South America

Sat, 17 Oct 2026 06:23:00 GMT
Bolsonaro and Lula head into the final stretch of Brazil’s campaign in a statistical tie
Senator Flávio Bolsonaro and President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva are heading into the final days of the campaign for the October 25 runoff in a statistical tie, according to two new polls. A Datafolha survey released on Thurs...

Sat, 17 Oct 2026 06:17:00 GMT
Brent touches US$110 for the first time since May on Middle East tensions
Brent crude reached US$110 a barrel on Friday for the first time since May, driven by fears that escalation in the Middle East could further tighten supplies and by doubts over how much diesel Russia can supply to the market. B...

Fri, 16 Oct 2026 21:50:00 GMT
Trump drops his new press secretary after a week of controversy
Katie Zacharia will leave her post as White House press secretary just five days after taking it up, according to advisers to President Donald Trump quoted by several US media outlets, following a widely criticised first briefi...

Fri, 16 Oct 2026 21:50:00 GMT
Rodrigues-Birkett, UN leadership hopeful: “Not choosing a woman would send a very negative message”
Guyana’s ambassador to the UN, Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett, one of the best-placed candidates to succeed António Guterres at the head of the organisation, has warned that not choosing a woman “would send a very negative mess...

Fri, 16 Oct 2026 21:50:00 GMT
Kast and Paz open the way in La Paz to normalising Chile-Bolivia relations
Chilean President José Antonio Kast and his Bolivian counterpart Rodrigo Paz pledged on Friday in La Paz to move towards normalising diplomatic relations “at the highest level”, broken off since 1978, during a visit the Ch...

Fri, 16 Oct 2026 13:59:00 GMT
Royal Navy urged to replace defective Ice Patrol HMS Protector
The Royal Navy's only ice patrol vessel has been towed into Devonport, reportedly with a double engine failure, raising fresh concerns over how the news will be interpreted by Argentina. HMS Protector fulfils an icebreaking rol...

Fri, 16 Oct 2026 10:07:00 GMT
The Falklands dispute threatens Argentina’s bid to join the trans-Pacific trade pact
The escalating dispute between Argentina and the United Kingdom over the Sea Lion oil project north of the Falklands has spilled into trade: London, a member of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Part...

Fri, 16 Oct 2026 09:59:00 GMT
Inter-American Court hears case over the April 11, 2002 killings in Caracas
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights held this week in San José, Costa Rica, the first public hearing in the case over the killings of April 11, 2002 in Caracas, when an opposition march came under gunfire near the Miraflo...

Fri, 16 Oct 2026 09:52:00 GMT
Uruguay signs a US$5.7 billion data centre investment with Spain’s Solaria
Uruguayan President Yamandú Orsi on Wednesday signed an agreement with Spanish company Solaria Energía y Medio Ambiente to develop a data centre campus of up to 500 megawatts with its own solar generation, a US$5.7 billion in...

Fri, 16 Oct 2026 09:40:00 GMT
Argentina abstains on a Russian UN resolution on colonialism and draws criticism
Argentina abstained on Thursday in a vote by the UN General Assembly’s Fourth Committee on a Russian-sponsored draft on “contemporary forms of colonialism”, a decision that Buenos Aires province’s government minister, o...

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