International

• Monday, August 10th 2026 - 09:33 UTC

  Bitcoin's Persistent Value as an Inflation Hedge in Mercosur's Stabilizing Economies

  

  Fiscal reforms are reshaping parts of South America right now, and that's forcing a lot of portfolio conversations that wouldn't have made sense two years ago. Digital assets, once treated purely as emergency exits from collapsing currencies, are getting a second look. Not because they've changed. Because the ground underneath them has shifted.

• Saturday, August 8th 2026 - 07:52 UTC

  De la Espriella sworn in before Congress in Cali, delivers first speech to the military

  

  Abelardo de la Espriella took office as president of Colombia in Cali on Friday, the first time a Colombian leader has been sworn in outside Bogotá, and delivered his first speech at an Army battalion rather than before Congress, breaking with the country's institutional tradition.

• Saturday, August 8th 2026 - 07:38 UTC

  Celtic roots of both the Falklands and Malvinas names?

  

  The Irish Times has published a very interesting piece from Tomaí Ó Conghaile following on the fallout from the World Cup, who argues that both the English and Spanish versions of the Falkland-Malvinas Islands names have their roots in Celtic languages.

• Saturday, August 8th 2026 - 07:00 UTC

  China will have the largest embassy in London, the former Royal Mint

  

  The UK High Court on Friday threw out a challenge against UK authorities' decision to permit a new Chinese super embassy in central London. The challenge was brought by a neighborhood group called the Royal Mint Court Residents' Association (RMCRA), which represents families and businesses in roughly 100 properties around the planned embassy site.

• Thursday, August 6th 2026 - 08:18 UTC

  Navitas broadens its US Gulf portfolio with stakes in two oil discoveries, oil industry media

  

  Navitas Petroleum has signed agreements to obtain a 33.33% interest in the Tiberius and Logan oil discoveries in the Gulf of America (Gulf of Mexico) from Occidental and Kosmos Energy, expanding its Gulf of America hydrocarbon portfolio.

• Thursday, August 6th 2026 - 08:00 UTC

  “Self-determination lies with the Falkland Islanders, and sovereignty lies with the UK”

  

  By Simon Walters (*)<br />
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  At the heart of Argentina’s illegitimate claim over the Falkland Islands is a historical falsehood. British sovereignty over the islands dates back to 1765, before the Argentine Republic even existed.

• Thursday, August 6th 2026 - 07:13 UTC

  Royal Navy nuclear deterrence program receives £8bn for the Dreadnought program

  

  More than £8bn is being pumped into the Royal Navy’s next-generation nuclear deterrent submarines in the latest investment in the Dreadnought program. The cash – the fourth phase of production of the biggest submarine construction project in a generation – will carry the program through to key milestones early next decade:

• Thursday, August 6th 2026 - 06:08 UTC

  Miliband meets Marco Rubio in Washington for ‘productive’ talks and ‘to strengthen diplomatic partnership between US and UK’

  

  United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio welcomed U.K. Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband for official bilateral talks at the State Department in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday August 5, 2026.

• Wednesday, August 5th 2026 - 21:44 UTC

  SpaceX rocket stage crashes into the Moon after 18 months adrift

  

  The upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket struck the lunar surface on Wednesday near the Einstein crater, in an unplanned impact that NASA described as safe and posing no risk to Earth or to missions operating on the Moon.

• Wednesday, August 5th 2026 - 08:29 UTC

  PM Burnham hands mayors share of income tax “to make lives better in every postcode”

  

  The Prime Minister Andy Burnham has launched the biggest transfer of power from Westminster in a generation, giving communities greater control over the decisions that shape jobs, transport, housing and public services in their area.