South America

Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:34:00 GMT
Falklands Government denies MV Bandero access over “questionable actions” at sea
The Falkland Islands government has banned the MV Bandero, a Captain Paul Watson Foundation vessel, from entering its territorial waters following the ship's collision with a Norwegian industrial krill trawler in Antarctic wate...

Sat, 11 Apr 2026 04:49:00 GMT
Argentine court orders environmental studies over HIF plant in Uruguay
A federal court in the Argentine city of Concepción del Uruguay on Friday ordered a series of environmental studies and requested information from Uruguayan agencies after accepting a lawsuit against the Uruguayan state and mu...

Sat, 11 Apr 2026 04:44:00 GMT
Orion capsule splashes down in Pacific, completing Artemis II, first crewed Moon flight in over 50 years
NASA's Orion capsule splashed down at 8:07 p.m. ET on Friday (00:07 GMT Saturday) in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego, California, completing the Artemis II mission, the first crewed flight to the Moon since Apollo ...

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:54:00 GMT
Argentina permanently revokes licenses of laboratories implicated in contaminated fentanyl case
Argentina's National Administration of Drugs, Foods and Medical Devices (Anmat) permanently revoked the operating licenses of laboratories HLB Pharma and Laboratorios Ramallo, linked to the production of contaminated fentanyl t...

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:26:00 GMT
Brazil's inflation rises to 4.14% in March driven by higher fuel and food costs
Annual inflation in Brazil accelerated to 4.14% in March, pushed higher by rising fuel and food prices, the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) reported on Friday. The figure reverses the slowdown recorded in...

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 02:18:00 GMT
Venezuelan parliament passes law opening mining sector to private capital amid rapprochement with US
Venezuela's National Assembly unanimously approved on Thursday a new 131-article Organic Mining Law that opens the door to private and foreign investment in the mining sector, on a day also marked by police repression of thousa...

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 02:09:00 GMT
Tourism accounted for nearly half of Uruguay's GDP growth in 2025, generating $2.04 billion in exports
Tourism accounted for nearly half of Uruguay's gross domestic product growth in 2025 and represented 6.2% of the country's economic activity, according to the first monitor produced by the Uruguayan Chamber of Tourism together ...

Thu, 09 Apr 2026 23:57:00 GMT
Argentina approves glacier law reform, opens previously protected areas to mining
Argentina's Chamber of Deputies passed a reform of the National Glacier Law in the early hours of Thursday, an initiative pushed by President Javier Milei's government that reduces the scope of environmental protections in the ...

Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:53:00 GMT
Scottish cameraman Doug Allan dies in Nepal during trek to Annapurna base camp
Wildlife cameraman and photographer Doug Allan died on Wednesday at a hospital in Pokhara, Nepal, after suffering a brain hemorrhage during a trek to Annapurna base camp, the world's tenth highest mountain. He was 74.

Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:36:00 GMT
Chilean Air Force conducts first-ever aerial refueling of US F-35 fighters
The Chilean Air Force (FACh) completed for the first time an aerial refueling operation involving two U.S. Air Force F-35A Lightning II fighters, in a milestone that demonstrates growing interoperability between the two countri...

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