South America
Sat, 04 Jul 2026 07:28:00 GMTUS marks its 250th anniversary as a record heat wave disrupts July 4 events
The United States marks the 250th anniversary of its independence on Saturday amid a historic heat wave that has forced the suspension or rescheduling of events in several cities across the country. The semiquincentennial comme...
Sat, 04 Jul 2026 07:26:00 GMTPetro says he asked Trump to lift his OFAC sanctions in a phone call
Colombian President Gustavo Petro said he held a phone conversation on Friday with his US counterpart, Donald Trump, in which he asked for support in removing the sanctions on him and his family under the Office of Foreign Asse...
Sat, 04 Jul 2026 06:43:00 GMTArgentina survives a scare from debutant Cape Verde to reach the World Cup quarterfinals
Argentina beat Cape Verde 3-2 on Friday, in a match settled in extra time, to reach the quarterfinals of the World Cup being held in the United States, Mexico and Canada. The side coached by Lionel Scaloni had to dig deep to ov...
Fri, 03 Jul 2026 23:29:00 GMTSix months after Maduro's capture, Rodríguez's interim mandate expires after the quake
Six months after the capture of former president Nicolás Maduro by the United States, Venezuela faces an institutional crossroads: the 180-day interim mandate of acting President Delcy Rodríguez —granted after Maduro's remo...
Fri, 03 Jul 2026 09:58:00 GMTMercosur backs Argentina days after Islanders' UN appeal for self-determination
Within the span of a week, the two opposing positions in the Falklands dispute were laid out clearly in two separate arenas: South American governments' backing for Argentina's sovereignty claim, and the defense of self-determi...
Fri, 03 Jul 2026 08:55:00 GMTIn Uruguay, Kast urges harsher penalties for crime leaders and total prison isolation
Chile's President José Antonio Kast argued on Wednesday in Montevideo that the region's countries must toughen their laws to combat organized crime, with life sentences for those who lead gangs and a regime of total isolation ...
Fri, 03 Jul 2026 07:53:00 GMTMilei abolishes the Interior Ministry, expanding Santilli's role ahead of Congress talks
Argentina's government abolished the Interior Ministry and transferred its functions to the cabinet chief's office, headed by Diego Santilli, through an emergency decree published on Thursday in the Official Gazette. The measur...
Fri, 03 Jul 2026 07:47:00 GMTSnow blankets Mar del Plata as a record polar cold wave grips Argentina
The seaside city of Mar del Plata, one of the main tourist destinations on Argentina's Atlantic coast, woke up covered in snow on Thursday, an unusual sight for a temperate-climate city that became the most widely shared image ...
Thu, 02 Jul 2026 22:12:00 GMTArgentine ex-official Insaurralde seeks to bar the cash-stacks video from his graft case
The former cabinet chief of Buenos Aires province and ex-mayor of Lomas de Zamora, Martín Insaurralde, asked the courts not to use as evidence the video in which his ex-wife, television host Jesica Cirio, appears alongside sta...
Thu, 02 Jul 2026 15:32:00 GMTA multinational rescue frees Hernán, trapped eight days under Venezuela's quake rubble
A 43-year-old Venezuelan security guard, Hernán Gil, was rescued alive on Thursday after eight days trapped under the rubble of a building that collapsed in Catia La Mar, in La Guaira state, during the twin earthquake that str...