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Montevideo, December 23rd 2024 - 06:18 UTC

United States

  • Saturday, June 22nd 2024 - 09:59 UTC

    USAF C5 lands in Asunción carrying strategic donations for Paraguay

    The mission was to have been performed in April but was delayed due to unforeseen events, it was explained

    A US Air Force C5 Super Galaxy logistics aircraft landed at around 3.30 pm Friday at Asunción's Silvio Pettirossi International Airport carrying donations from the Massachusetts National Guard. The aircraft docked at the Paraguayan Air Force (FAP) First Air Brigade in the air terminal in the city of Luque, barely outside the South American country's capital.

  • Saturday, June 15th 2024 - 00:21 UTC

    Arizona man arrested for alleged plot to incite race war at Bad Bunny concert

    Prieto disclosed his plans to an undercover FBI agent and an informant, detailing a scheme to target “blacks, Jews, or Muslims” at a concert by Puerto Rican reggaeton artist Bad Bunny

    Mark Adams Prieto, a 58-year-old resident of Prescott, Arizona, was arrested last month on federal charges related to an alleged plot to carry out a mass shooting at a Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny concert in Atlanta, Georgia. Prieto, who reportedly aimed to incite a race war, was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of firearms trafficking, transferring firearms to commit hate crimes, and possession of unregistered weapons

  • Friday, June 14th 2024 - 22:02 UTC

    G7: Milei mingles with world leaders but no picture with Lula

    Milei spent quite a while next to Biden

    Argentine President Javier Milei began mingling with the elite of the global leadership Friday at the exclusive Italian resort of Borgo Egnazia where the G7 Summit is taking place. Although the South American country is not a member of the group pitting together the seven largest world economies, he attended as a guest at the invitation of host Prime Minister Georgia Meloni who welcomed him personally.

  • Friday, June 14th 2024 - 07:32 UTC

    US submarine deployed to Guantanamo as Russian flotilla arrives in Cuba

    Pentagon Spokeswoman Sabrina Singh insisted that the Russian mission did “not pose a threat to the US”

    US authorities have ruled out that the presence of the nuclear-powered USS Helena submarine at the Guantanamo Bay base in Cuba had anything to do with the presence of a Russian flotilla in Havana.

  • Thursday, June 13th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

    MLAs Barkman and Short ready to defend Falklands' self determination at UN C24 meeting

    Members of the delegation with a Falklands flag in front of the US Congress in Washington

    A team from the Falklands Islands is currently in the United States, more precisely in Washington for a series of political contacts in Congress and the State Department.

  • Monday, June 10th 2024 - 21:52 UTC

    Blinken starts Middle East tour to broker a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas

    “Deal or no deal, it remains absolutely essential that we get more aid to Palestinians who need it,” Blinken said

    US Secretary of State Antony Blinken Monday kicked off his new Middle East tour in Cairo. He is believed to be seeking a ceasefire in Gaza eight months into the conflict triggered by the terrorist group Hamas' invasion of Israel killing over a thousand people and taking some 250 others hostage, of whom about 50% have been either rescued or handed back over to their land. It is yet to be known how many of them are still alive. Blinken reportedly plans to broker their release.

  • Monday, June 10th 2024 - 07:06 UTC

    Cattle in eleven US states with outbreaks of avian flu H5N1

    Samples were collected and sent to the University of Minnesota Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, which confirmed the presence of the virus in cows

    With the outbreak of Avian flu H5N1 in Minnesota, Midwest state bordering Canada, the number of infected cattle in the United States confirmed has reached over eighty animals across some eleven states. Besides Minnesota the other states with infected cattle include, South Dakota, New Mexico, Michigan, Iowa, Idaho, Ohio, Colorado and North Carolina.

  • Wednesday, June 5th 2024 - 09:34 UTC

    USS George Washington crosses into Chilean waters

    The USS George Washington is due in Valparaíso on June 11

    Chile's Navy confirmed Tuesday through a posting on X that the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS George Washington had crossed the Strait of Magellan into Pacific Ocean waters and was on her way to Valparaíso. Accompanying the vessel were the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Porter (DDG-78) and the Henry J. Kaiser-class fleet tanker USNS John Lenthall (T-AO-189).

  • Friday, May 31st 2024 - 19:00 UTC

    Milei rounds up Californian tour

    In his meeting with Zuckerberg (L), Milei underlined Argentina's lack of regulations regarding technological developments which could favor companies such as Meta

    Argentine President Javier Milei rounded up his Californian trip after a meeting with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and was headed for El Salvador for Nayib Bukele's new inauguration aboard the ARG-01 Boeing 757.

  • Friday, May 31st 2024 - 13:26 UTC

    US Election enters uncharted territory after verdict against Trump

    Trump made history by becoming the first former U.S. president to be convicted of a felony

    The U.S. presidential campaign has plunged into uncharted territory following a historic verdict against former President Donald Trump. Found guilty on 34 counts of falsifying accounting documents to conceal a payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels, Trump immediately shifted into campaign mode, declaring, “I'm a political prisoner!”