International

• Monday, July 6th 2026 - 23:43 UTC

  Trump admits calling FIFA over a red card; the reversal for the US striker sparks an outcry

  

  US President Donald Trump admitted he had called FIFA President Gianni Infantino to ask that the red card shown to US striker Folarin Balogun be reviewed, after the body reversed the suspension that would have kept him out of the round-of-16 match against Belgium. The decision, unprecedented in more than six decades of World Cups, triggered a wave of criticism and formal protests from the Belgian federation and UEFA.

• Monday, July 6th 2026 - 20:35 UTC

  French football federation to file complaint over Paraguayan senator's racist attack on Mbappé

  

  The French Football Federation (FFF) announced on Monday that it will file a complaint with prosecutors over racist posts by Paraguayan senator Celeste Amarilla directed at France captain Kylian Mbappé, and called for judicial proceedings to be opened.

• Monday, July 6th 2026 - 00:45 UTC

  How Global Digital Platforms Compete for Player Attention and Loyalty

  

  The digital entertainment market is oversaturated with offers, making it increasingly difficult to attract users. Today, gaming operators spend massive budgets on advertising, but real success is determined by the ability to retain a client after their first click.

• Saturday, July 4th 2026 - 23:35 UTC

  Scathing comments on Labour’s Defense Plan, Sir Keir has scrapped more warships than Britain lost in Falklands War

  

  Former First Sea Lord Admiral Lord West has warned that the Royal Navy was in its worst state for 350 years, “the number of ships we have is pathetic, to do the things we need to do.”

• Saturday, July 4th 2026 - 06:43 UTC

  Argentina 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 overcome a debutant that pushed the tie to the limit at the Miami stadium.

• Thursday, July 2nd 2026 - 09:55 UTC

  A Spanish investigation tracks how Asia's squid fleet is upending the South Atlantic market

  

  An international investigation published by the Spanish newspaper El Confidencial, with an extensive interactive report, describes how the expansion of Asian fishing fleets in international waters —mainly Chinese— has transformed the global market for frozen squid, with a direct impact on the European fleet and consequences for fishing in the South Atlantic, one of the main sources of income for the Falklands.

• Tuesday, June 30th 2026 - 22:22 UTC

  Mercosur turns to Asia with Japan talks as the EU quota split stays unresolved

  

  Mercosur on Tuesday announced the start of trade negotiations with Japan and reaffirmed its intention to diversify alliances toward Asia during its biannual summit in Asunción, where Paraguay handed over the bloc's pro tempore presidency to Uruguay. The meeting, however, closed without an agreement on the internal distribution of export quotas under the treaty with the European Union, and again exposed the differences between Argentina and Brazil over the bloc's direction.

• Tuesday, June 30th 2026 - 08:33 UTC

  Paraguay declares a holiday after reaching the World Cup's last 16 by beating Germany

  

  Paraguay's President Santiago Peña declared a national holiday for Tuesday, June 30, to celebrate the national team's qualification for the round of 16 at the 2026 World Cup, after eliminating Germany in a penalty shootout. “Today a whole country is celebrating,” the president wrote on the social network X, where he published the decree and congratulated the team, which he called by its nickname, the Albirroja.

• Monday, June 29th 2026 - 08:30 UTC

  Argentina's Pacific-pact bid would make it a trade partner of the UK, raising a Falklands dilemma

  

  Argentina's request to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) has reopened a question over its sovereignty claim to the Falklands, since the United Kingdom is a full member of that agreement. If it goes ahead, it would be the first trade pact of this magnitude, since the 1982 war, in which Argentina would share partner status with London outside traditional multilateral frameworks such as the United Nations or the World Trade Organization.

• Monday, June 29th 2026 - 06:53 UTC

  Russia says it is developing AI-based air defense systems, expects results in November

  

  Russia is developing new air defense systems based on artificial intelligence technologies, the country's defense minister, Andrei Belousov, announced on Monday. The official said it was one of the priority projects the country aims to complete before the end of the year, against the backdrop of mounting Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian territory.