South America
Thu, 22 Oct 2026 02:24:00 GMTA partial win in Hamburg could help Milei in 2027, an analysis suggests
Argentina has slim chances of persuading the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea to halt the Sea Lion oil project north of the Falklands by invoking its sovereign rights, but it could secure a partial victory on envir...
Thu, 22 Oct 2026 02:14:00 GMTGlobal alert over two critical PHP flaws forces government websites offline
Governments and companies in several countries temporarily took websites offline this week over two critical vulnerabilities in PHP, the programming language that powers much of the internet, which allow an attacker to run code...
Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:07:00 GMTMilei says Argentina will pursue the Falklands diplomatically: “We do not believe in military solutions”
Argentine President Javier Milei said in Madrid on Wednesday that he is confident of recovering the Falklands through diplomacy and repeated three times that his government “does not believe in military solutions”, amid an ...
Wed, 21 Oct 2026 19:14:00 GMTParaguay’s president travels to Washington and will meet the CIA director
Paraguayan President Santiago Peña travelled to Washington on Wednesday for a brief visit that includes a meeting with US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director John Ratcliffe and a keynote address at the annual gala of th...
Wed, 21 Oct 2026 14:44:00 GMTAn unusual die-off of southern right whales in Argentine Patagonia alarms scientists
Scientists monitoring the southern right whale population at Península Valdés, in Argentina’s Chubut province, have recorded since July an unusual number of deaths among calves and adults which, they expect, could make this...
Wed, 21 Oct 2026 14:31:00 GMTMilei calls Sánchez an “unpresentable dictator” in Madrid in the middle of Spain’s election campaign
Argentine President Javier Milei on Wednesday called Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez an “unpresentable dictator”, “corrupt” and “authoritarian”, and urged Spaniards to “kick the socialists out” of power, a...
Wed, 21 Oct 2026 14:21:00 GMTLula ramps up public handouts in the final stretch of Brazil’s presidential campaign
Some 20 million Brazilian families begin receiving this week a 15% increase in the Bolsa Família social programme, the centrepiece of a broad package of aid, subsidies and tax cuts announced by President Luiz Inácio Lula da S...
Wed, 21 Oct 2026 13:29:00 GMTAmazon fires rise 62% in October as deforestation falls to a record low
Satellites detected 9,045 fire hotspots in the Brazilian Amazon in the first half of October, 62% more than in the same period last year, amid a drought aggravated by El Niño. The increase contrasts with the fall in deforestat...
Wed, 21 Oct 2026 13:01:00 GMTThe area of Antarctic ozone hole during September reached 15 million km2, says Copernicus
The Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) (*) has found that the 2026 Antarctic ozone hole reached a significant size threshold slightly earlier than average, aligned with 2025. It has also stayed ahead of average, un...
Wed, 21 Oct 2026 10:15:00 GMTFalklands: UK Statement at the UN Fourth Committee on Decolonization
Statement by Ambassador Kate Foster, UK Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN, at the UN’s Special Political and Decolonization Fourth Committee. "The United Kingdom has no doubt about its sovereignty over both the Falkl...