MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) – Syrian refugees protested outside the Uruguayan presidency Monday to demand authorities help them leave for other countries, saying the nation that gave them sanctuary is ...

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) – A resettled former Guantanamo detainee who alarmed some officials when he recently went missing for several weeks is planning a hunger strike to demand he be allowed to ...

The program will directly benefit Uruguay’s 3.5 million inhabitants, particularly the two million people living in the Montevideo metropolitan area, where water demand and waste generation are most ...

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — Voters in the small South American nation of Uruguay picked a new president Sunday in a race between two moderates that defied regional trends of bitter division and ...

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MONTEVIDEO (Reuters) - A former Guantanamo prisoner who was resettled in Uruguay but has asked to leave was denied entry to South Africa by that country's migration authorities, a Uruguayan official ...

After two decades living with Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), Beatriz Gelos was hoping Uruguay's Senate would finally pass a euthanasia bill on October 15, 2025, ending years of parliamentary back-and-forth ...

Uruguay on Wednesday legalized euthanasia, becoming one of the first countries in Latin America and among a dozen worldwide ...

Jose “Pepe” Mujica, a former leftist rebel who became Uruguay’s president from 2010 to 2015, has died at the age of 89. Uruguayan President Yamandu Orsi announced his death in a social media post on ...