we fail,” Vieira insisted

    Brazilian Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira was highly critical of the United Nations Security Council's performance regarding the ongoing war between Israel and the terrorist group Hamas. “We failed,” said the top diplomat of the country currently chairing the body, Agencia Brasil reported.

  • Tuesday, October 31st 2023 - 10:32 UTC

    Venezuelan Supreme Court annuls Machado's win in primaries

    Machado has not spoken publicly since the court's ruling was announced

    The Electoral branch of Venezuela's Supreme Court (TSJ) has annulled the opposition's Oct. 22 primaries whereby María Corina Machado had been chosen to take on President Nicolás Maduro in the 2024 elections. The Court argued that Machado had been disenfranchised for 15 years in addition to fraud allegations affecting the process, it was reported in Caracas.