Politics

• Saturday, October 1st 2022 - 09:40 UTC

  Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng play, “Britannia Unhinged”

  

  By Gwynne Dyer – “The Queen’s final act of service to the nation was to selflessly buy the economy one last fortnight,” said one tweet when all four wheels finally came off the British economy.

• Friday, September 30th 2022 - 23:48 UTC

  Lula and Bolsonaro trade accusations in last TV debate

  

  Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva (PT) and the incumbent Jair Bolsonaro (PL) Thursday engaged in bitter arguments during the last TV debate ahead of Sunday's elections.

• Friday, September 30th 2022 - 19:03 UTC

  One official dead as Paraguay's Electoral Court HQs go down in flames

  

  One person was killed in Asunción as the headquarters of Paraguay's Superior Tribunal of Electoral Justice (TSJE) went on fire Thursday two and a half months before the primaries. Thousands of electronic ballot boxes were also engulfed by the flames-

• Friday, September 30th 2022 - 18:55 UTC

  Chilean President a “lapdog” of the US for Nicaragua's Ortega

  

  Nicaraguan leader Daniel Ortega Wednesday dubbed Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font a “lapdog” of the US administration and insisted it had become fashionable to request the release of political prisoners in his country.

• Friday, September 30th 2022 - 15:59 UTC

  Venezuela ups military strength on Caribbean coast to fight drug trafficking

  

  Venezuela's military strength in the northernmost Paraguaná peninsula on the Caribbean seashore has been upped Thursday as President Nicolás Maduro urged authorities from the Dutch territories of Aruba, Bonaire, and Curacao to join efforts against drug trafficking in the area.

• Friday, September 30th 2022 - 10:45 UTC

  False alarms: Bomb threats received at Casa Rosada and Army HQs in Buenos Aires

  

  The explosives division of Argentina's Federal Police was summoned late Thursday to Casa Rosada after a bomb threat was received. A similar warning had been made regarding the Army headquarters (Edificio Libertador) some three blocks from the Government's House.

• Friday, September 30th 2022 - 10:37 UTC

  Ample commitment from Labour with Falkland Islands self determination

  

  The round of United Kingdom political parties conferences has commenced and this week at Liverpool was Labour week, with the Falkland Islands government presence larger than normal, to mark this year the 40th anniversary of the war and Liberation.

• Friday, September 30th 2022 - 10:02 UTC

  Price of gasoline to fall in October, diesel and cooking gas remain stable in Uruguay

  

  Uruguayan authorities ordered a reduction in the price of gasoline at pumps of UY$ 3 (US$ 0.073) per liter effective Oct. 1 while diesel and cooking gas will remain unchanged, it was announced in Montevideo.

• Friday, September 30th 2022 - 09:46 UTC

  Argentina: Milani not guilty in purchase of mansion above his paygrade

  

  Former Argentine Army Chief of Staff General César Milani has been acquitted in the case of “illicit enrichment” filed against him for being unable to justify how he had managed to afford a luxurious residence in a most exclusive area north of Buenos Aires on his military officer's pay.

• Thursday, September 29th 2022 - 10:39 UTC

  Tierra del Fuego students competition on Malvinas issues

  

  High School students from Ushuaia, capital of the Argentine southernmost province of Tierra del Fuego were invited to participate in a competition, “Asking about Malvinas”. The competition to mark the fortieth anniversary of the Falklands/Malvinas war was sponsored by the city's program “Young Ushuaia”, and the provincial Youth Coordination office from the Culture and Education ministry.