South America
Wed, 11 Nov 2026 02:12:00 GMTLeo XIV draws some 650,000 to Córdoba with a homily on holiness
Pope Leo XIV celebrated Mass on Tuesday in Córdoba, in central Argentina, before some 650,000 people, according to the newspaper El País, in a homily devoted to holiness and local saints. “There is no better way to teach th...
Tue, 10 Nov 2026 15:31:00 GMTHamburg hearing opens as Argentina seeks to halt Sea Lion and the UK disputes jurisdiction
The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea began hearing Argentina and the United Kingdom in Hamburg on Tuesday over Argentina’s request for provisional measures to halt the Sea Lion oil project north of the Falklands....
Tue, 10 Nov 2026 14:52:00 GMTVenezuela signs a memorandum with ExxonMobil for the oil major’s return after leaving in 2007
Venezuela on Monday signed a memorandum of understanding with US oil company ExxonMobil with a view to its return to the country, which it left in 2007 after the nationalisation of the last privately held oilfields under Hugo C...
Tue, 10 Nov 2026 13:35:00 GMTNicaragua: Ortega reappears after 68 days as the government gives no word on his health
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega reappeared in public on Monday night, 68 days after his last appearance, at a tribute in Managua to Carlos Fonseca, founder of the ruling Sandinista National Liberation Front. It was his longe...
Tue, 10 Nov 2026 10:55:00 GMTPrincess Anne and Sports VIPs present at official opening of Falkland Islands Sport Complex
The Falkland Islands Government and National Sports Council are proud to announce the official opening of the Falkland Islands’ new National Sports Complex, this Tuesday 10 November, in the presence of HRH The Princess Royal ...
Tue, 10 Nov 2026 10:48:00 GMTUK Defense minister admits Special Forces under mounting pressure and legal scrutiny
Britain’s Defense Secretary Wes Streeting has acknowledged the mounting pressures facing UK Special Forces (UKSF) amid ongoing legal scrutiny, as he attended his first Remembrance Sunday service since taking up the role.
Tue, 10 Nov 2026 10:44:00 GMTUK with eyes from space: launches its second military satellite, Titania
Britain has a new pair of eyes in space, with the successful launch of British-built military satellite Titania. The launch – completed last month from California on an Space X rocket– will further help the Armed Forces coo...
Tue, 10 Nov 2026 10:38:00 GMTFalklands Sports Complex, the joint effort of Government and private sector companies
The opening of the new multi-sports Falkland Islands National Sports Complex makes the Islands’ community reflect on the joint effort that brought this to fruition.
Tue, 10 Nov 2026 03:26:00 GMTPrincess Anne arrives in the Falklands and will open the new National Sports Complex
Princess Anne, the sister of King Charles III, arrived in the Falklands on Monday with her husband, Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence, at the start of a visit that will later take her to South Georgia, and among other engagements w...
Tue, 10 Nov 2026 03:15:00 GMTSome 2.5 million people attend Leo XIV’s Mass in Buenos Aires, authorities say
Some 2.5 million people, according to local authorities, attended the Mass Pope Leo XIV celebrated on Monday in the parks of Palermo in Buenos Aires, the first by a pontiff in Argentina since John Paul II’s visit in 1987, wit...