South America
Tue, 03 Nov 2026 09:29:00 GMTThe Pope arrives in an Argentina where bishops are among Milei’s firmest critics
Pope Leo XIV will arrive in Buenos Aires on Sunday on a visit that Javier Milei’s government presents as strictly pastoral, but which takes place amid tension with Argentina’s Catholic hierarchy, one of the most critical vo...
Tue, 03 Nov 2026 09:18:00 GMTAyuso honours Kast in Madrid on the eve of the Ibero-American Summit: “We defend the same things”
The president of the Madrid regional government, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, on Monday awarded the region’s International Medal to Chilean President José Antonio Kast, who is in the Spanish capital for the 30th Ibero-American Summit...
Tue, 03 Nov 2026 00:31:00 GMTCorruption joins the cost of living as a top concern for US voters
The United States votes on Tuesday in midterm elections in which corruption has emerged in the final stretch as one of voters’ main concerns, second only to the cost of living, according to several polls. At stake are all 435...
Tue, 03 Nov 2026 00:08:00 GMTFalklands representative in London honours the Islands’ fallen at Westminster
The Falkland Islands Government Representative to the UK and Europe, Richard Hyslop, has placed a commemorative cross at the House of Commons Garden of Remembrance in London in memory of Falkland Islanders killed in both world ...
Mon, 02 Nov 2026 15:23:00 GMTAn Oxford professor to sit as the UK's chosen judge in the Falklands dispute in Hamburg
British jurist Vaughan Lowe, emeritus professor of public international law at the University of Oxford, will be the judge ad hoc chosen by the United Kingdom in the case between Argentina and London before the International Tr...
Mon, 02 Nov 2026 00:57:00 GMTArgentina’s Sea Lion case could founder on Falklands sovereignty, a legal expert warns
Argentina’s case against the United Kingdom over the Sea Lion oil project north of the Falklands “could fall at the first hurdle”: the jurisdiction of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, which cannot settle...
Sun, 01 Nov 2026 15:52:00 GMTCost-of-living protests spread across Europe with unrest in France and Germany
Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of France and Germany on Saturday to protest against the cost of living and deteriorating public services, in mostly peaceful demonstrations that ended in clashes between police a...
Sun, 01 Nov 2026 14:48:00 GMTArgentine intellectuals reject the Falklands “national cause” amid escalating tensions with London
Nearly a hundred Argentine intellectuals, jurists, historians and politicians have signed a declaration rejecting the transformation of the Falklands dispute into a “national cause” that “admits no dissent”, and critici...
Sun, 01 Nov 2026 14:48:00 GMTDemocrats seek to retake Congress in Tuesday’s US midterm elections
The United States holds midterm elections on Tuesday in which the Democratic Party hopes to regain control of Congress, with the polls in its favour. At stake are all 435 seats in the House of Representatives and 35 of the 100 ...
Sat, 31 Oct 2026 01:14:00 GMTFrom Montevideo to Luján: Leo XIV’s tour of Uruguay and Argentina
Pope Leo XIV will begin a tour of South America in Montevideo on November 6 that will take him to Uruguay, Argentina and Peru, with open-air Masses, meetings with Presidents Yamandú Orsi and Javier Milei, and events with young...