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Montevideo, November 21st 2024 - 06:46 UTC

United States

  • Wednesday, November 20th 2024 - 18:52 UTC

    Blinken recognizes González Urrutia as Venezuelan President-elect

    Blinken is a confessed enemy of Venezuela, the Chavista Foreign Minister Gil said

    US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday that his country was recognizing opposition candidate Edmundo González Urrutia as the winner of the July 28 elections in Venezuela despite announcements -albeit with little credibility- by authorities in Caracas that the incumbent Nicolás Maduro had prevailed. González Urrutia, who ran on behalf of the Unitarian Democratic Platform (PUD) given María Corina Machado's disenfranchisement, sought asylum in September in Spain after the Chavista regime issued an arrest warrant against him.

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  • Tuesday, November 19th 2024 - 09:47 UTC

    US to release aid package for Brazilian Amazon

    The announcement was made during Biden't trip to Manaus ahead of the G20 Summit in Rio

    The United States offered an aid package for environmental actions in the Brazilian Amazon to address climate change, it was announced Monday during President Joseph Biden's visit to Manaus as part of his journey to the country for the G20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Agencia Brasil reported. The first trip by a sitting US president to the region marked celebrations of 200 years of diplomatic relations between the two countries.

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  • Friday, November 15th 2024 - 10:46 UTC

    Milei first world leader to meet Trump post Nov. 5 elections

    “The forces of heaven are on our side,” Milei insisted at the CPAC event

    Argentine President Javier Milei Thursday became the first foreign leader to meet US President-elect Donald Trump after the latter's victory in the Nov. 5 elections. They got together at the Republican's Mar-a-Lago complex in Florida during a CPAC (Conservative Political Action Convention).

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  • Friday, November 15th 2024 - 10:27 UTC

    Port Miami cruise industry, Fiscal Year 2024 marked a new record

    Port of Miami, Cruise Capital of the World

    The port of Miami has announced a new record of passengers for the cruise industry, which totaled 8,233,056 travelers in Fiscal Year 2024, (October 1, 2023 to 30 September 30), equivalent to a 12.79% increase in cruise passenger, compared to its previous record of 7,299,294 passengers in Fiscal Year 2023, points out Cruise Industry News.

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  • Tuesday, November 12th 2024 - 06:32 UTC

    US airliner shot at when trying to land in Haiti's main airport

    The Spirit Airlines Airbus A-320 aircraft took several gunshots, it was reported by company sources in the Dominican Republic

    Violence-torn Haiti keeps making headlines worldwide as a Spirit Airlines flight from Fort Lauderdale was shot at when trying to land at noon local time by gangs surrounding Port-au-Prince's Toussaint Louverture International Airport on the same day that the new interim Prime Minister was sworn in.

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  • Friday, November 8th 2024 - 19:21 UTC

    US Federal Reserve cuts rate by 25 basis points, but future decisions to be conditioned by Trump and Republicans dominance

    Powell whose mandate ends in May 2026, said if Trump were to ask him to leave, he wouldn't go, and that such a move isn't permitted by law.

    The US Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee cut interest rates by a quarter percentage point, on Thursday, the same week in which Donald Trump was swept in as elected president with a Legislative and Judicial branch packed with his conservative populists.

  • Thursday, November 7th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

    Harris concedes defeat but promises to keep fighting

    The ruling party agreed to a smooth transition

    US Vice President Kamala Harris finally admitted Tuesday's electoral results were not what her Democrat Party had expected and conceded victory to former President Donald Trump. “When we lose an election, we accept the results,” she reckoned after telephoning the former Republican head of state to congratulate him.

  • Wednesday, November 6th 2024 - 21:25 UTC

    World leaders congratulate Trump on his win - still not Harris

    Trump declared victory early Wednesday and announced that America's golden age lay ahead

    While leaders from the world over have congratulated Republican candidate Donald J. Trump on his electoral win on Tuesday which has earned him a second 4-year term at The Oval Office, Vice President Kamala Harris is yet to acknowledge defeat, as is customary in these cases. Perhaps Trump himself was the only one to break that tradition four years ago when rumors of vote count-rigging still gave him hope against Joseph Biden.

  • Wednesday, November 6th 2024 - 10:50 UTC

    No stopping Trump's way back into White House

    Trump was spending the night at his Mar-a-Lago residence before his victory is confirmed (Pic Reuters)

    Although there was still no official confirmation, the Republican camp was preparing in the wee hours of Wednesday for what appears to be Donald Trump's unstoppable march back onto the White House following victories in key swing states such as Arizona, Michigan, and Wisconsin. Even the pro-Kamala Harris outlet The New York Times reckoned Trump's victory chances stood at “over 95%.”

  • Monday, November 4th 2024 - 22:13 UTC

    Early US election winds blowing Trump's way

    Fear grips Democratic camp where advisors still count on a comeback sprint

    Different signs on different fronts over the past few hours forecast that former US Republixan President Donald Trump was poised to returning to the White House after Tuesday's elections. However, fears of voting fraud or any other last-resort maneuver from the Democratica camp rooting for Vice President Kamala Harris were not to be ruled out.

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