International

• Monday, August 17th 2026 - 22:09 UTC

  FAO World Food Prices edged up in April, mainly cereals, vegetable oils and sugar

  

  The benchmark measure of world food commodity prices edged up in July, as recent heatwaves and energy price dynamics pushed up quotations for cereals, vegetable oils and sugar, according to new data released Friday by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

• Saturday, August 15th 2026 - 02:44 UTC

  Cash Still Rules, But the Economy Also Depends on Digital Transactions. Why Is That?

  

  Walk into any major city in the world today, and you will find two parallel realities operating side by side. In one, people hand over physical currency (coins and notes) to pay for coffee, market produce, or a bus fare.

• Wednesday, August 12th 2026 - 06:13 UTC

  Argentina to mark every July 15 with the World Cup win that revived the Falklands dispute

  

  The Argentine Football Association (AFA) has established July 15 as National Football Teams Day, in tribute to the 2-1 win over England in the 2026 World Cup semi-final, the same match after which several players displayed a banner asserting a sovereignty claim over the Falklands that prompted a FIFA disciplinary case.

• Wednesday, August 12th 2026 - 00:16 UTC

  US disables a Panama-flagged container ship off the coast of Pakistan

  

  US forces struck the Panama-flagged container ship Vela Nova in the Gulf of Oman on Tuesday, leaving it unable to steer, after it attempted to head for an Iranian port in violation of the naval blockade imposed by Washington, US Central Command (CENTCOM) confirmed.

• Wednesday, August 12th 2026 - 00:05 UTC

  Colombia asks for supplies but not foreign rescue personnel after the earthquake

  

  Colombia's government has requested international aid in the form of supplies for those affected by Monday's magnitude 7.4 earthquake, but has not called for foreign rescue teams, despite offers from at least six countries and multilateral bodies.

• Tuesday, August 11th 2026 - 09:44 UTC

  Burnham's Labour edges ahead of Reform UK in a YouGov poll for the first time

  

  The Labour Party of British Prime Minister Andy Burnham has moved ahead of Reform UK, the right-wing party led by Nigel Farage, in a voting intention survey by YouGov published on Tuesday by The Times. It is the first time this has happened in that pollster's series since Reform took the lead in early 2025.

• Tuesday, August 11th 2026 - 09:21 UTC

  Syrian court sentences Bashar al-Assad to death in absentia for crimes against humanity

  

  A criminal court in Damascus sentenced former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad to death in absentia on Tuesday for premeditated murder, torture, arbitrary detention and crimes against humanity. Assad was ousted in December 2024 and is living in exile in Moscow. It is the first public sentence handed down against the man who governed Syria for more than two decades.

• Monday, August 10th 2026 - 10:55 UTC

  Reform UK in talks with El Salvador over sending foreign prisoners to Bukele's jails

  

  Britain's Reform UK party, led by Nigel Farage, has opened contacts with the government of El Salvador to transfer foreign prisoners to jails in that country should it win the next United Kingdom general election, which must be held by 2029 at the latest. The report was published on Monday by the newspaper The Sun and has not been confirmed by San Salvador.

• 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.