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Montevideo, July 20th 2025 - 17:53 UTC

Politics

  • Tuesday, April 11th 2023 - 10:50 UTC

    Argentine President highlights the State's role in housing for all

    “Middle-income countries account for 60% of the world's poverty,” President Fernández explained

    Argentine President Alberto Fernández Monday insisted that “giving a roof to every inhabitant is an act of justice.” Fernández made those remarks at the closing ceremony of a Forum of Ministers and Highest Authorities of Housing and Urban Planning of Latin America and the Caribbean at Buenos Aires' Kirchner Cultural Center (CCK).

  • Tuesday, April 11th 2023 - 10:44 UTC

    Venezuelan Air Force neutralizes unidentified aircraft

    By neutralized Hernández Lárez meant the aircraft was shot down.

    Venezuelan Air Force (FANB) authorities Monday confirmed having neutralized what became known as the 13th hostile aircraft so far this year. The unidentified airplane was detected in the state of Apure in the southwestern region.

  • Tuesday, April 11th 2023 - 10:40 UTC

    Bomb attack on police force in Londonderry, a day before President Biden arrives in Northern Ireland

    A media photograph showed four young people in the mainly Irish nationalist area throwing petrol bombs at an armored police vehicle, which was covered in flames on one sidezz

    A police vehicle in Londonderry, Northern Ireland was attacked with Molotov bombs and set on fire on Monday, that is a day before US president Joe Biden arrives in Belfast for a visit of the country and the Republic.

  • Tuesday, April 11th 2023 - 10:29 UTC

    Palestinian Embassy in Montevideo critical of Uruguayan FM

    Palestine has also condemned Uruguay's pro-Israel votes in the United Nations

    While Uruguay's Foreign Ministry issued a communiqué condemning the recent terrorist attacks in the Middle East, the Palestinian Embassy in Montevideo accused the administration of President Luis Lacalle Pou of being one-sided.

  • Tuesday, April 11th 2023 - 10:17 UTC

    Argentine veterans want Foradori sacked from Foreign Ministry

    Foradori was allegedly drunk when he signed th3e agreement with Alan Duncan

    A group of Argentine war veterans Monday filed a petition before Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero to dismiss former Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Mario Foradori from the country's diplomatic corps for “having acted recklessly” in the conclusion, in 2016, of the joint declaration known as the Foradori-Duncan agreement to the “detriment of the interests of the Argentine Republic relating to the Malvinas question.”

  • Tuesday, April 11th 2023 - 10:00 UTC

    Brazilian President announces alliance with Indonesia and Congo

    With his previous experience as president, Lula said that “we will do more in four years -proportionally more- than we did in eight years.”

    In an exclusive TV interview marking his first 100 days in office, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announced on Monday (10) that he will meet in June with his colleagues from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Indonesia to launch an alliance between the countries that hold the largest rainforests on the planet, Agencia Brasil reported.

  • Monday, April 10th 2023 - 12:45 UTC

    Biden visit to Ulster and Ireland to remember the Good Friday peace agreement

    Rishi Sunak will welcome the US president Joe Biden to Northern Ireland on Tuesday evening.

    UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has praised the “bravery, perseverance and political imagination” shown by the leaders who shaped Northern Ireland's peace deal, the 1998 Good Friday Agreement which ended Northern Ireland's decades-long violent conflict known as the Troubles, reports BBC.

  • Monday, April 10th 2023 - 10:59 UTC

    Mercosur, Canada to resume trade deal talks

    A Canadian team is due in Brasilia next month to resume the negotiations that were left aside due to the Covid-19 pandemic

    Negotiations for an agreement between Mercosur and Canada to eliminate tariffs on industrial and agricultural goods, services, intellectual property, and government purchases are to resume after more than three years, CNN Brazil reported. The initiative had been halted by the Covid-19 pandemic.

  • Monday, April 10th 2023 - 10:20 UTC

    Russia says China has the right to respond to “provocations” with military exercises

    “In a very short period of time, we have witnessed many actions that were provocative towards the People's Republic of China,” said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.

    Russia today considered that China has the right to respond with military maneuvers to the “provocations” taking place around Taiwan, exercises that Beijing successfully completed on Monday.

  • Monday, April 10th 2023 - 10:16 UTC

    Petro OK with meeting former paramilitary leaders

    Petro still wants millions of Colombians to organize themselves to achieve total peace

    Colombian President Gustavo Petro Sunday said he was willing to meet with former paramilitary leaders to discuss the peace process. The head of state, a former guerrilla fighter himself, insisted that those who have served their sentences and who have publicly expressed their willingness to meet should explain “to what extent” the “peace process ... can be finished and finalized.”