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Montevideo, November 24th 2024 - 00:28 UTC

Politics

  • Sunday, July 14th 2024 - 04:48 UTC

    Trump survives assassination attempt in Pennsylvania

    Trump first ducked behind the lectern as security staff shielded him before eventually standing up again with a clenched fist as he headed out of the premises

    Former US President Donald J. Trump seemed to be alright but bleeding profusely Saturday after being shot at during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on the Republican leader's quest to get back to the White House. Two people ended up dead, including the suspected perpetrator.

  • Saturday, July 13th 2024 - 20:08 UTC

    The entire world's population is expected to reach 10.3 billion by 2080

    Fewer people would represent less aggregate consumption, a UN official explained

    After reaching 10.3 billion people by 2080, the world's population is projected to start dwindling, according to the ”World Population Prospects 2024″ document released this week. The study forecasted that the current population of 8.2 billion would keep soaring over the next 60 years and fall to 10.2 billion by the end of the century.

  • Saturday, July 13th 2024 - 10:16 UTC

    Leading humanitarian aid officials insist greater support needed for Haiti

    Haiti's crisis will not be solved by humanitarian aid alone, the officials underlined

    According to senior humanitarian aid officials, the assistance plan launched for Haiti last February is less than a quarter funded when around US$ 680 million is required to tackle the ongoing gang violence and bring necessary supplies to the local population.

  • Saturday, July 13th 2024 - 10:12 UTC

    Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust and a bit of history on Eundurance22

    Mensun Bound, Director of Exploration and Simon Frederick Lighthelm, Ice pilot of the expedition raise the Falklands flag on the SA Angulhas II.

    On 5th March 2022 the Endurance22 Expedition, organized and funded by the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust, located the wreck of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s iconic three-masted polar sailing ship, Endurance, which had not been seen since it was crushed by ice in the Weddell Sea in 1915. Among the team of Endurance 22 was Mensun Bound, a Falklands born maritime archeologist who was Director of Exploration.

  • Friday, July 12th 2024 - 12:34 UTC

    Argentina's Labor Ministry halts pilots strike

    Flights will operate normally as wage bargaining continues

    Argentina's Labor Ministry issued a so-called mandatory conciliation injunction, thus thwarting the strike announced for Friday by the APLA pilots guild.

  • Friday, July 12th 2024 - 09:33 UTC

    Millei's mileage accruing spree brings him to Idaho

    It is yet to be known whether Argentina's roving president will be attending Sunday's Copa America final in Miami

    Argentine President Javier Milei is on yet another trip to the United States, the third to that country alone since taking office on Dec. 10, 2023. This time around, he is expected to be attending the Allen & Co. annual meeting in Sun Valley, Idaho, bringing together billionaires from the technology and business sectors. Business Insider has described the event beginning Wednesday as “a summer camp for billionaires.”

  • Friday, July 12th 2024 - 07:03 UTC

    Brazil speeds trade agreement with Palestine in the framework of Mercosur

    The latest Mercosur summit took place this week in Asunción, Paraguay when the rotating six month presidential chair went to Uruguay.

    This week Brazil deposited its instrument of ratification of the Free Trade Agreement between Mercosur and Palestine, which means the treaty is to come into force, between Brazil and the Palestine Administration, in thirty days. The instrument was deposited at last moment to Mercosur member Paraguay on July 3, when this country was still chair of the South American trade block. The information was released by the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Relations. The following day the rotating presidency of Mercosur was handed to Uruguay.

  • Thursday, July 11th 2024 - 21:40 UTC

    Uruguay faces persistent fiscal deficit: Levels match end of previous administration

    The Ministry of Economy, led by Azucena Arbeleche (right), has explained that the unexpected drop in inflation, which ended 2023 at 5.1%, impacted fiscal revenues, particularly VAT collection

    The fiscal deficit in Uruguay has reached levels comparable to those at the end of the previous leftist Frente Amplio's administration, posing a significant challenge to the current government a few months before the next elections. The latest data, adjusted for extraordinary factors such as the pandemic, indicates that the consolidated fiscal deficit stands at 4.4% of GDP, mirroring the 2019 figures.

  • Thursday, July 11th 2024 - 19:46 UTC

    Colombian VP's car shot at; she was elsewhere

    Márquez urged the EMC guerrillas to “allow Cauca to live in peace and move forward”

    The car Colombian Vice President Francia Márquez usually rides was shot at Wednesday although the apparent target of the onslaught was not aboard at the time of the attack, it was reported from her native southwestern city of Suárez.

  • Thursday, July 11th 2024 - 12:25 UTC

    Argentine airline pilots announce strike against deregulation

    The measure has been announced with the winter school recess coming nearer

    Argentine airline pilots announced a strike for Friday, the last working day before the winter school break and judiciary recess, to protest against the decision of President Javier Milei's Government to open up the industry to foreign players through deregulation.