South America
Sat, 09 May 2026 06:43:00 GMTTenerife braces for race-against-time operation to evacuate 140 from MV Hondius
Spain faces a complex international operation in Tenerife on Sunday to evacuate the passengers and crew of the cruise ship MV Hondius, struck by a hantavirus outbreak that has left three dead and five laboratory-confirmed cases...
Sat, 09 May 2026 05:49:00 GMTArgentine court reinstates full force of Milei's labor reform
An Argentine court on Friday lifted the precautionary injunction that had suspended 82 of the 218 articles of the labor reform pushed by President Javier Milei, restoring the full force of one of the most contested laws in the ...
Fri, 08 May 2026 15:40:00 GMTUshuaia landfill scrutinized in cruise ship hantavirus outbreak probe
Seven kilometers from downtown Ushuaia, the municipal landfill serving Argentina's southernmost city has become one of the focal points of the epidemiological investigation into the hantavirus outbreak aboard the MV Hondius cru...
Fri, 08 May 2026 15:37:00 GMTVenezuela confirms death of political prisoner Víctor Hugo Quero, ten months after he died
Venezuela's Ministry for Prison Services confirmed on Thursday the death of political prisoner Víctor Hugo Quero Navas, a 51-year-old merchant, nearly ten months after he died in state custody and following more than a year of...
Fri, 08 May 2026 05:08:00 GMTLula and Trump declare bilateral relationship reset after three-hour meeting at the White House
The presidents of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and the United States, Donald Trump, held a meeting of close to three hours at the White House on Thursday in which both leaders declared an end to one of the most severe bi...
Fri, 08 May 2026 02:14:00 GMTUnited States imposes new sanctions on Cuban military conglomerate GAESA amid escalating pressure
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced on Thursday a new package of sanctions against the Grupo de Administración Empresarial S.A. (GAESA), the conglomerate linked to the Cuban Armed Forces that controls approximately 40%...
Fri, 08 May 2026 01:51:00 GMTFirst counts confirm Reform UK's advance in Labour heartlands and open the door to a leadership crisis
The first ballots counted in the local elections held on Thursday across the United Kingdom confirmed the advance of the far-right Reform UK party, led by Nigel Farage, in territories historically dominated by Labour in the nor...
Fri, 08 May 2026 01:20:00 GMTFalklands brace for Middle East fallout with fuel, shipping and supply contingencies
The conflict in the Strait of Hormuz and its consequences for the global supply of oil and other derivative products have not bypassed the Falkland Islands, which, as one local lawmaker put it, sit "at the tail end of global di...
Thu, 07 May 2026 23:08:00 GMTFalklands students send special message to Sir David Attenborough on his 100th birthday
Students from the Falkland Islands' schools have prepared a video message for Sir David Attenborough to mark the broadcaster and naturalist's 100th birthday, which he will celebrate on Friday, May 8. The initiative, announced b...
Thu, 07 May 2026 15:08:00 GMTLula arrives at the White House to mend fences with Trump after a year of tariffs and disputes
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was received on Thursday by his American counterpart Donald Trump at the White House, in his first official visit to Washington since his return to power in 2023 and the second fac...