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Stories for May 26th 2026

  • Tuesday, May 26th 2026 - 23:20 UTC

    Legislator Goss takes Falklands' voice to the UN: “We have nothing to hide”

    Goss, a sixth-generation Islander whose ancestor arrived at Port Louis from Stoke-on-Trent in 1841, intervened without political or diplomatic career credentials

    The Member of the Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly Michael Goss on Tuesday presented the archipelago's position before the Regional Seminar of the United Nations Special Committee on Decolonisation, known as the Committee of 24, held in Managua, Nicaragua. In his address, Goss defended the right to self-determination of the inhabitants of the archipelago, reiterated the Legislative Assembly's invitation for the body to send a visiting mission to the Islands, and questioned Argentina's failure to comply with the bilateral cooperation package agreed with the United Kingdom in September 2024.

  • Tuesday, May 26th 2026 - 23:13 UTC

    Uruguay signs memorandum with United Kingdom on aerospace, infrastructure, and digital innovation

    “This agreement is in line with the strategic objectives set out by President Yamandú Orsi, focused on commercial openness and mutual cooperation,” Oddone (center) said

    The Uruguayan government on Monday signed a memorandum of understanding with the United Kingdom to deepen bilateral dialogue and advance cooperation in the aerospace, infrastructure, and digital innovation sectors, in a new step in the rapprochement between the two countries initiated with the visit of Economy and Finance Minister Gabriel Oddone to London in February. The agreement, valid for at least the next four years, was signed between the Uruguayan Ministry of Economy and Finance and the British Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office.

  • Tuesday, May 26th 2026 - 14:21 UTC

    Leo XIV calls for “disarming” artificial intelligence in first encyclical, links it to historical slavery

    He condemned the development of autonomous weapons and the growing delegation of human control over arms, arguing that it reduces the possibilities of qualifying a war as “just”

    Pope Leo XIV on Monday published the first major doctrinal document of his pontificate, an encyclical titled Magnifica Humanitas in which he calls for “disarming” artificial intelligence, warns of its risks to humanity, and delivers one of the most complete and firm apologies from the Vatican for the Catholic Church's historical role in slavery. “The word is strong, I know, but it has been chosen deliberately because this moment demands words capable of capturing attention,” the pontiff said during the presentation of the text at the Vatican, as reported by the BBC.

  • Tuesday, May 26th 2026 - 14:08 UTC

    María Corina Machado closes Panama visit with tribute to Venezuelans who crossed the Darién

    “More than 500,000 Venezuelans have crossed the Darién in search of freedom. Many remained on the way,” Machado said during her speech to the plenary of the Panamanian Parliament

    Venezuelan opposition leader and 2025 Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado on Monday closed her visit to Panama with a tribute to the more than half a million Venezuelan migrants who over the past decade crossed the Darién jungle on their way to North America, in a speech before the National Assembly of Panama and during the presentation of the key to Panama City by the municipal authorities. The visit was also marked by the confirmation of her presidential candidacy as part of the democratic transition plan set out by the United States following the capture of former president Nicolás Maduro on 3 January.

  • Tuesday, May 26th 2026 - 08:29 UTC

    “I can take him as a slave”: Argentine tourist arrested in Brazil over messages about 7-year-old

    Passengers and train security personnel held the suspect in a compartment until the arrival of the Minas Gerais Military Police

    A 63-year-old Argentine tourist, identified as Eduardo Ignacio, was arrested on Sunday in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais on racial discrimination charges after photographing and filming a 7-year-old Black boy aboard a tourist train, and sharing the images in a messaging group with racist comments that included the phrase: “I can take him as a slave.” The case, recorded on the steam train that connects the municipality of São João del-Rei with the historic city of the same name, raises to three the racism episodes involving South American tourists in Brazil over the past five months.

  • Tuesday, May 26th 2026 - 08:14 UTC

    United Kingdom records hottest May since 1922 with overnight temperature record

    The United Kingdom registered on Tuesday its warmest dawn ever recorded for a May month, with a minimum temperature of 21.3 degrees Celsius in south London, according to the British Meteorological Office, known as the Met. The reading constitutes what meteorologists call a “tropical night,” a category reserved for periods in which the overnight temperature does not fall below 20 degrees, an unusual phenomenon for this time of year in the British Isles.