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Montevideo, January 30th 2026 - 12:21 UTC

Politics

  • Wednesday, June 1st 2022 - 09:45 UTC

    Nicaragua's Parliament bans Language Academy and 82 other NGOs

    Deputy Filiberto Rodríguez's bill was appproved with no debate

    Nicaragua's legal assembly has approved with no debate Sandinista Deputy Filiberto Rodríguez's bill to outlaw the Language Academy and 82 other NGOs which, according to the Ministry of the Interior (Mingob), have failed to comply with financial regulations regarding donations from abroad.

  • Wednesday, June 1st 2022 - 09:35 UTC

    IAPA concerned over Judiciary deployment in Costa Rican newspaper case

    Cell phones and notebooks are work tools where confidential information is stored, recalled Jornet

    Inter-American Press Association (IAPA) President Jorge Canahuati urged Costa Rica's judiciary to handle the process with transparency and to observe the due process of law as legal action has been taken involving Diario Extra.

  • Wednesday, June 1st 2022 - 09:30 UTC

    Russia supports expanding BRICS, but demands consensus on access conditions

    “Russia support China's proposal to expand the alliance of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, Brics, but it is too early to nominate possible new members,” said Zakharova

    Russia supports the proposal to increase membership of BRICS, the organization of the leading developing economies, but before moving in that direction there is a need to establish a consensus on access criteria.

  • Wednesday, June 1st 2022 - 09:24 UTC

    Former ambassador to leave Argentina's diplomatic mission in Tel Aviv

    Urribarri was sentenced April 7 to eight years in prison and banned for life from holding any public office

    Former Argentina's Ambassador to Israel Sergio Urribarri, who resigned his position after being convicted to eight years in jail for acts of corruption during his tenure as Governor of the province of Entre Ríos, is to leave the diplomatic building where he has been sheltering, it was announced in Buenos Aires.

  • Tuesday, May 31st 2022 - 20:48 UTC

    Children from the Falklands say “Thank you” in a video to veterans who liberated the islands in 1982

    The film will be shared at forthcoming Falklands 40th anniversary events in the fortnight running up to Liberation Day on 14th June.

    As part of the commemoration events for the 40th anniversary of the Falklands war, school children from both the Junior and Secondary schools in the Falkland Islands have created special “Thank you” messages to all the veterans involved in liberating the Falkland Islands in 1982. The school children are keen that their messages are seen by as wide an audience as possible, so that as many veterans and their families and families of those 255 lost, get to see them and know that what they did 40 years ago is still greatly appreciated and not forgotten, even by the most recent generation of young Islanders.

  • Tuesday, May 31st 2022 - 10:55 UTC

    “Colombian Trump” now 3 weeks from being elected

    After failing to foresee he would make it to the runoff, pollsters are already heralding the “Colombian Trump” will beat Petro

    Non-leftwing voters have all their eggs now in Rodolfo Hernandez's basket, after the candidate many dub the “Colombian Trump” made it to the second round against all forecasts, to face off former M19 guerrilla leader and current Senator Gustavo Petro June 19.

  • Tuesday, May 31st 2022 - 10:45 UTC

    Falkland Islands Veterans Reunion in Gosport and Portsmouth

    The band of the Royal Marines, a contingent from HMS Sultan, naval cadets, and hundreds of Falklands' veterans all formed and marching in Gosport

    As the Falkland Islands Liberation Day approaches, on 14 June, commemoration events and services are being held across the United Kingdom and the Falklands, and over last weekend it was Gosport and Plymouth that marked the 40th anniversary of the 1982 War and honored those who did not return from the South Atlantic.

  • Tuesday, May 31st 2022 - 10:15 UTC

    Boric's negative image keeps growing among Chileans

    As Boric's image plummets, a picture of him and Minister Jackson naked hangs at the Congress building

    Chile's President Gabriel Boric Front is recording astonishing levels of disapproval less than three months after taking office, according to Cadem's latest weekly survey released Monday.

  • Tuesday, May 31st 2022 - 10:06 UTC

    Did Volkswagen use slave labor during Brazil's dictatorship?

    The German carmaker “will not comment on the matter until it has clarity on all the allegations”

    Brazil's Labor Attorney (MPT) has summoned carmaker Volkswagen for an administrative hearing following reports that the company benefitted from slave labor in the 1970s and 1980s in Santana do Araguaia, in the State of Pará, it was announced Monday.

  • Tuesday, May 31st 2022 - 10:00 UTC

    Brazilian rice exports booming; challenge for all three Mercosur partners

    With Q1 results, Abiarroz expects foreign sales of the cereal to reach at least 1.4 million t in 2022, surpassing the volume of around 1.2 million obtained in 2021.

    Brazilian rice exports (husk base) totaled 451.3 thousand tones during the first quarter, more than double the same period in 2021 when 207.7 thousand tons were shipped, reports the Brazilian Rice Industry Association (Abiarroz).