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Montevideo, October 12th 2026 - 10:09 UTC

Stories for 2026

  • Monday, June 8th 2026 - 23:22 UTC

    Falklands: how important it is for UK electorate to have the Islands remaining British

    James Cartlidge, the shadow defense secretary, said the sovereignty of the Falklands was “not up for negotiation”.

    This is a special week for the Falkland Islands and its people, Sunday is 14th June, the 44th anniversary of the Liberation of the Islands from the invading Argentine troops, which on that day definitively signed their surrender to the British Task Force sent to the South Atlantic to liberate the forcibly submitted Falklands people after 74 days.

  • Monday, June 8th 2026 - 23:01 UTC

    Trump interested in buying Chagos Islands with the strategic Diego Garcia air base

    Previous legislation to hand the islands to Mauritius was shelved in April after the US removed its support of the deal.

    The US president Donald Trump is considering a plan to buy the Chagos Islands from Mauritius amid stalled plans from the UK to cede sovereignty of the territory, the Telegraph reported over the weekend.

  • Monday, June 8th 2026 - 23:00 UTC

    Sánchez narrowly ahead in Peru runoff quick count; both candidates urge caution

    The result shifted through the night. Exit polls released as voting closed had initially placed Fujimori first, but the quick count reversed the trend

    Peru's presidential runoff ended without a clear winner after an extremely close vote. A quick count by the pollster Ipsos, carried out with the NGO Transparencia on a representative sample of tally sheets, gave a slight edge to leftist candidate Roberto Sánchez, with 50.3% of the vote, against 49.7% for conservative Keiko Fujimori. The gap, within the margin of error, amounts to a technical tie that prolongs the uncertainty in a country that has had nine presidents in a decade.

  • Monday, June 8th 2026 - 21:13 UTC

    The Single Number That Separates Online Roulette Variants

    Online roulette looks like one game, but it is really a family of close cousins that pay the same odds while offering very different value. The gap between them comes down to how many zeros sit on the wheel.

  • Sunday, June 7th 2026 - 23:52 UTC

    Argentina seeks a trade pact that would link it with the UK for the first time since 1982

    “I handed over the formal letter of intent to join one of the broadest, most modern and dynamic trade agreements in the world,” Quirno said

    Argentina has applied to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), a step that, if completed, would place it for the first time since the 1982 Falklands War in a trade agreement that also includes the United Kingdom. Foreign Minister Pablo Quirno announced the decision during a tour of Europe and handed the formal letter of intent to New Zealand, the treaty's depositary.

  • Sunday, June 7th 2026 - 21:24 UTC

    Trump says he will urge Netanyahu not to retaliate after Iran's missile attack on Israel

    “I am going to call Bibi right now and tell him not to retaliate. Each of them had their moment: Israel had its strike, and Iran had its strike. We don't need another one,” Trump said

    US President Donald Trump said he would call Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to ask him not to respond to the missiles Iran fired at Israel on Sunday, in an effort to prevent a new escalation and salvage a deal with Tehran that he considers “very close.” It was Iran's first direct attack since the ceasefire reached on April 8.

  • Sunday, June 7th 2026 - 21:22 UTC

    Pope Leo XIV expected to visit Peru in November, including his former diocese of Chiclayo

    Leo XIV, the American-born Robert Prevost, has a close relationship with Peru, where he is known as “the Peruvian pope.”

    Pope Leo XIV is expected to visit Peru in November, returning to the country where he was bishop of Chiclayo, carried out much of his pastoral life and obtained citizenship. Interim President José María Balcázar said on Sunday that the trip is “programmed from November 10,” in brief remarks after voting in the presidential runoff.

  • Sunday, June 7th 2026 - 21:17 UTC

    Trump's 'Shield of the Americas' reshapes Central America's war on drug cartels

    Governments aligned with the United States are adopting tough-on-crime rhetoric and requesting technical assistance

    Donald Trump's return to the White House and the launch of the “Shield of the Americas” —a militarized anti-narcotics coalition that excludes Mexico and that Washington unveiled in Miami in March— have reshaped the security landscape in Central America. The pressure, intensified after the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in January, has pushed trafficking routes into international waters and forced uneven responses across the isthmus, according to a report by EL PAÍS.

  • Sunday, June 7th 2026 - 07:56 UTC

    Report warns foreign fleets off Argentina catch up to four times the national industry's haul

    The foundation warned that, if the current level of exploitation continues, resources that are strategic for the economy could be compromised

    Foreign fleets operating along the outer edge of Argentina's Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) —the so-called Mile 201— extract up to four times the volume caught by the entire national fishing industry, according to a report by the Latin American Foundation for Fisheries Sustainability (FULASP) released on the International Day for the Fight against Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing. The organization called the activity one of the main threats to the fishery resources of the South-West Atlantic.

  • Sunday, June 7th 2026 - 03:47 UTC

    FAO food commodity prices in May showed increases in cereals, sugar and beef

    World wheat prices rose 3.4 percent on May and 7.8 percent from their year-earlier level, supported by smaller expected harvests in major exporters, such as US

    The benchmark measure for world food commodity prices remained broadly stable in May, as declines in vegetable oil quotations offset increases in those for cereals and sugar, according to new data released by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).