South America
Wed, 14 Oct 2026 07:01:00 GMTA tornado and an unusual spring hailstorm overwhelm Santiago, Chile
An electrical storm with hail, unusual in the middle of spring, flooded streets, homes and businesses in Santiago, Chile, on Tuesday and produced a tornado that the Chilean Meteorological Directorate preliminarily classified as...
Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:03:00 GMTArgentina asks the law of the sea tribunal to halt Sea Lion and bar new oil permits
Argentina has asked the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea to order the United Kingdom to prevent the development of the Sea Lion oil project north of the Falklands and to refrain from granting new permits to exploit...
Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:00:00 GMTPope Leo XIV has lung cancer and underwent successful surgery, Vatican says
Pope Leo XIV, 71, has been diagnosed with lung adenocarcinoma and underwent successful surgery on Tuesday at Rome’s Gemelli hospital, where doctors removed the lower lobe of his right lung, the Holy See said in a medical bull...
Tue, 13 Oct 2026 19:03:00 GMTMiliband: Falklands residents have the right to develop their resources “as they see fit”
British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband said on Tuesday that the people of the Falkland Islands “have a right to develop their natural resources as they see fit”, as he announced on X the British government’s measures to pr...
Tue, 13 Oct 2026 18:53:00 GMTUK Overseas Territories Minister accuses Milei of using the Falklands for electoral ends
British Overseas Territories Minister Uma Kumaran on Tuesday accused Argentine President Javier Milei of a “brazen attempt to use the people of the Falkland Islands as some sort of political prop ahead of Argentina’s electi...
Tue, 13 Oct 2026 18:45:00 GMTLondon says it will abide by any law of the sea provisional measures as it moves to shield its companies
The British government said on Tuesday that any provisional measures ordered by the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea are binding and that the United Kingdom complies with its international obligations, on the same ...
Tue, 13 Oct 2026 14:52:00 GMTLubetkin warns Flávio Bolsonaro that “it is not easy to leave Mercosur”
Uruguay’s Foreign Minister Mario Lubetkin has warned Brazilian presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro that “it is not easy to leave Mercosur”, in response to his criticism of the bloc during the campaign for the October...
Tue, 13 Oct 2026 09:13:00 GMT“Falkland Islanders will is to remain British, and we will uphold it”, PM Burnham told Trump
“In my meeting with President Trump I raised the Falkland Islands and the clear and declared will of the Islanders to remain British”, revealed United Kingdom Prime Minister Andy Burnham in an oral statement to the House of...
Tue, 13 Oct 2026 06:29:00 GMTBrazil blames human action for the fires sweeping the Amazon
The Brazilian government has blamed deliberate human action for the wave of fires in Amazonas state, where 540 new hotspots were recorded in 48 hours, more than half of those detected in the whole of October 2025, according to ...
Tue, 13 Oct 2026 06:19:00 GMTIMF trims Latin America’s outlook to 2.3% and sharply cuts Argentina’s
The International Monetary Fund has lowered its 2026 growth forecast for Latin America and the Caribbean to 2.3%, a tenth of a point less than in July, and sharply cut Argentina’s, from 3.5% to 2.1%. Chile and Uruguay are als...