South America
Mon, 31 Aug 2026 22:13:00 GMTBrazil: Flávio Bolsonaro promises 500,000 prison places inspired by the Salvadoran model
Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, the Liberal Party's presidential candidate and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's main rival in October's elections, met on Sunday in São Paulo with El Salvador's justice and public security minister, Gust...
Mon, 31 Aug 2026 22:10:00 GMT“I gave everything, I have nothing left”: Messi ends twenty years with Argentina
Lionel Messi announced on Monday his retirement from the Argentine national team at the age of 39, in a handwritten letter posted on his social media accounts, 43 days after the World Cup final defeat to Spain.
Mon, 31 Aug 2026 08:47:00 GMTFalklands’ oil industry, Rockhopper plans equity raise for second FPSO
Rockhopper Exploration is planning an equity capital raising to fund its share of a second FPSO, (OSX-1), for the Sea Lion oil field development in the Falkland Islands, since operator Navitas Petroleum exercised its option to ...
Mon, 31 Aug 2026 08:46:00 GMTThe Panama Canal will cut daily transits from Wednesday because of drought
The Panama Canal will reduce the number of vessels allowed to cross from 38 to 34 a day from September 3, and to 32 from the 15th, as well as imposing new draught restrictions, because of falling water levels linked to El Niño...
Mon, 31 Aug 2026 08:42:00 GMTPM Burnham addresses cost of living and young people priorities in first visit to Northern Ireland
Prime Minister Andy Burnham arrived Thursday in Northern Ireland as part of his summer tour of the United Kingdom, to discuss cost of living, young people priorities and an overall growth agenda. In Northern Ireland for the fir...
Mon, 31 Aug 2026 08:40:00 GMTBritish Embassy in Santiago contributes to advance offshore wind development in Chile
The British Embassy in Santiago earlier this month organized an event which brought together government authorities, industry representatives and academia to discuss key findings of the reports and explore next steps for the de...
Mon, 31 Aug 2026 08:35:00 GMTUkraine and Iran Wars Expose the Flaws in Nuclear Deterrence
By Melissa Parke (*)
In recent weeks, Ukraine has been striking targets deep inside Russia with large-scale drone attacks and long-range missiles. Some commentators in Western media have hailed Ukraine for beginning to turn t...
Mon, 31 Aug 2026 08:31:00 GMTFalklands’ 3-year Green Program injected £892,000 to the Islands economy
After 3 years of the Green Business Programme, the Falkland Islands Development Corporation, FIDC, have injected a total of £892,000 in financing through a variety of environmentally focused loans and grants into the Falklands...
Mon, 31 Aug 2026 08:21:00 GMTCeuta’s anti migrant ‘invasion’ rhetoric threatens Europe’s food supply and economy
By Diana Tung and Seth M. Holmes (*)
In August 2026, a deep humanitarian crisis unfolded in Ceuta, a small Spanish enclave situated on Morocco’s northern coast. Around 72,000 people entered from Morocco over the course of tw...
Sun, 30 Aug 2026 23:54:00 GMTMaduro releases his first images from the Brooklyn jail, taken two months ago
Former Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro released on Sunday, through his X account, the first known photographs since he entered the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York, where he has been held since January. ...