Stories for 2026

Wednesday, October 21st 2026 - 13:01 UTC
The area of Antarctic ozone hole during September reached 15 million km2, says Copernicus

The Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) (*) has found that the 2026 Antarctic ozone hole reached a significant size threshold slightly earlier than average, aligned with 2025. It has also stayed ahead of average, unlike the previous year.
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Wednesday, October 21st 2026 - 10:15 UTC
Falklands: UK Statement at the UN Fourth Committee on Decolonization

Statement by Ambassador Kate Foster, UK Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN, at the UN’s Special Political and Decolonization Fourth Committee. “The United Kingdom has no doubt about its sovereignty over both the Falkland Islands, and South Georgia, and the South Sandwich Islands, and their surrounding maritime areas”.
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Wednesday, October 21st 2026 - 01:46 UTC
Argentina and the UK to face off in Hamburg on November 10 over Falklands oil

The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea will hold hearings on November 10 and 11 on Argentina’s request for an order requiring the United Kingdom to halt the Sea Lion oil project north of the Falklands. The dates were set by the tribunal’s president, Judge Maurice K. Kamga, in an order dated October 20.
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Wednesday, October 21st 2026 - 00:30 UTC
Statistics Versus Instinct: How to Think Clearly About Online Sports Predictions

Sport invites confident storytelling. A famous team is 'due a win', an explosive batter is 'in form', and a losing streak supposedly cannot continue.
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Tuesday, October 20th 2026 - 16:10 UTC
A Russian satellite shadows a US one for days in an unprecedented manoeuvre

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.
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Tuesday, October 20th 2026 - 15:29 UTC
Milei calls Lula a “leftist thief” and says he hopes he will not “steal” Brazil’s election

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.
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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 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.
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Tuesday, October 20th 2026 - 09:52 UTC
Argentina awaits the Supreme Court after the YPF case is closed at first instance

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.
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Tuesday, October 20th 2026 - 09:47 UTC
Milei arrives in Madrid mid-campaign and will meet Ayuso but not Sánchez

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.
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Tuesday, October 20th 2026 - 08:01 UTC
Alberta overwhelmingly rejects starting the path to an independence referendum from Canada

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.
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