South America
Tue, 13 Oct 2026 09:13:00 GMT“Falkland Islanders will is to remain British, and we will uphold it”, PM Burnham told Trump
“In my meeting with President Trump I raised the Falkland Islands and the clear and declared will of the Islanders to remain British”, revealed United Kingdom Prime Minister Andy Burnham in an oral statement to the House of...
Tue, 13 Oct 2026 06:29:00 GMTBrazil blames human action for the fires sweeping the Amazon
The Brazilian government has blamed deliberate human action for the wave of fires in Amazonas state, where 540 new hotspots were recorded in 48 hours, more than half of those detected in the whole of October 2025, according to ...
Tue, 13 Oct 2026 06:19:00 GMTIMF trims Latin America’s outlook to 2.3% and sharply cuts Argentina’s
The International Monetary Fund has lowered its 2026 growth forecast for Latin America and the Caribbean to 2.3%, a tenth of a point less than in July, and sharply cut Argentina’s, from 3.5% to 2.1%. Chile and Uruguay are als...
Mon, 12 Oct 2026 22:09:00 GMTIguazú Falls closed as the river’s flow tops 12,000 cubic metres per second
Iguazú National Park, in Argentina’s Misiones province, closed access to the falls’ walkways on Monday because of an exceptional rise in the Iguazú River, whose flow exceeded 12,000 cubic metres per second. The flood is p...
Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:57:00 GMTRepublican senators urge Trump to cancel the Putin diesel deal as unlawful
Four Republican and three Democratic members of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee have urged President Donald Trump to “immediately reverse course” on his diesel supply deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin, ar...
Mon, 12 Oct 2026 10:50:00 GMTLula takes to the streets of São Paulo to close the gap two weeks before the runoff
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva led a large rally on São Paulo’s Avenida Paulista on Sunday to relaunch his campaign two weeks before the October 25 runoff, in which he trails Senator Flávio Bolsonaro. “Thi...
Mon, 12 Oct 2026 08:59:00 GMTPope Leo XIV to undergo surgery on a lung nodule a month before his tour of Uruguay, Argentina and Peru
Pope Leo XIV will undergo surgery in Rome this week to remove a lung nodule detected at an early stage, less than a month before the start of his first tour of South America, which will take him to Uruguay, Argentina and Peru f...
Mon, 12 Oct 2026 08:56:00 GMTLawyers and opposition challenge Milei’s citizenship-by-investment scheme as unconstitutional
The citizenship-by-investment programme launched by Javier Milei’s government, which allows foreigners to obtain Argentine nationality in exchange for a US$350,000 contribution to the Treasury or the purchase of a US$800,000 ...
Mon, 12 Oct 2026 07:10:00 GMTBrexit campaigner Daniel Hannan warns a US shift on the Falklands would wreck the Atlantic alliance
Daniel Hannan, one of the leading strategists of the Brexit campaign and director general of the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), has warned in the Washington Examiner that a change in the US position on the Falklands would...
Mon, 12 Oct 2026 07:06:00 GMTYields on key US Treasury bonds reached new highs, but for the 10-year demand was especially strong
Yields on key US Treasury bonds touched fresh 24-year highs Wednesday as the latest global bond sell-off picked up steam. The 10-year Treasury yield rose as high as 5.36%, and the 30-year Treasury yield hit 5.73% — the highes...