South America

Tue, 10 Nov 2026 03:26:00 GMT
Princess Anne arrives in the Falklands and will open the new National Sports Complex
Princess Anne, the sister of King Charles III, arrived in the Falklands on Monday with her husband, Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence, at the start of a visit that will later take her to South Georgia, and among other engagements will formally...

Tue, 10 Nov 2026 03:15:00 GMT
Some 2.5 million people attend Leo XIV’s Mass in Buenos Aires, authorities say
Some 2.5 million people, according to local authorities, attended the Mass Pope Leo XIV celebrated on Monday in the parks of Palermo in Buenos Aires, the first by a pontiff in Argentina since John Paul II’s visit in 1987, wit...

Mon, 09 Nov 2026 15:59:00 GMT
The first Islander aircraft built entirely in the UK arrives in the Falklands
The Falkland Islands Government Air Service (FIGAS) is welcoming a new Islander aircraft on Monday, VP-FTS, the first of the type to be assembled entirely in the United Kingdom, which arrives in Stanley from Punta Arenas, Chile...

Mon, 09 Nov 2026 10:57:00 GMT
Hidden armoured vault found in a Peña home built with Ueno Bank loans
Paraguayan prosecutors and police on Sunday searched a residence of former President Santiago Peña in Ciervo Cuá, in the San Bernardino district, about 50 kilometres from Asunción, built with loans from Ueno Bank. According ...

Mon, 09 Nov 2026 10:45:00 GMT
1982 veterans parade in London as the Falklands honour the fallen on Remembrance Sunday
The Falkland Islands community paid tribute on Sunday in Stanley to those who lost their lives in conflict at the Remembrance Sunday service, while in London many British veterans of the 1982 war paraded at the main commemorati...

Mon, 09 Nov 2026 03:07:00 GMT
Lost savings and broken trust: life for those hit by Ueno Bank’s closure
For nearly three million Paraguayans, November 3 began with a message on their phone screens: “We cannot display your balance.” Early that morning, Paraguay’s Central Bank took over Ueno Bank over a critical solvency prob...

Mon, 09 Nov 2026 03:00:00 GMT
Leo XIV, before Milei: “The economy must serve the person”
Pope Leo XIV arrived in Buenos Aires on Sunday, the first papal visit to Argentina in 39 years, and in his first address to the authorities, with President Javier Milei at his side, said that “the economy must be at the servi...

Sun, 08 Nov 2026 20:16:00 GMT
Leo XIV leaves Uruguay urging Catholics to reach out to “those who have drifted away”
Pope Leo XIV ended his visit to Uruguay on Sunday with a Mass before some 30,000 faithful in the city of Florida, where he urged Catholics to reach out to those who have drifted away from the Church in South America’s most se...

Sun, 08 Nov 2026 01:53:00 GMT
Paraguay’s prosecutors charge Santiago Peña and seek his pre-trial detention over the Ueno Bank collapse
Paraguayan prosecutors on Saturday charged former President Santiago Peña, removed from office by the Senate on Friday, and requested his pre-trial detention in the case over the collapse of Ueno Bank, which froze the savings ...

Sat, 07 Nov 2026 02:55:00 GMT
Princess Anne to arrive in the Falklands on the eve of the Hamburg hearing
Princess Anne, the sister of King Charles III, will visit the Falklands and South Georgia from Monday, November 9, the day before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea holds hearings in Hamburg on Argentina’s case...

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