Stories for 2026

Sunday, April 12th 2026 - 23:07 UTC
Hungary: Magyar's victory shakes European politics, dealing blow to Trump and Moscow

Opposition leader Péter Magyar won Hungary's parliamentary elections on Sunday in a landslide that ends Viktor Orbán's 16 consecutive years in power. With 97% of votes counted, Magyar's Tisza party secured 138 of 199 parliamentary seats — a two-thirds supermajority granting the power to amend the constitution. Orbán's Fidesz won 55 seats, while the far-right Our Homeland party took six.
Sunday, April 12th 2026 - 13:30 UTC
Trump escalates Gulf crisis with order for total blockade of Strait of Hormuz

US President Donald Trump announced on Sunday that the Navy would immediately begin blocking all maritime traffic attempting to enter or leave the Strait of Hormuz, and ordered the interception on the high seas of any vessel that has paid a toll to Iran.
Sunday, April 12th 2026 - 13:18 UTC
Adorni scandal drags down Milei's poll numbers as courts probe his assets

Argentine Cabinet Chief Manuel Adorni has been formally charged with alleged illicit enrichment in a case investigating a reported 500% increase in his declared assets over a single fiscal period, according to a complaint filed by lawmaker Marcela Pagano. On April 9, federal judge Ariel Lijo ordered the lifting of banking and tax secrecy for Adorni and his wife, Bettina Angeletti, at the request of prosecutor Gerardo Pollicita.
Saturday, April 11th 2026 - 06:34 UTC
Falklands Government denies MV Bandero access over “questionable actions” at sea

The Falkland Islands government has banned the MV Bandero, a Captain Paul Watson Foundation vessel, from entering its territorial waters following the ship's collision with a Norwegian industrial krill trawler in Antarctic waters on March 31. The order, signed on April 9 by the Acting Governor, took effect immediately.
Saturday, April 11th 2026 - 04:49 UTC
Argentine court orders environmental studies over HIF plant in Uruguay

A federal court in the Argentine city of Concepción del Uruguay on Friday ordered a series of environmental studies and requested information from Uruguayan agencies after accepting a lawsuit against the Uruguayan state and multinational HIF Global over a green hydrogen plant project in Paysandú, in a new source of bilateral tension that echoes the Botnia pulp mill conflict of the early 2000s.
Saturday, April 11th 2026 - 04:44 UTC
Orion capsule splashes down in Pacific, completing Artemis II, first crewed Moon flight in over 50 years

NASA's Orion capsule splashed down at 8:07 p.m. ET on Friday (00:07 GMT Saturday) in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego, California, completing the Artemis II mission, the first crewed flight to the Moon since Apollo 17 in December 1972.
Friday, April 10th 2026 - 17:54 UTC
Argentina permanently revokes licenses of laboratories implicated in contaminated fentanyl case

Argentina's National Administration of Drugs, Foods and Medical Devices (Anmat) permanently revoked the operating licenses of laboratories HLB Pharma and Laboratorios Ramallo, linked to the production of contaminated fentanyl that caused the deaths of at least 111 people between late 2024 and the first half of 2025, in one of the worst health tragedies in the country's recent history.
Friday, April 10th 2026 - 15:26 UTC
Brazil's inflation rises to 4.14% in March driven by higher fuel and food costs

Annual inflation in Brazil accelerated to 4.14% in March, pushed higher by rising fuel and food prices, the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) reported on Friday. The figure reverses the slowdown recorded in February, when the index had eased to 3.81%.
Friday, April 10th 2026 - 02:18 UTC
Venezuelan parliament passes law opening mining sector to private capital amid rapprochement with US

Venezuela's National Assembly unanimously approved on Thursday a new 131-article Organic Mining Law that opens the door to private and foreign investment in the mining sector, on a day also marked by police repression of thousands of workers who marched to demand an increase in the minimum wage, frozen since 2022.
Friday, April 10th 2026 - 02:09 UTC
Tourism accounted for nearly half of Uruguay's GDP growth in 2025, generating $2.04 billion in exports

Tourism accounted for nearly half of Uruguay's gross domestic product growth in 2025 and represented 6.2% of the country's economic activity, according to the first monitor produced by the Uruguayan Chamber of Tourism together with the Center for the Study of Economic and Social Reality (Ceres), presented on Thursday in Punta del Este.