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Stories for August 24th 2026

  • Monday, August 24th 2026 - 21:55 UTC

    The Pan-American Congress closes with a call for more equal north-south dialogue

    “It is necessary to reframe the dialogue between the north and south of the Americas in more equal terms,” said the meeting's coordinator, David Adler, at the closing session held at the Teatro Solís

    The third Pan-American Congress concluded on Sunday in Montevideo with a call to reframe relations between the north and south of the Americas on more equal terms. The forum, which brought together some 150 lawmakers, governors and former heads of state from fifteen countries, will hold its next edition in Brazil in 2027.

  • Monday, August 24th 2026 - 21:44 UTC

    Man detained in Buenos Aires after driving a stolen bus, saying it was his dream

    The situation came to light when the bus scraped another vehicle belonging to the same company

    A man was detained on Sunday in the western part of the Buenos Aires metropolitan area after driving a city bus for several kilometres, having taken it without authorisation from a depot, following the line's regular route and picking up passengers at stops.

  • Monday, August 24th 2026 - 21:37 UTC

    Colombia orders deportation of irregular migrants after a decade as the main host country

    “The order to Migration is clear: first those committing crimes, second those who have not regularised their status, who in due course will have to be deported,” he said

    Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella has ordered coordinated operations between the migration authority and the police to begin this week to identify and deport foreigners without regular migration status, marking a shift from the policy the country has maintained for more than a decade as the main destination for Venezuelan migration.

  • Monday, August 24th 2026 - 21:26 UTC

    Milei links Lula to the case of the Argentine former adviser detained in Bolivia

    The remarks come during the worst diplomatic crisis between the two countries since the return to democracy

    Argentine President Javier Milei has attributed the criminal case against his former adviser Fernando Cerimedo, detained in Bolivia over an attempted femicide, to a regional plot in which he included Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, former Bolivian president Evo Morales and Argentine lawmaker Marcela Pagano. He offered no evidence to support the claim.

  • Monday, August 24th 2026 - 21:08 UTC

    Some 25,000 people are seeking housing in Cali two weeks after Colombia's earthquake

    Among those seeking accommodation, the prevailing perception is of a generalised rise in prices

    The municipal survey in Cali, Colombia's third city with more than two million inhabitants, now covers 10,000 families affected by the magnitude 7.4 earthquake of August 10 and estimates around 25,000 people have been left without adequate housing. Many have spent recent days in shelters or with relatives while searching for a rental, in a market strained by the sudden loss of supply.

  • Monday, August 24th 2026 - 07:44 UTC

    Unemployment displaces inflation as Argentines' main concern

    Fear of job loss extends into households: 64% said they were concerned a member of their family could lose their job in the coming months

    Unemployment has become the leading problem Argentines want the government to solve, well ahead of inflation, according to the economic expectations report by the polling firm Opina Argentina released over the weekend. Thirty-six percent of respondents placed it first, followed by corruption on 32%, while inflation fell to 11% and insecurity to 9%.

  • Monday, August 24th 2026 - 07:32 UTC

    Almost half the minors recruited by armed groups in 2025 were approached via social media

    The 124-page document, titled “I Thought I Would Never See My Mother Again,” draws on 184 interviews with officials, humanitarian workers, indigenous and community leaders and child protection staff

    Some 44% of children and adolescents recruited by armed groups in Colombia during 2025 were approached through social media or platforms such as TikTok and Facebook, according to data from the Special Jurisdiction for Peace cited in a Human Rights Watch report published on Monday.

  • Monday, August 24th 2026 - 07:28 UTC

    Burnham picks Kyiv for his first foreign trip as British prime minister

    Burnham announced that his government had authorised defence firm MBDA to declassify information on British-made components of the long-range SCALP missile

    British Prime Minister Andy Burnham arrived in Kyiv on Monday on his first trip abroad since taking office in July, coinciding with the 35th anniversary of Ukraine's independence. He met Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha and is due to meet President Volodymyr Zelensky and chair his first meeting of the so-called coalition of the willing, set up by London and Paris under his predecessor, Keir Starmer.

  • Monday, August 24th 2026 - 06:53 UTC

    Two newly detained men testify in the case over the shooting of the Bolivian lawyer

    Beller was shot three times on August 10 outside a hotel in Santa Cruz and spent five days in hospital

    Two men held as part of the investigation into the shooting of Bolivian lawyer Nadia Beller gave statements to prosecutors in Santa Cruz de la Sierra on Sunday. One is accused of supplying the weapon used in the ambush; the other, a Colombian national identified as a possible gunman, turned himself in after learning he was being sought.

  • Monday, August 24th 2026 - 06:22 UTC

    Argentina retires the jets that sank two British ships in the 1982 war

    The retirement forms part of the Plan Dédalo, a five-year restructuring of Naval Aviation drawn up from a study begun in 2025 and approved by the Navy's General Staff

    Argentina's Navy has announced the definitive retirement of its Super Étendard strike aircraft, the French-built jets that attacked the British fleet with Exocet missiles during the 1982 Falklands war. The announcement was made on August 20 by the commander of Naval Aviation, Rear Admiral Román Enrique Olivero, at a ceremony at Punta Indio Naval Air Base. The withdrawal will take place this year, on a date yet to be set.

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