International

• Monday, July 7th 2025 - 19:47 UTC

  Caricom Summit underway in Montego Bay

  

  The 49th Regular Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (Caricom) is underway in Montego Bay, Jamaica, from July 6-8. The summit focuses on critical issues for the region, including security, trade, climate change, and economic integration.

• Monday, July 7th 2025 - 09:30 UTC

  IMF and WB “a reversed Marshall Plan” says Lula

  

  Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Sunday criticized the role of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (WB) because they represent “a reverse Marshall Plan, in which emerging and developing economies finance the more developed world.”

• Monday, July 7th 2025 - 08:50 UTC

  Boric and Arce advocate for multilateralism and Global South empowerment

  

  Presidents Gabriel Boric Font of Chile and Bolivia's Luis Arce Catacora advocated for multilateralism, international law, and the strengthening of the Global South during their interventions at the BRICS 2025 summit in Rio de Janeiro.

• Sunday, July 6th 2025 - 11:58 UTC

  Today Tuvalu’s Climate change visas; tomorrow extensive to the World’s?

  

  By Gwynne Dyer - Some big changes arrive with a bang, but usually they sort of sneak in and you barely notice them at first. Last week’s big change saw the creation of the world’s first climate-change visas. It’s a way of giving potential climate refugees some hope and some dignity, and it would certainly be an improvement on the current migration mess.

• Sunday, July 6th 2025 - 04:50 UTC

  Falklands intends to implement the Beneficial Ownership Register by July 2026

  

  Stephen Doughty, Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, which includes Overseas Territories has stated that illicit finance, corruption, and kleptocracy pose a direct threat to the UK’s national security, economic resilience, and the integrity of the global financial system.

• Saturday, July 5th 2025 - 19:21 UTC

  Milei welcomes Modi at Casa Rosada

  

  Argentine President Javier Milei welcomed India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi to discuss trade, investment, energy, critical minerals, defense, aerospace, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, agriculture, and other issues.

• Friday, July 4th 2025 - 23:26 UTC

  Fundraising teen pilot detained in Chilean Antarctica

  

  Ethan Guo, a 19-year-old pilot and social media influencer, has been detained on King George Island, Antarctica, after a failed attempt to complete a solo flight across all seven continents to raise US$1 million for childhood cancer research.

• Friday, July 4th 2025 - 16:45 UTC

  Relief operation of DRC Uruguayan blue helmets underway

  

  Uruguay is carrying out on Friday a troop relief operation for its United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Approximately 200 Uruguayan soldiers from the Uruguay IV Battalion are arriving at Carrasco International Airport at 6.35 am on an Ethiopian Airlines flight from Rwanda. President Yamandú Orsi and Defense Minister Sandra Lazo will welcome them.

• Friday, July 4th 2025 - 05:08 UTC

  Latino Director Felipe Vargas Steps Away from Lionsgate’s Next Film Project

  

  In 2023, it was announced that a new Leprechaun movie was in the works. Felipe Varga had been hired to breathe new life into the franchise. With that said, things look to have changed. There hasn’t been much said about the movie over the last year, but it’s clear why. Vargas has been busy on his most recent movie, Rosario, and is no longer directing the Leprechaun movie for Lionsgate.

• Wednesday, July 2nd 2025 - 23:34 UTC

  Mercosur-EFTA FTA announced in Buenos Aires

  

  The Southern Common Market's (Mercosur) Summit in Buenos Aires kicked off Wednesday with the announcement by Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay of a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) finalized with the European Free Trade Association (EFTA - Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, and Switzerland). The documents are to be signed in the coming months.