The 'international contact group' of European and Latin American countries, who will mediate in Venezuela, meets for the first time on Thursday. That happens in the Uruguayan capital...
Former Peruvian head of state Alan García has applied for asylum in Uruguay. García visited the Uruguayan embassy in Lima and requested asylum there, reported the Peruvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The legalization of cannabis cultivation in Canada Wednesday caused investors headaches on the first legal working day with stock market losses.
In Canada, cannabis was sold for the first time legally. Canadians stood in line to buy the soft drug, media reports in the North American country.
Once he was 'the poorest president in the world' and even after his resignation as senator this week it is not a fat spot. José Mujica refuses a pension for the five years he was in the Senate after the same period as President of Uruguay.
Argentina is assisted in the search for the submarine ARA San Juan by, among others, Great Britain and the United States. The British search with a ship for the submarine, with which no contact has been since Wednesday. The Americans participate in the search with two naval vessels.
A plane with two people aboard crashed on Monday in Uruguay during the commemoration of an airplane in the Andes in 1972. The passenger did not survive the crash.
One of Italy's most sought after mafia bosses, Rocco Morabito, has been fleeing in Uruguay after 23 years. According to the Italian Interior Minister, Morabito is one of Italy's most dangerous mafia bosses. He is a member of N'drangheta.
Important South American countries are opposed to military intervention in Venezuela. The Mercosur organization, with Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay as members, said Saturday that dialogue and diplomacy were 'the only acceptable means' to promote democracy in Venezuela.
A massive cargo ship is missing from 24 people on board off the coast of the South American Uruguay. The 312 meter long Stellar Daisy, owned by a South Korean company would have water.
For the second time in a year this week became a young dolphin suffered the selfie-drive tourists to the Argentine beaches. This time it was a group of tourists in San Bernardo, just south of Buenos Aires, which lifted a young animal out of the water for them to be photographed.
The last dictator of Uruguay, General Gregorio Alvarez, is deceased at the age of 91. Which announced a military hospital in Montevideo, Uruguayan media said.
The Chilean government comes up with a bill in the first half of 2017 to legalize gay marriage. That promised the Chilean President Michelle Bachelet during a panel discussion at the United Nations.
Brazil is furious with the Uruguayan Minister of Foreign Affairs. Who accused Brazil of having to buy the voice of Uruguay in the president election free trade bloc Mercosur.
War violence has cost the world over the past year 11.5 trillion. That's about 13 percent of the gross domestic product of the entire world. This enables the Australian based think tank Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) in the annual Peace Index (Global Peace Index).
The world is less peaceful than a year ago. The Netherlands is of the 163 countries surveyed in 21st place in the ranking of the most peaceful countries. Iceland is still the most peaceful country in the world. It reports the British newspaper The Independent.
In Argentina condemned fifteen former soldiers to abduct and murder of leftist dissidents in the framework of Operation Condor. The ruling was enthusiastically welcomed by human rights activists.
They are just the two and are considered lovely rodents. Two capybaras knew Tuesday from the High Park Zoo in escaping the Canadian city of Toronto and since search literally dozens of people to the skittish animals. They are big, as capybaras, the largest rodents in the world and can be up to 65 kilos.
The Rolling Stones have on the final stop of their tour Latina Olé Monday local time in Mexico City drawn 60,000 visitors. For ten years the legendary rock group had not been to Mexico, said singer Mick Jagger.
The South Korean head of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, the latest North Korean nuclear test condemned fiercely. He called the test that North Korea conducted Wednesday,, extremely destabilizing. ''
Northwest England struggling for the second time in a month's time with major flooding. Elsewhere in the world it is not a standard in December again.
An estimated 130,000 people are due to heavy rainfall and high water levels in the South American Paraguay on the run from the water. The large flows of the rivers Paraguay, Paraná, and Uruguay Quarai entered by the extremely wet weather far beyond their banks and cause a nuisance in their catchment areas in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay.
President Tabaré Vázquez of Uruguay and his physician have a plane saved the life of a fourteen-year-old Frenchwoman. The girl was after eating a peanut allergy attack and fell into acute respiratory distress. After the crew had requested via the telecom whether a doctor was aboard, sped Vázquez - from home oncologist - directly to the child. His personal physician, and he had the girl immediately to an injection.
Egypt , Japan , Senegal, Ukraine and Uruguay on Thursday elected for a term of two years in the United Nations Security Council . The general meeting of the national organization chose the countries after the New Year Chad , Chile , Jordan, Lithuania and Nigeria replaced .
