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Montevideo, December 26th 2025 - 09:38 UTC

Tag: United Kingdom

  • Saturday, August 29th 2015 - 05:41 UTC

    MP Rosindell: Time for Spain to back off, time for Britain to back up Gibraltar

    “The reality Madrid must accept is that Gibraltar is firmly British. It has been for hundreds of years, and the people have no desire to become part of Spain”.

    Britain cannot allow Spain to continue to ignore international law and bully Gibraltar, said MP Andrew Rosindell following the latest incursion in Gibraltar waters, this time a Spanish Customs crew that actually fired shots to a British-Gibraltarian fishing cruise.

  • Thursday, August 27th 2015 - 04:53 UTC

    Spain confident its Gibraltar tough policy is 'bearing fruit' and will continue

    “We have taken measures that are bearing fruit and we are going to continue doing so” said García-Margallo.

    The Spanish Government’s measures toward Gibraltar are ‘bearing fruit, Spain’s Foreign Minister Jose Manuel García-Margallo said in a weekend interview in which he vowed to maintain pressure on the Rock. Although the minister’s tough language on Gibraltar was nothing new, it was the second time within the space of a week that he had spoken out on the Rock.

  • Wednesday, August 26th 2015 - 16:38 UTC

    Chevening scholarships for 31 professionals from Uruguay

    Ambassador Ben Lyster-Binns during the announcement ceremony at the British embassy

    A record of 31 professionals from Uruguay have been awarded with Chevening scholarships to study courses in different disciplines in the United Kingdom. Chevening are UK government’s global scholarship program, funded by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and partner organizations, such as Uruguay's research and innovation office, ANII.

  • Tuesday, August 25th 2015 - 20:31 UTC

    Falklands' air defenses bolstered with Saab-built Giraffe AMB radars

    The MoD confirmed in the first quarter of the year it was upgrading Falkland's air defenses including mandating the use of the Giraffe in the update.

    Britain has ordered additional Saab-built Giraffe AMB radars to bolster ground-based air defenses on the Falkland Islands against a possible future threat from Argentina, reports Defense News. The Swedish company announced on 24 August that it had received an order valued at 610 Swedish krona million ($74 million dollars) from the UK Ministry of Defense for the supply of new radars and the upgrade of existing systems.

  • Monday, August 24th 2015 - 11:05 UTC

    UK reopens embassy in Teheran and Iran in London; initially at chargé d'affairs level

    At the ceremony Hammond said the attack in 2011 had been “a low point” but since the election of President Rouhani things had “steadily improved” (BBC pic)

    The British embassy in Iran has reopened, nearly four years after it was closed. Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond attended a ceremony on Sunday in Teheran with Iranian diplomats to mark the reopening while Iran has also reopened its embassy in London.

  • Monday, August 24th 2015 - 08:54 UTC

    Pope Francis and the Malvinas

    Francis’s generosity of word and openness has also made him an easy target for those who want to try and use his global popularity to push a particular cause

    By Jimmy Burns - The snapped moment of encounter projected fast and globally on the world wide web has become as much as a characteristic of the Francis papacy, as his twitter account @pontifex. This is a papacy with a charismatic personality and instinctive communicator at its helm. It is also a papacy advised by media specialists and diplomats that know something about the opportunity offered by the digital age to spread a message with an impact that would have inconceivable just a few years ago.

  • Friday, August 21st 2015 - 11:35 UTC

    Royal Navy's third Astute Class attack submarine ready for sea trials

    Artful can circumnavigate the world submerged, manufacturing the crew’s oxygen and fresh water from seawater as they go.

    Artful, the third of the U.K. Royal Navy’s new Astute Class attack submarines, has arrived at her Scottish base port from where she will carry out sea trials before entering service later this year, the U.K. Ministry of Defense announced.

  • Friday, August 21st 2015 - 05:54 UTC

    Malvinas pic controversy: “Francis spoke with his low tone but strong voice”

    “With his low tone but strong voice he only asked for the United Kingdom and Argentina to sit to dialogue,” said cabinet chief Anibal Fernandez

    Despite the controversy generated by Wednesday picture which showed Pope Francis holding a banner calling for dialogue between the United Kingdom and Argentina over the Falkland/Malvinas Islands, and later a spokesperson's dismissal of the significance of the incidence, the best definition of what really happened seems to have come from Argentina's cabinet chief Anibal Fernandez in his daily media conference, “the pontiff”, he said, spoke with his “low tone but strong voice”.

  • Thursday, August 20th 2015 - 07:30 UTC

    Pope Francis quashes any attempt to foster Falklands/Malvinas dialogue

    Pope's spokesman said the poster was handed during a weekly public gathering when lots of people give him things and “he had no idea what the item was”

    Pope Francis was sucked into Argentina's dispute with Britain over the Falkland Islands after an activist thrust a sign in his hands calling for dialogue between the two countries and President Cristina Fernandez jumped on the opportunity to rekindle the fight.

  • Monday, August 17th 2015 - 07:54 UTC

    Ecuador hits back at the UK over the Assange asylum case in London

    Foreign Office minister Hugo Swire said Ecuador's decision to harbor Assange had prevented the proper course of justice.

    Ecuador has hit back at the UK government over who is to blame for the deadlock in the case of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The 44-year-old Australian has been living in Ecuador's embassy in London for more than three years to avoid extradition to Sweden, where he faces sexual assault allegations.