South America

Sun, 09 Aug 2026 20:58:00 GMT
Keiko Fujimori starts her term in Peru with 60% approval, Datum poll finds
Peruvian President Keiko Fujimori has begun her five-year term with a 60% approval rating, against 24% disapproval and 16% who gave no opinion, according to a Datum Internacional survey published on Sunday by the newspaper El C...

Sun, 09 Aug 2026 20:44:00 GMT
Bolivia records its first same-sex civil marriage after a court ruling
Bolivia has recorded its first civil marriage between two people of the same sex, held on Friday, August 7, in Santa Cruz, the country's most populous city, following a legal process that lasted three years and ten months.

Sun, 09 Aug 2026 20:37:00 GMT
Uruguay's Partido Nacional sets a 2030 return to government as its goal
The president of the board of Uruguay's Partido Nacional, Álvaro Delgado, on Sunday called on members of the country's main opposition force to “build the history of the future” and set a return to government in 2030 as th...

Sun, 09 Aug 2026 20:05:00 GMT
Machado congratulates De la Espriella and says Venezuela will soon follow suit
Venezuelan opposition leader and 2025 Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado congratulated Colombia's new president, Abelardo de la Espriella, and said Venezuela would "very soon" undertake a process of institutional ...

Sat, 08 Aug 2026 07:52:00 GMT
De la Espriella sworn in before Congress in Cali, delivers first speech to the military
Abelardo de la Espriella took office as president of Colombia in Cali on Friday, the first time a Colombian leader has been sworn in outside Bogotá, and delivered his first speech at an Army battalion rather than before Congre...

Sat, 08 Aug 2026 07:48:00 GMT
Falklands: 'South Atlantic Sentinel' exercise involves all three services
In late July, forces from the three services stationed at Mount Pleasant Complex in the Falkland Islands — headquarters of British Forces South Atlantic Islands (BFSAI) — took part in a series of military exercises designed...

Sat, 08 Aug 2026 07:38:00 GMT
Celtic roots of both the Falklands and Malvinas names?
The Irish Times has published a very interesting piece from Tomaí Ó Conghaile following on the fallout from the World Cup, who argues that both the English and Spanish versions of the Falkland-Malvinas Islands names have thei...

Sat, 08 Aug 2026 07:26:00 GMT
Falklands: rise in the CPI, caused by the conflict in the Middle East
The Consumer Price Index (CPI), according to official Falkland Islands figures, recorded a quarterly increase of 3.4% as a result of the impact of higher fuel prices.

Sat, 08 Aug 2026 07:00:00 GMT
China will have the largest embassy in London, the former Royal Mint
The UK High Court on Friday threw out a challenge against UK authorities' decision to permit a new Chinese super embassy in central London. The challenge was brought by a neighborhood group called the Royal Mint Court Residents...

Fri, 07 Aug 2026 21:17:00 GMT
Venezuelan government and opposition open US-backed talks
Delegations from the Venezuelan government and one sector of the opposition met on Thursday in Caracas to open negotiations backed by the United States, in the first face-to-face encounter since Nicolás Maduro's detention by U...

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