MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for September 24th 2026
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Thursday, September 24th 2026 - 23:47 UTC
Punta Arenas/Falklands maritime links are based on history, economics and geography
The announced maritime and trade link between Punta Arenas in Chile and the Falkland Islands has been strongly argued and supported by the main newspaper from the Chilean austral city on the Magellan Strait and capital of the Magallanes Region.
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Thursday, September 24th 2026 - 10:59 UTC
UK replies to Milei: “not the behaviour we expect of a democracy”
The United Kingdom has asked for a written statement to be placed in the official record of the UN General Assembly in response to Argentine President Javier Milei's address, saying Buenos Aires' conduct over the Falklands “is wholly incompatible with the principles established in the United Nations Charter and is not the behaviour we expect of a democracy”.
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Thursday, September 24th 2026 - 10:47 UTC
Delcy Rodríguez tells the UN there will be elections in Venezuela, without setting a date
Venezuela's acting president, Delcy Rodríguez, announced on Wednesday before the United Nations General Assembly that her country will hold elections, without specifying when, and thanked US President Donald Trump for “his willingness to return to the path of diplomatic relations and cooperation”.
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Thursday, September 24th 2026 - 00:11 UTC
Machado's team says three attempts to return to Venezuela failed in 24 hours
The circle around Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado said this week that three attempts to return to Venezuela from Panama, by sea and by air, were thwarted within roughly 24 hours. One was recorded in a flight manifest placing her among the passengers of an aircraft that never took off; the document does not establish why.
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Thursday, September 24th 2026 - 00:01 UTC
The Shift from Display Ads to Affiliate Revenue in Sports Media
For most of the 2010s, sports websites made money in the same way as everyone else online. They put banners on the page, sold ad space, and got paid when people saw the ads. If there was traffic, the bills got paid. What readers did after they got to the page didn't matter.
