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Monday, June 8th 2026 - 09:44 UTC
Sánchez narrowly ahead in Peru runoff quick count; both candidates urge caution

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.
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Monday, June 8th 2026 - 05:58 UTC
Trump interested in buying Chagos Islands with the strategic Diego Garcia air base

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.
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Monday, June 8th 2026 - 05:53 UTC
Falklands, HMS Medway delivered medical support to Tristan da Cunha

HMS Medway, currently South Atlantic patrol and stationed at Mare Harbor in the Falkland Islands successfully concluded an 18day deployment, sailing from the Falkland Islands to Tristan da Cunha and back, delivering critical medical support to a British national and returning safely with the Pathfinders.
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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

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.
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Sunday, June 7th 2026 - 21:24 UTC
Trump says he will urge Netanyahu not to retaliate after Iran's missile attack on Israel

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.
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Sunday, June 7th 2026 - 21:22 UTC
Pope Leo XIV expected to visit Peru in November, including his former diocese of Chiclayo

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.
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Sunday, June 7th 2026 - 21:17 UTC
Trump's 'Shield of the Americas' reshapes Central America's war on drug cartels

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.
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Sunday, June 7th 2026 - 07:56 UTC
Report warns foreign fleets off Argentina catch up to four times the national industry's haul

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.
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Sunday, June 7th 2026 - 03:47 UTC
FAO food commodity prices in May showed increases in cereals, sugar and beef

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).
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Saturday, June 6th 2026 - 12:44 UTC
Royal Navy will receive all eight Type 26 frigates as planned, Minister Pollard confirms

The Royal Navy will receive all eight of its Type 26 frigates as planned, despite speculation over build slots being offered to the Norwegian navy, Defense Minister Luke Pollard has confirmed.
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