Stories for September 25th 2026

Friday, September 25th 2026 - 23:26 UTC
Falklands Assembly responds to Argentina's campaign: “This Assembly remains calm”

The chair of the Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly, Jack Ford, said on Thursday during a sitting of the body that there is “nothing new” in the claims made this week, and that the institution “remains calm” and steadfast in defending the right of the archipelago's residents to determine their own future.
Friday, September 25th 2026 - 21:35 UTC
The Falklands economic development agency appoints Josh Smith as managing director

The Falkland Islands Development Corporation, the archipelago's economic development agency, announced on Friday the appointment of Josh Smith as its new managing director, subject to final relocation arrangements. He will succeed Zachary Franklin, who will conclude his tenure in December.
Friday, September 25th 2026 - 21:28 UTC
Milei and Netanyahu discussed the Falklands in his only bilateral in New York

Argentine President Javier Milei met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for about twenty minutes on Thursday at United Nations headquarters, in what was his only bilateral meeting with a head of state or government during his trip to New York. Foreign Minister Pablo Quirno confirmed they discussed the Falklands.
Friday, September 25th 2026 - 10:41 UTC
“The UN has more reason to exist every day”, Uruguay's president said two days after Milei

Uruguayan President Yamandú Orsi defended the United Nations' relevance and condemned the economic embargo on Cuba before the General Assembly on Thursday, in an address of just under twenty minutes that contrasted with that of his Argentine counterpart, Javier Milei, two days earlier from the same podium.
Friday, September 25th 2026 - 10:26 UTC
Poverty in Argentina rises to 32.3%, ending two years of decline

Poverty in Argentina reached 32.3% of people in the first half of 2026, an increase of 4.1 percentage points on the second half of 2025, the National Institute of Statistics and Census reported on Thursday. The figure interrupts the downward path the indicator had followed since mid-2024. Extreme poverty rose 1.2 points, from 6.3% to 7.5%.
Friday, September 25th 2026 - 09:37 UTC
Trump and Xi end the state visit with the trade truce extended and no substantive deals

Chinese President Xi Jinping's state visit to Washington ended on Thursday with a two-month extension of the bilateral trade truce, agreed before the meeting itself, and no progress on the central issues dividing the two powers: tariffs, rare earths, agricultural purchases, Taiwan and export restrictions on advanced chips.
Friday, September 25th 2026 - 00:10 UTC
Nine days from the vote, neither Brazilian front-runner comes close to 50%

Neither of Brazil's two leading presidential candidates is approaching the threshold needed to win outright on October 4, according to the latest Datafolha poll, which puts President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on 40% of voting intentions and Senator Flávio Bolsonaro on 36%.
Friday, September 25th 2026 - 00:08 UTC
Netanyahu rejects genocide allegations before an assembly emptied by dozens of delegations

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday called genocide allegations against his country over the war in Gaza “the biggest lie of the century”, in an address to the United Nations General Assembly that dozens of delegations left before he began speaking.