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Stories for November 3rd 2025

  • Monday, November 3rd 2025 - 20:05 UTC

    US Navy's and Royal Navy begin trials with un-crewed vessels

     Seen from above, the narrow width of the USX-1 Defiant is evident – thanks to the lack of human passageways (Picture: DARPA)

    USX-1 Defiant is a prototype of the US program to develop autonomous vessels with no need for physical crews. She is the first US naval surface vessel ever built to operate without room or provisions for human crew.

  • Monday, November 3rd 2025 - 19:52 UTC

    Discovery Building, a milestone for Rothera Base and BAS in Antarctica

    The Discovery Building at Rothera Research Station, Antarctica. Image credit: BAM

    The 2025/2026 Antarctic season is a landmark for the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and its Antarctic Infrastructure Modernization Project (AIMP), as the new Discovery Building begins to take on its operational role. Specialist teams will be on site from this month to check the building’s critical systems are working as expected and to carefully manage the removal of six older structures, the functions of which are now integrated within the Discovery Building.

  • Monday, November 3rd 2025 - 10:55 UTC

    Maduro's days in power “are numbered,” says Trump

    “We have very secret plans” about Venezuela, Trump argued

    US President Donald Trump suggested in a TV interview on Sunday that Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro's time in power is limited. However, he downplayed the likelihood of the United States' engaging in a war with the South American country. Asked whether the United States would go to war with Venezuela, Trump replied, “I doubt it. I don't think so.”

  • Monday, November 3rd 2025 - 10:21 UTC

    The Guardian highlights the hardships Argentines go through under Milei

    “You’re either poor or rich,” The Guardian highlighted, quoting an interviewee. Photo: Luis Robayo/AFP

    Despite President Javier Milei's success in significantly lowering annual inflation from over 211% in 2023 to 32% by September 2025, a majority of Argentines are struggling as their purchasing power has collapsed under the administration's “chainsaw” austerity program, the London outlet The Guardian noted.

  • Monday, November 3rd 2025 - 10:19 UTC

    Milei picks Santilli as new Interior Minister

    Santilli's choice came hours after a strained dinner between Milei and former President Mauricio Macri

    Argentine President Javier Milei announced Sunday that he would be appointing newly elected Congressman Diego Santilli as his administration's new Interior Minister following the resignation of Lisandro Catalán.

  • Monday, November 3rd 2025 - 10:16 UTC

    School attack in Buenos Aires foiled by FBI tip

    The suspect was active on social media about his intentions against his former high school

    A Neo-Nazi teenager has been arrested in the middle-class Caballito neighborhood in Buenos Aires, where he was planning a school massacre, as the evidence garnered at the scene would corroborate. The suspect was making arrangements to strike his former high school, which were foiled following a tip from the FBI.

  • Monday, November 3rd 2025 - 10:14 UTC

    All eyes on Uruguay's volunteers for euthanasia

    “I don't want to use it yet. I can write, go out when I have a companion, and enjoy a literary workshop. But I know what awaits me, and I am not willing to live through it,” Gelós said

    The cases of Uruguayan nationals Pablo Cánepa, 39, and Beatriz Gelós, 71, have swept under the limelight following the enactment of the so-called Dignified Death Law bill (or Euthanasia Law). They both suffer from conditions recognized as irreversible and have expressed their intention to seek that procedure once it is finally regulated. Their cases were even mentioned in the parliamentary debate leading to the reform.

  • Monday, November 3rd 2025 - 10:08 UTC

    Supermarket blast leaves at least 23 dead in Mexico

    President Claudia Sheinbaum expressed her grief and instructed the Ministry of the Interior to assist the victims

    At least 23 people died and 12 others were injured after an explosion on Saturday at a supermarket in the Mexican city of Hermosillo, the capital of the State of Sonora.

  • Monday, November 3rd 2025 - 10:03 UTC

    BBC says legal weapons from Paraguay end up in Comando Vermelho’s hands

    Other arms suppliers to the CV allegedly include Argentine dealer Diego Dirisio and his wife

    A recent report from the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) found a link between Brazil's infamous Comando Vermelho group's gun supply and Paraguay. Arms legally imported to that country end up in the possession of the outlaw group.

  • Monday, November 3rd 2025 - 08:46 UTC

    Falklands Government and Sure reach VSAT Licensing Agreement

    Sure will launch two unlimited residential broadband packages priced at £50 and £115 a month, exclusive of line rental, for unlimited use

    The Falkland Islands Government (FIG) and Sure South Atlantic (Sure) have reached an agreement to allow Sure to continue to discharge its universal service obligations under its exclusive telecommunications licence, alongside the more permissive VSAT licensing scheme approved by Executive Council in June this year.