South America
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...
Fri, 25 Sep 2026 10:41:00 GMT“The UN has more reason to exist every day”, Uruguay's president said two days after Milei
Uruguayan President Yamandú Orsi defended the United Nations' relevance and condemned the economic embargo on Cuba before the General Assembly on Thursday, in an address of just under twenty minutes that contrasted with that o...
Fri, 25 Sep 2026 10:26:00 GMTPoverty in Argentina rises to 32.3%, ending two years of decline
Poverty in Argentina reached 32.3% of people in the first half of 2026, an increase of 4.1 percentage points on the second half of 2025, the National Institute of Statistics and Census reported on Thursday. The figure interrupt...
Fri, 25 Sep 2026 09:37:00 GMTTrump and Xi end the state visit with the trade truce extended and no substantive deals
Chinese President Xi Jinping's state visit to Washington ended on Thursday with a two-month extension of the bilateral trade truce, agreed before the meeting itself, and no progress on the central issues dividing the two powers...
Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:10:00 GMTNine days from the vote, neither Brazilian front-runner comes close to 50%
Neither of Brazil's two leading presidential candidates is approaching the threshold needed to win outright on October 4, according to the latest Datafolha poll, which puts President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on 40% of voting ...
Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:08:00 GMTNetanyahu rejects genocide allegations before an assembly emptied by dozens of delegations
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday called genocide allegations against his country over the war in Gaza "the biggest lie of the century", in an address to the United Nations General Assembly that dozens of de...
Thu, 24 Sep 2026 23:47:00 GMTPunta Arenas/Falklands maritime links are based on history, economics and geography
The announced maritime and trade link between Punta Arenas in Chile and the Falkland Islands has been strongly argued and supported by the main newspaper from the Chilean austral city on the Magellan Strait and capital of the M...
Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:59:00 GMTUK replies to Milei: “not the behaviour we expect of a democracy”
The United Kingdom has asked for a written statement to be placed in the official record of the UN General Assembly in response to Argentine President Javier Milei's address, saying Buenos Aires' conduct over the Falklands “i...