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Montevideo, September 21st 2024 - 12:11 UTC

International

  • Wednesday, July 31st 2024 - 23:55 UTC

    Falklands new Acting Governor sworn in, Adam Pile OBE son of a war Veteran

    Deputy Director for Overseas Territories Directorate, Adam Pile OBE, signs the documents at Falklands Government House

    Falklands Government House announced on Tuesday July 30 that the Deputy Director for the Overseas Territories Directorate of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, Adam Pile OBE, has been sworn in as the Acting Governor of the Falkland Islands and Acting Commissioner of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.

  • Wednesday, July 31st 2024 - 22:38 UTC

    YPF and Petronas announce joint LNG partnership in Argentine Patagonia

    The Rio Negro location offered numerous advantages over Bahía Blanca, it was explained

    Argentina's state-run oil company YPF and its Malaysian version Petronas will invest over US$ 30 billion to build a Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) plant in the Patagonian province of Río Negro, it was announced, thus ending speculations according to which such a facility was to be or should have been settled in the Bahía Blanca area in the province of Buenos Aires.

  • Wednesday, July 31st 2024 - 20:30 UTC

    International community underlines lack of transparency in Venezuelan elections

    The Carter Center is yet to publish a final report on the Venezuelan 2024 elections

    The international community keeps harboring doubts as to the authenticity of the rsults for the Venezuelan presidential elections announced in Caracas by the National Electoral Council (CNE) on Sunday. A joint statement was issued Wednesday in this regard by the foreign ministers of the seven countries making up the G7, arguably the strongest nations from an economic viewpoint which also enforce democratic principles while the Carter Center, one of the observers participating in the process, admitted it could not be considered “democratic.”

  • Wednesday, July 31st 2024 - 09:07 UTC

    Israel takes down key terrorist leaders in separate strikes

    Ismail Haniyeh and Fuad Shukr played leading roles in Hamas and Hezbollah respectively

    Two key leaders of terrorist organizations technically at war with Israel were killed Tuesday with precision long-range rockets hitting the places where they were staying. Hamas' Ismail Haniyeh was in Tehran, where he had attended Masoud Pezeshkian's presidential inauguration hours earlier while Hezbollah's “senior advisor” Fuad Shukr (alias Hajj Mohsin or Muhsin Shukr) reported to leader Hassan Nasrallah, and was wanted by the US for his role in the 1983 bombing of the Marine barracks in the Lebanese capital.

  • Wednesday, July 31st 2024 - 09:01 UTC

    Baroness Chapman, new FCDO Minister for Latin America and the Caribbean

    Baroness Chapman, “our ties with Latin America are historic, rooted in shared democratic values. I look forward to renewing our partnership”

    Baroness Jennifer Chapman of Darlington has been appointed UK Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office on 18 July 2024.

  • Wednesday, July 31st 2024 - 08:20 UTC

    Falklands Ranger Guides meet the Speaker of the House of Commons

    Lindsay Hoyle MP, speaker of the House of Commons and a good friend of the Falklands, which he has visited, addresses the Girl Guides

    On Tuesday 30th July, a group of Ranger Guides from the Falkland Islands visited the Houses of Parliament to meet with the Speaker of the House of Commons, The Rt. Hon Lindsay Hoyle MP.

  • Wednesday, July 31st 2024 - 08:00 UTC

    Labour anticipates a tax increase to fill a £22bn Tory “hole” in UK public finances

    Labour said repeatedly during the election campaign there would be no tax rises on “working people”, but Conservatives had insisted Labour would increase them.

    UK Labour chancellor Rachel Reeves anticipated that the government of PM Keir Starmer will have to raise some taxes in October's Budget, following the claim on Monday that the previous Tory government left a £22bn “hole” in the public finances.

  • Tuesday, July 30th 2024 - 19:31 UTC

    OAS report says Venezuela's elections results untrustworthy given CNE bias

    The OAS Permanent Council is to address the matter of the electoral process in Venezuela on Wednesday

    Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro's reelection is not to be taken at face value, according to the Organization of American States (OAS). The continental entity's election observation department found on Tuesday that the National Electoral Council (CNE) in Caracas is known to be pro-government biased.

  • Tuesday, July 30th 2024 - 08:55 UTC

    Argos Georgia, unsuccessful search for missing mariners; nine bodies on Tuesday to be flown to UK for autopsies

    MV Pharos SG and Argos Helena continued the search for disappeared crew members or debris during the weekend

    As part of the ongoing recovery effort for those crew members still missing from the fishing vessel Argos Georgia, over the weekend MV Pharos SG and one other vessel conducted a search of the datum area. This search unfortunately provided no further results of anyone missing or debris, points out the latest report from the Falkland Islands Government.

  • Monday, July 29th 2024 - 23:55 UTC

    Venezuela expels ambassadors from Chile, Uruguay, and other countries following election controversy

    Gil stated that Venezuela would withdraw its diplomatic personnel from these countries and demanded their representatives leave Venezuelan territory immediately.

    The regime of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has expelled ambassadors from Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Peru, Panama, the Dominican Republic, and Uruguay. This move follows widespread international condemnation of the recent presidential election results, which declared Maduro the victor amidst allegations of significant irregularities.