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Montevideo, November 11th 2025 - 19:39 UTC

Politics

  • Wednesday, August 17th 2022 - 09:01 UTC

    US: Biden signs Inflation Reduction Act into law

    “This bill is the biggest step forward on climate ever, ever,” Biden said

    US President Joseph Biden Tuesday signed into law his Inflation Reduction Act concerning growing prices inflation, climate change, and other targets, which. He said it was one of the ”most significant laws in our history.

  • Wednesday, August 17th 2022 - 08:45 UTC

    UK will resume visits for Chagossians descendants to their homeland

    In February 2022, five Chagossians visited the disputed archipelago with the assistance of Mauritius, fifty years after the United Kingdom forcibly exiled them

    The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office has made public a page with brings together information on UK government support to people who were born on the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) and their descendants.

  • Tuesday, August 16th 2022 - 21:01 UTC

    Chile's proposed Constitution unlikely to prevail

    Rejection seems to be a good thing for Chile's economy

    Three weeks ahead of Chile's Constitutional Plebiscite, the nays (Rejection)are still ahead, according to a survey by the consulting firm Cadem, which showed 46% of the voters would rather keep the Constitution drafted under Dictator Augusto Pinochet in 1980 instead of adopting the one penned by the Constitutional Assembly convened last year.

  • Tuesday, August 16th 2022 - 20:49 UTC

    FLOTUS tests positive for COVID-19

    Mrs. Biden is being treated with Pfizer's Paxlovid

    US First Lady Jill Biden has tested positive for COVID-19, after showing cold-like symptoms Monday night which prompted PCR measurings, it was announced Tuesday by White House sources.

  • Tuesday, August 16th 2022 - 09:55 UTC

    Uruguayan FM stresses “One China” principle

    “Since 1988 there are no two opinions,” Bustillo insisted

    Uruguay's Foreign Minister Francisco Bustillo said in an interview published over the weekend that his country adhered to the one-China principle whereby Taiwan would be a rogue province yet to rejoin the mainland politically.

  • Tuesday, August 16th 2022 - 09:14 UTC

    Argentine Gov’t tipped of Iranian terrorist arriving in the country

    There were no reports on the accuracy of Milman’s allegations

    Argentine Deputy Gerardo Milman of the opposition Together for Change (Juntos por el Cambio – JxC) alliance Sunday requested immigration and airport Police authorities to investigate allegations that an Iranian terrorist of the Quds Force arrived in Argentina on a Turkish Airlines flight.

  • Tuesday, August 16th 2022 - 08:27 UTC

    Lula wants BRICS to broker ceasefire in Ukraine

    Lula also insisted Bolsonaro was isolating Brazil from the world

    Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who leads all polls to return to the Planalto Palace after the October elections, met with Russia's Ambassador to Brasilia Alexei Labetski and suggested the BRICS group the two countries share with India, China and South Africa should broker a cease-fire in Ukraine.

  • Tuesday, August 16th 2022 - 07:54 UTC

    China stages major military deployment around Taiwan

    “Using Taiwan to contain China” is doomed to failure, Chinese officials warned

    China resumed military maneuvers around the island of Taiwan following the presence in Taipei of yet another delegation of US lawmakers. After the visit by a group led lead by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi earlier this month, the new team was headed by Senator Ed Markey from Massachusetts.

  • Tuesday, August 16th 2022 - 07:27 UTC

    Uruguay's Lacalle gets highest approval ratings in LatAm

    Under Lacalle, Uruguay's economy was also found to be the best in the region.

    Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou tops the list of most-approved Latin American heads of state, according to an Ipsos survey released Monday.

  • Monday, August 15th 2022 - 21:34 UTC

    Paraguayan President picks Velázquez's replacement as candidate, but the story is not finished

    Registration for new candidacies within the Colorado Party has already closed, so it is not clear whether Wiens will be allowed to run

    Paraguay's ruling Fuerza Republicana faction from within the Colorado Party has chosen Public Works Minister and former evangelical Pastor Arnoldo Wiens as the future presidential candidate following Vice President Hugo Velázquez's announcement that he would resign his current job and back down from the 2023 electoral race.