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Montevideo, November 9th 2026 - 14:25 UTC

Stories for October 20th 2026

  • Tuesday, October 20th 2026 - 16:10 UTC

    A Russian satellite shadows a US one for days in an unprecedented manoeuvre

    The Russian craft carried out “a series of deliberate manoeuvres” around Iceye-X36 between October 15 and 19, alternating between positions ahead of and behind it

    A Russian military satellite, Kosmos-2612, manoeuvred for several days at close range to a commercial satellite operated by a US company that supplies images to Ukraine, coming within less than five kilometres, in what space-tracking specialists describe as an unprecedented approach between active satellites belonging to different owners.

  • Tuesday, October 20th 2026 - 15:29 UTC

    Milei calls Lula a “leftist thief” and says he hopes he will not “steal” Brazil’s election

    It is not the first time Milei has called Lula a “thief”. On October 7 he posted an image of the Brazilian president with that word on Instagram

    Argentine President Javier Milei attacked his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva again on Tuesday, accusing him of a “dirty campaign” and saying he hoped Lula would not try to “steal” Sunday’s presidential runoff, in which he faces Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, whom Milei has publicly backed.

  • Tuesday, October 20th 2026 - 10:09 UTC

    Meta races the clock to prove to Brazil’s electoral court it treats Lula and Bolsonaro equally

    The company unilaterally extended the 72-hour deadline it had been given to five days, cited “technical difficulties”, submitted untranslated reports in English and provided out-of-context documents

    The 24-hour deadline given by Brazil’s Superior Electoral Court to Meta to show that its algorithms and artificial intelligence treat President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Senator Flávio Bolsonaro equally expires on Tuesday, five days before the runoff. If the owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp fails to show compliance, the daily fine will double from 500,000 to one million reais.

  • Tuesday, October 20th 2026 - 09:52 UTC

    Argentina awaits the Supreme Court after the YPF case is closed at first instance

    Preska’s judgment, which exceeded US$18 billion with interest, was the largest ever imposed on a state by a US court

    New York federal judge Loretta Preska has vacated her 2023 judgment ordering Argentina to pay more than US$16 billion over the expropriation of oil company YPF and formally closed the case at first instance. Its future now depends on whether the US Supreme Court agrees to review it, as litigation funder Burford Capital requested in early October.

  • Tuesday, October 20th 2026 - 09:47 UTC

    Milei arrives in Madrid mid-campaign and will meet Ayuso but not Sánchez

    Milei has clashed sharply with Sánchez since 2024 and has made his alliances with conservative leaders a hallmark of his foreign policy

    Argentine President Javier Milei flew to Madrid on Monday night on his third visit of the year to Spain and his seventh since taking office, in the middle of the campaign for the snap general election on November 29. His agenda includes a meeting with the president of the Madrid regional government, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, of the People’s Party, but, as on previous visits, no meeting with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez.

  • Tuesday, October 20th 2026 - 08:01 UTC

    Alberta overwhelmingly rejects starting the path to an independence referendum from Canada

    The question did not ask directly about independence, but whether the provincial government should begin “the legal process required under the Canadian Constitution”

    Voters in the Canadian province of Alberta on Monday overwhelmingly rejected having their government begin the process of calling a binding referendum on independence from Canada, according to preliminary results. With more than half the votes counted, around 76% chose for Alberta to remain a Canadian province, against about 24% who backed starting down the path to separation. Official results will be known on Thursday.

  • Tuesday, October 20th 2026 - 00:44 UTC

    The Role of Map Statistics in CS2 Match Analysis | Guide

    Predicting matches before a competition in Counter-Strike 2 requires a very fine and nuanced analysis. Knowledge of the teams competing, their playing style (team habits/teams preferences), their comfort level or preference for maps, and their competitive history is required for both analysts and the Tactical Staff. Analysis will look at current competitive data for each team in the current competitive landscape to determine the strengths and weaknesses of team compositions for future competition.

  • Tuesday, October 20th 2026 - 00:18 UTC

    Stablecoins, Solana and Ethereum: Which Blockchains Are Winning in South America?

    Ask who is winning crypto in South America, and many people will say bitcoin. Brazil's tax data says otherwise. In 2025, stablecoins made up 80.2% of all crypto volume declared there, and USDT alone was 72%.