South America
Mon, 02 Nov 2026 00:57:00 GMTArgentina’s Sea Lion case could founder on Falklands sovereignty, a legal expert warns
Argentina’s case against the United Kingdom over the Sea Lion oil project north of the Falklands “could fall at the first hurdle”: the jurisdiction of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, which cannot settle...
Sun, 01 Nov 2026 15:52:00 GMTCost-of-living protests spread across Europe with unrest in France and Germany
Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of France and Germany on Saturday to protest against the cost of living and deteriorating public services, in mostly peaceful demonstrations that ended in clashes between police a...
Sun, 01 Nov 2026 14:48:00 GMTArgentine intellectuals reject the Falklands “national cause” amid escalating tensions with London
Nearly a hundred Argentine intellectuals, jurists, historians and politicians have signed a declaration rejecting the transformation of the Falklands dispute into a “national cause” that “admits no dissent”, and critici...
Sun, 01 Nov 2026 14:48:00 GMTDemocrats seek to retake Congress in Tuesday’s US midterm elections
The United States holds midterm elections on Tuesday in which the Democratic Party hopes to regain control of Congress, with the polls in its favour. At stake are all 435 seats in the House of Representatives and 35 of the 100 ...
Sat, 31 Oct 2026 01:14:00 GMTFrom Montevideo to Luján: Leo XIV’s tour of Uruguay and Argentina
Pope Leo XIV will begin a tour of South America in Montevideo on November 6 that will take him to Uruguay, Argentina and Peru, with open-air Masses, meetings with Presidents Yamandú Orsi and Javier Milei, and events with young...
Fri, 30 Oct 2026 18:21:00 GMTSpecialised prosecutors appeal Milei’s dismissal in the $LIBRA case and seek to reopen it
Argentina’s Office of Administrative Investigations, a specialised prosecution service for crimes committed by public officials, has appealed the dismissal of charges against President Javier Milei, his sister and presidentia...
Fri, 30 Oct 2026 18:18:00 GMTHackers steal US$6.3 billion in crypto from Binance in the sector’s biggest-ever heist
Hackers stole about US$6.3 billion in cryptocurrency from Binance, the world’s largest digital asset exchange, in the biggest theft in the sector’s history, which the US Secret Service is investigating with other agencies. ...
Fri, 30 Oct 2026 17:17:00 GMTLeo XIV becomes the first pope to vote in a US election
Pope Leo XIV has voted by mail in the US midterm elections to be held on November 3, making him the first pontiff to take part in an election in that country, the Vatican said on Friday.
Fri, 30 Oct 2026 17:00:00 GMTVenezuela names Oliver Blanco, a former opposition aide, as foreign minister
Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez has appointed Oliver Blanco, a 35-year-old diplomat who began his political career alongside a veteran opposition leader, as foreign minister in a reshuffle of her government’s ...
Fri, 30 Oct 2026 01:09:00 GMTBrazil to spend nearly three-quarters of its 2027 defence budget on personnel and pensions
Brazil plans to allocate 147.68 billion reais to defence in 2027, about US$27 billion at current exchange rates, but 73% of that will go on salaries, retirement benefits and pensions, according to the budget bill sent to Congre...