Stories for September 2026

Monday, September 28th 2026 - 07:51 UTC
The Telegraph links the Chagos deal to Argentina's Falklands campaign

An opinion column published on Sunday in the British newspaper The Telegraph argues that the decision to transfer sovereignty over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius served as a signal of weakness that encouraged claims over other British overseas territories, among them the Falklands. The piece, by journalist Daniel Johnson, is an argument of opinion rather than a report of new facts.
Monday, September 28th 2026 - 06:01 UTC
Britain has just received a painful reminder that nobody respects weakness

By Daniel Hannan (*)

As the Chagos humiliation shows, the Foreign Office’s slavish adoration of international courts has got us nowhere. What has all our imagined soft power brought us? For all our performative internationalism, we find ourselves friendless.
Sunday, September 27th 2026 - 12:26 UTC
Brazil reaches the election with its top court under suspicion and the candidates tied

Brazil votes next Sunday in a presidential election that arrives with the Supreme Federal Court mired in its worst institutional crisis since the return to democracy, the right's candidate formally under investigation in the same case, and the two leading contenders tied within the margin of error in every poll.
Saturday, September 26th 2026 - 11:06 UTC
De la Espriella announces the reopening of oil exploration in Colombia, including fracking

Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella announced on Friday that his government will “fully” reopen hydrocarbon exploration and the signing of new contracts, including hydraulic fracturing, during the swearing-in of businessman Joaquín Gutiérrez as president of Ecopetrol, the country's largest company.
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.