United States

• Tuesday, September 1st 2026 - 17:28 UTC

  Milei announces a national address on Thursday over the Falklands claim

  

  Argentine President Javier Milei announced on Tuesday that he will address the nation on Thursday evening to set out the state of the sovereignty claim over the Falklands, a day after US President Donald Trump said he was reviewing his country's position on the archipelago.

• Tuesday, September 1st 2026 - 11:26 UTC

  Trump says he reviews “every position” when asked about Falklands sovereignty

  

  US President Donald Trump replied on Monday in the Oval Office, when asked whether his government was reviewing its position of neutrality on the Falklands: “I always review every position. That's just one of many.” It is the first time he has publicly addressed the sovereignty dispute between the United Kingdom and Argentina, though his answer committed to nothing.

• Tuesday, September 1st 2026 - 09:55 UTC

  A Pentagon memo already floated in April using the Falklands as leverage over London

  

  Senior US Defense Department officials are considering a review of Washington's position on the Falklands as one of several measures to press the United Kingdom to meet the 5% of gross domestic product military spending target agreed at NATO, the British newspaper The Telegraph reported, citing a senior US official.

• Tuesday, September 1st 2026 - 09:23 UTC

  The Venezuelan oil concession goes to Alejandro Betancourt's firm, under investigation in Europe

  

  The White House on Monday identified the company that will operate seventeen Venezuelan oil fields for a century in partnership with the US government: North American Blue Energy Partners, owned by Venezuelan businessman Alejandro Betancourt, who is under investigation in Switzerland and Spain over his alleged involvement in a scheme to launder funds from the state oil company PDVSA. There is no conviction against him.

• Sunday, August 30th 2026 - 23:54 UTC

  Maduro releases his first images from the Brooklyn jail, taken two months ago

  

  Former Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro released on Sunday, through his X account, the first known photographs since he entered the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York, where he has been held since January. The images show him in sportswear making a victory sign.

• Saturday, August 29th 2026 - 04:58 UTC

  The US will control 55% of output from the new oil company in Venezuela

  

  US President Donald Trump announced on Friday an agreement with Venezuela's interim government granting Washington majority control over more than 65 billion barrels of proven Venezuelan crude reserves, around 21% of the country's total. Acting president Delcy Rodríguez confirmed the deal.

• Friday, August 28th 2026 - 19:35 UTC

  The US waives beef tariffs for Brazil and Paraguay, but not for Argentina and Uruguay

  

  US President Donald Trump signed a proclamation on August 26 temporarily waiving tariffs on imports of up to 300,000 tonnes of lean beef trimmings, a measure that excludes countries already holding their own quotas in the US market, among them Argentina and Uruguay. The main beneficiaries will be Brazil and Paraguay.

• Friday, August 28th 2026 - 14:15 UTC

  Washington negotiates stakes in Venezuelan oil fields with leases of up to a century

  

  The United States government is negotiating with Venezuela's interim administration to acquire stakes in a group of the South American country's oil fields, under arrangements that would include leases of up to a hundred years, the outlets Axios and Bloomberg reported on Thursday citing unnamed senior US officials.

• Thursday, August 27th 2026 - 21:32 UTC

  Specialist outlets estimate GTA VI absenteeism could cost the US a billion dollars

  

  Video game and technology outlets estimate that the launch of Grand Theft Auto VI, scheduled for November 19, could cost the United States economy more than a billion dollars in lost productivity, due to the number of workers expected to skip work to play. The estimate has circulated within the sector's digital ecosystem since last year and does not come from a published study.

• Thursday, August 27th 2026 - 08:20 UTC

  Beijing asks Washington to “overcome obstacles” before Xi's White House visit

  

  Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has urged the United States to “remove interference” and “overcome obstacles” in high-level exchanges between the two countries, during a meeting in Beijing on Wednesday with US Ambassador David Perdue, as part of preparations for President Xi Jinping's state visit to Washington.