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Montevideo, July 13th 2025 - 18:00 UTC

Politics

  • Wednesday, August 9th 2023 - 03:20 UTC

    Falklands Youth Parliament and 'future lawmakers' address the Legislative Assembly

    A historic day as the Falkland Islands Youth Parliament addresses the Legislative Assembly for the first time. In the picture next to Speaker Keith Biles

    Members of the Falkland Islands Youth Parliament spoke in Legislative Assembly at the end of July, putting forward a motion concerning the mental health of young people in the Falklands, an issue which the Youth Parliament agreed as a group to pursue over the course of a year at the beginning of their tenures.

  • Tuesday, August 8th 2023 - 14:30 UTC

    Falklands Tussac House construction on track; residents should move in June 2024

    Some details of the future management of Tussac House are still pending

    Construction progress for Tussac House is on track and they hope to see residents moving in June 2024 said Director of Health and Social Services Tom Bale at a meeting of the Health and Medical Services Committee.

  • Tuesday, August 8th 2023 - 14:14 UTC

    Home Office confirms Ascension Island plan for asylum seekers has been revived, “times change”

    Sarah Dines said “times change” and the small boats crisis had become “urgent” when asked why the Ascension Island plan was reportedly being reconsidered.

    London media is reporting a Home Office minister confirmed the UK Government is looking at “additional measures” following reports that plans to send asylum seekers to Ascension Island could be revived.

  • Tuesday, August 8th 2023 - 10:28 UTC

    Bolsonaro appeals TSE disenfranchisement

    Bolsonaro was denied his right to a full defense, his lawyers argue

    Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's legal team Monday filed an appeal against the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) decision by 5 votes to 2 to disenfranchise him for eight years for abuse of power and fraudulent use of public resources, it was reported in Brasilia. With this disqualification, Bolsonaro is ineligible to run for any office until 2030.

  • Tuesday, August 8th 2023 - 10:10 UTC

    Peru: Boluarte feared fleeing during Amazon Summit

    It is Boluarte's first trip abroad as President

    Peruvian Congresswoman Margot Palacios said she feared President Dina Boluarte might try to flee the country during her participation in the Amazon summit in the Brazilian city of Belém, it was reported in Lima on Monday. Boluarte left the country for the first time as President to attend the event.

  • Monday, August 7th 2023 - 09:11 UTC

    Zelensky willing to tell Lula about the situation in Ukraine

    Ukraine is ready to meet with Latin American leaders, Zelensky said

    Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview with Latin American media published Sunday that his Brazilian colleague Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's stance regarding the ongoing war with Russia was consistent with Moscow's narrative. “I thought he had a broader understanding of the world,” said Zelensky while insisting on inviting Lula to discuss the situation with him face to face.

  • Monday, August 7th 2023 - 08:32 UTC

    London considering Ascension island as plan B, if the scheme to send irregular migrants to Rwanda fails

    Ascension Island was a vital point for the UK Task Force during the Falklands war, 41 years ago, and now is the stopping point for the South Atlantic air bridge

    The UK Government is reportedly considering reviving plans to fly people who arrive in the UK by unauthorized means to Ascension Island. Multiple reports say ministers and officials are considering the island as a “plan B” if the scheme to send migrants to Rwanda fails. plan B” if the scheme to send migrants to Rwanda fails.

  • Saturday, August 5th 2023 - 11:01 UTC

    Falklands inviting prospective candidates to stand at the 21 September by election

    A busy election day in the Falklands both in Stanley and touring the Camp

    The Falkland Islands government is encouraging residents to become prospective candidates for the By-election of 21 September 2023 to fill a vacant seat for the Camp constituency in the Legislative Assembly, and has released the following,

  • Saturday, August 5th 2023 - 10:50 UTC

    Nine Ecuadorian prison officials arrested after police raids

    President Guillermo Lasso explained that these operations had been undertaken “for the safety of the citizens and of the people deprived of their freedom”

    Ecuadorian authorities confirmed Friday that nine officials from the country's prisons bureau in the city of Guayaquil had been arrested after weapons, explosives, and drugs were found in their offices “following the inspection of wards in the Penitenciaría del Litoral,” the Prosecutor's Office said on its Twitter account after some 2,000 troops carried out three raids resulting in “the seizure of firearms, bladed weapons, ammunition, explosives, drugs, among other prohibited objects.”

  • Saturday, August 5th 2023 - 10:43 UTC

    Brazilian gov't to up security in Amazon region

    Brazil's government plans to set up an integrated center for federal and state government security forces in Manaus this year, Dino explained

    Brazil's Security and Justice Minister Flávio Dino said Friday that the federal government of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva intends to up the strength of the security forces in the crime-torn Amazon region, Agencia Brasil reported.