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Montevideo, September 12th 2026 - 23:37 UTC

Stories for August 2026

  • Friday, August 21st 2026 - 05:20 UTC

    US gross national debt passes 40 trillion dollars for the first time

    The increase is not the work of a single administration. It grew sharply under Joe Biden, with the spending programmes deployed during the pandemic, and has accelerated since Donald Trump's return

    The gross public debt of the United States reached 40.047 trillion dollars on Tuesday, according to data released by the Treasury Department. It is the first time the figure has crossed that threshold, and it has arrived earlier than expected: the Congressional Budget Office had projected 39.4 trillion by the end of fiscal 2026 and placed the jump to 40 trillion in 2027.

  • Friday, August 21st 2026 - 00:15 UTC

    Which Clubs Won the Summer 2026 Transfer Window?

    The summer window isn't decided by who makes the biggest signing announcement. It comes down to whether a club fixes real weaknesses, gives the manager players he can actually use, and avoids stacking one position while ignoring another. By that measure, Chelsea, Tottenham, Real Madrid, AC Milan, and Manchester City have done the most coherent work so far as of August 6, 2026, even though the Premier League window doesn't close until September 1. It's still too early for a final judgment.

  • Thursday, August 20th 2026 - 08:13 UTC

    A judge demands urgent reports from Argentina's government on the fate of road funds

    Presidential spokesman Adrián Ravier on Tuesday denied at the Casa Rosada that any misuse of funds had occurred

    Federal judge Ernesto Kreplak, sitting in La Plata, this week admitted a class action and requested urgent reports from the Ministry of Economy, the National Roads Directorate and Banco Nación on the use of resources from the Integrated Road System (SisVial), a trust fund financed by the tax on liquid fuels whose legal purpose is the construction and maintenance of national highways.

  • Thursday, August 20th 2026 - 08:06 UTC

    Harry and Meghan will move to the UK without resuming official royal duties

    According to the same sources, Meghan will continue running her As Ever company from the United Kingdom

    The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, will settle in the United Kingdom from this autumn, though they will not resume their roles as working members of the royal family, British media reported on Wednesday. The story was broken by The Telegraph and corroborated to the Associated Press by a person close to the couple who was not authorised to speak publicly. There has been no official statement from the palace or the Sussexes.

  • Wednesday, August 19th 2026 - 21:50 UTC

    A critical report says Argentina's investment regime concentrated capital in mining and oil

    In February, a decree brought hydrocarbon exploration and production projects into the regime, extended the application deadline to July 2027 and eased conditions for expanding admitted projects

    Argentina's Large Investment Incentive Regime (RIGI), created in 2024, “consolidated a strongly extractive profile and did not stimulate new sectors,” according to a report released on Wednesday by the RIGI Observatory, a coalition of civil society organisations and academic centres that examines the scheme from a critical standpoint.

  • Wednesday, August 19th 2026 - 21:47 UTC

    A personalized mRNA therapy passes a phase 3 melanoma trial for the first time

    Despite the vaccine label used in much of the coverage, this is not a preventive measure but a treatment

    Pharmaceutical companies Merck, known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, and Moderna announced on Wednesday that their individualized neoantigen therapy, intismeran autogene, met its endpoints in a phase 3 trial in melanoma patients. It is the first positive result at that stage for an mRNA-based cancer treatment.

  • Wednesday, August 19th 2026 - 10:01 UTC

    Falklands consolidates the future of its economy in the fishing and hydrocarbons industries

    In late 2025 Fortuna Ltd acquired Ocean Fish Group, a fishing and processing company based in Cornwall, England.

    The Falklands Planning and Building Committee has approved two projects tied to the sectors that underpin the Islands' economy: fishing and hydrocarbons.

  • Wednesday, August 19th 2026 - 09:52 UTC

    An Argentine consultant who advised Milei's campaign detained in Bolivia after a shooting

    The 33-year-old lawyer underwent surgery and survived; none of the rounds struck vital organs. The case is being investigated as attempted femicide

    Bolivian police detained Argentine political consultant Fernando Cerimedo in the early hours of Tuesday at Viru Viru international airport in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, hours after his former partner, Bolivian lawyer Nadia Beller, was shot three times outside a hotel in the city. Cerimedo has not been formally charged and his involvement in the attack, which remains under investigation, has not been established.

  • Wednesday, August 19th 2026 - 08:45 UTC

    Australia launches program to vaccinate colonies of little penguins against avian influenza

    Operations will be conducted at night when the penguins return from the sea and are directed to a special area where they will receive the first dose

    According to ABC News Australia wildlife conservation agencies in the state of Victoria have launched a program to vaccinate little penguins against the H5 strain of avian influenza. Over the next few weeks, experts plan to capture and vaccinate more than 5,000 birds in colonies on Philip Island and St. Kilda.

  • Tuesday, August 18th 2026 - 22:06 UTC

    Trump posts a map designating the Strait of Hormuz as “new US territory”

    US President Donald Trump on Tuesday posted an image on his Truth Social platform showing a map of the Strait of Hormuz circled and captioned “NEW U.S. Territory,” above a band in the colours of the American flag. The post carried no accompanying text.