South America
Mon, 28 Sep 2026 09:33:00 GMTLondon says Argentina “lacks the ability” to take the Falklands
British Defence Secretary Wes Streeting said Argentina “lacks the ability” to take the Falkland Islands and that the United Kingdom “has the ability to defend” them, in an interview with the Sunday paper The Sun on Sund...
Mon, 28 Sep 2026 08:09:00 GMTChile reinforcing its military presence in Magallanes Region and Antarctica
Chile announced the reinforcement of its military capacities in the Magallanes Region, extreme south of the country with a plan that includes renewal of aircraft, modernization of armored vehicles, increased vigilance and prese...
Mon, 28 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMTFalklands at Labour Conference in Liverpool
British political parties are holding their annual round of conferences and Labour, in government, has chosen the city of Liverpool for a gathering that started on Sunday, 27 September and will last for three days until 30th Se...
Mon, 28 Sep 2026 07:51:00 GMTThe Telegraph links the Chagos deal to Argentina's Falklands campaign
An opinion column published on Sunday in the British newspaper The Telegraph argues that the decision to transfer sovereignty over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius served as a signal of weakness that encouraged claims over other...
Mon, 28 Sep 2026 06:01:00 GMTBritain has just received a painful reminder that nobody respects weakness
By Daniel Hannan (*)
As the Chagos humiliation shows, the Foreign Office’s slavish adoration of international courts has got us nowhere. What has all our imagined soft power brought us? For all our performative internationa...
Sun, 27 Sep 2026 12:26:00 GMTBrazil reaches the election with its top court under suspicion and the candidates tied
Brazil votes next Sunday in a presidential election that arrives with the Supreme Federal Court mired in its worst institutional crisis since the return to democracy, the right's candidate formally under investigation in the sa...
Sat, 26 Sep 2026 11:06:00 GMTDe la Espriella announces the reopening of oil exploration in Colombia, including fracking
Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella announced on Friday that his government will "fully" reopen hydrocarbon exploration and the signing of new contracts, including hydraulic fracturing, during the swearing-in of busine...
Fri, 25 Sep 2026 23:26:00 GMTFalklands Assembly responds to Argentina's campaign: “This Assembly remains calm”
The chair of the Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly, Jack Ford, said on Thursday during a sitting of the body that there is “nothing new” in the claims made this week, and that the institution “remains calm” and stea...
Fri, 25 Sep 2026 21:35:00 GMTThe Falklands economic development agency appoints Josh Smith as managing director
The Falkland Islands Development Corporation, the archipelago's economic development agency, announced on Friday the appointment of Josh Smith as its new managing director, subject to final relocation arrangements. He will succ...
Fri, 25 Sep 2026 21:28:00 GMTMilei and Netanyahu discussed the Falklands in his only bilateral in New York
Argentine President Javier Milei met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for about twenty minutes on Thursday at United Nations headquarters, in what was his only bilateral meeting with a head of state or government durin...