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Montevideo, November 15th 2025 - 18:28 UTC

Politics

  • Tuesday, June 9th 2009 - 12:56 UTC

    Leader of Peruvian Indian protests takes refuge in Nicaraguan embassy

    Pizango is accused of sedition but government admits having committed “errors”

    The wanted leader of protesting the Peruvian Amazon region Indians has been granted diplomatic asylum at the Nicaraguan embassy and is waiting for a safe conduct announced Monday Prime Minister Yehude Simon in a presentation to members of Congress.

  • Tuesday, June 9th 2009 - 10:01 UTC

    Air France pilots’ union demand replacement of speed sensors

    Brazilian navy recovered the vertical stabilizer from the tail section which is considered a key find to determine cause of the accident.

    An Air France labour union of pilots called on its members to refuse to fly Airbus A330s and A340s until the airline replaces speed sensors after investigators said the equipment probably played a role in June first Flighty 447 plane crash.

  • Tuesday, June 9th 2009 - 09:47 UTC

    World military expenditure in 2008 totalled 1.46 trillion, up 45% since 1999

    China has become the country which most invests in military expenditure behind the US.

    United States spent 607 billion US dollars on its military in 2008, accounting for 42% of the total world military expenditure for the year with China, France and the United Kingdom far behind, according to the 2009 Yearbook on Armaments, Disarmament and International Security, issued by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, SIPRI, on Monday.

  • Tuesday, June 9th 2009 - 09:29 UTC

    Insulza trusts dialogue will lift embargo and bring Cuba back to OAS

    OAS secretary general says dialogue is now bilateral

    The head of the Organization of American States, OAS said he was hopeful that with the revoke of sanctions to Cuba, the US embargo would eventually be lifted and Havana would rejoin the 34-member organization, but much dialogue would be required.

  • Tuesday, June 9th 2009 - 09:25 UTC

    It’s official: Cuba thanks sanctions’ revoke but says No to OAS

    Cuba praises Latinamerica’s courage for the defeat of US imperialism

    Cuba has formally rejected re-joining the Organization of American States, days after the group revoked Cuba's expulsion from the OAS nearly 50 years ago. Cuba's official media published a government statement Monday saying Cuba's values are incompatible with what it described as the group's neo-liberal values of capitalism and self-promotion.

  • Tuesday, June 9th 2009 - 05:18 UTC

    Falklands call for Argentine Co-operation

    Ms Cameron: politically, a significant year for the Falkland Islands

    The Falklands Islands Government has again called on Argentina to join with them in maintaining good co-operative relations and welcomed the agreement for the forthcoming Argentine relatives’ pilgrimage to inaugurate the Falklands cemetery Darwin where their 1982 war dead are buried. The Islanders also respect the need for Argentine veterans of the war to visit the battlefields where they fought.

  • Monday, June 8th 2009 - 13:43 UTC

    Lawmakers’ abuses not limited to UK shows Chilean television program

    Eight months discreetly filming Chilean congress members sins

    Last week Chileans watched in disbelief a news report that showed their national deputies hard at work in Congress: fiddling around on their cell phones, spending time on Web sites like Facebook, or keeping up with the horse races.

  • Monday, June 8th 2009 - 13:33 UTC

    Air France accelerating replacement of Airbus speed monitors

    At least 17 bodies have been retrieved by naval vessels north of Fernando do Noronha.

    Air France has said it is accelerating replacement of speed monitors on Airbus planes following the disappearance of a jet over the Atlantic six days ago.

  • Monday, June 8th 2009 - 13:28 UTC

    Peruvian Amazon indigenous call for dialogue; Army patrols area

    Over 60 killed and dozens missing, the toll of two-days of fighting

    Peruvian Amazon indigenous groups that fought government security forces with spears, rocks and home made guns during two days with a toll of over sixty killed and dozens missing said they are prepared to dialogue about the controversial laws which opened the region to logging, oil and minerals exploration and triggered the rebellion.

  • Monday, June 8th 2009 - 13:25 UTC

    EU Parliament election: Centre right advances at expense of the left

    Election night. The centre right EPP consolidates as the leading grouping in the European Parliament

    Centre-right parties have done well in elections to the European Parliament at the expense of the left. Far-right and anti-immigrant parties also made gains, as turnout figures plunged to between 43 and 44%, according to the latest reports from BBC.