South America
Sat, 14 Nov 2026 05:24:00 GMTUS resumes flights after a four-and-a-half-hour shutdown caused by obsolete equipment
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Friday night lifted the nationwide ground stop it had ordered in the afternoon, after some four and a half hours of airspace closure that left thousands of flights cancelled. Dona...
Sat, 14 Nov 2026 00:53:00 GMTUS grounds all departing flights over an air traffic control communications failure
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Friday ordered a halt to all flights departing from the country’s airports “due to extraordinary circumstances and for reasons of safety”, following a communications failure...
Fri, 13 Nov 2026 17:09:00 GMTMicrosoft restores services after a global outage hit Outlook and Teams in more than 70 countries
Microsoft said on Friday its services were recovering after a global outage that began on Thursday afternoon, European time, and for hours affected millions of users in more than 70 countries, including public bodies in Austral...
Fri, 13 Nov 2026 17:06:00 GMTChile tells Argentina “countries do not ask permission” for its ship bound for the Falklands
Chile’s Foreign Minister Francisco Pérez Mackenna has ruled out asking Argentina for authorisation for the voyage of the Chilean vessel Danstar, which plans to reopen the commercial route between Punta Arenas and the Falklan...
Fri, 13 Nov 2026 02:58:00 GMTLeo XIV to 52,000 young people in Lima: “Be passionate about everything worthwhile”
Pope Leo XIV met some 52,000 young people at Lima’s National Stadium on Thursday, according to El País, in the last event of his stay in the Peruvian capital before travelling to Chiclayo, the diocese he led as bishop. “So...
Thu, 12 Nov 2026 22:01:00 GMTBritish veteran returns to an Argentine veteran the helmet he took in 1982
A former Royal Marine has travelled to Argentina to return to an Argentine veteran the helmet he took during the Battle of Mount Harriet in the 1982 Falklands War, in a reunion filmed for a documentary, BBC Sussex reported.
Thu, 12 Nov 2026 18:02:00 GMTLula to visit Madrid on Monday to meet Sánchez, two weeks before Spain’s election
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will visit Madrid on Monday, November 16, to meet Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, less than two weeks before the snap general election on November 29, in which Sánchez is s...
Thu, 12 Nov 2026 11:20:00 GMTParaguay’s banking superintendent arrested in the Ueno Bank investigation
Paraguay’s Superintendent of Banks, Holger Insfrán, was arrested on Thursday as part of the investigation into the collapse of Ueno Bank, which has already led to the pre-trial detention of former President Santiago Peña an...
Thu, 12 Nov 2026 10:59:00 GMTLeo XIV arrives in Peru, his “homeland”, defending international law and reconciliation
Pope Leo XIV arrived in Lima on Wednesday, the final stage of his South American tour, and in his first speech in Peru, the country where he lived for some twenty years and whose nationality he holds, called for diplomacy that ...
Thu, 12 Nov 2026 10:58:00 GMTLaw of the sea tribunal to rule on November 28 on Argentina’s bid to halt Sea Lion
The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea will announce on Saturday, November 28, its decision on Argentina’s request for provisional measures to halt the Sea Lion oil project north of the Falklands, after two days of...