International

• Wednesday, July 22nd 2026 - 22:13 UTC

  A young Falkland Islander will represent the islands at the Commonwealth Youth Parliament in Sydney

  

  The Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly announced that Jessica Lee will represent the territory at the Commonwealth Youth Parliament, to be held from July 26 to 31 in Sydney, hosted by the Parliament of New South Wales, Australia.

• Wednesday, July 22nd 2026 - 09:26 UTC

  Burnham’s Britain: what kind of country has UK’s new prime minister inherited?

  

  By Ben Wellings, Associate Professor in Politics and International Relations, Monash University - When Andy Burnham was handed the keys to 10 Downing Street on Monday, the United Kingdom will have its seventh prime minister in the ten years since it voted to leave the European Union. It begs the question: what is it about the UK that makes governing it so difficult at this point in time?

• Wednesday, July 22nd 2026 - 09:15 UTC

  PM Burnham first day in office “welcomed” by Russian navy live fire gunnery in the Channel south of Plymouth

  

  In what appears to have been a calculated show of military presence close to the UK, the Russian Navy marked the first full day of Andy Burnham’s premiership by conducting a live-fire gunnery exercise in the English Channel while under close surveillance from the Royal Navy.

• Wednesday, July 22nd 2026 - 09:01 UTC

  Chancellor Healey pledges “UK will meet defense commitments to our allies”

  

  Former British Defence Secretary John Healey, who resigned under Sir Keir Starmer in a row over military funding, is now in charge at the Treasury. Prime Minister Andy Burnham appointed him as Chancellor in a surprise move as he named his new top team.

• Wednesday, July 22nd 2026 - 07:18 UTC

  US readies tariffs on some 60 economies over forced labor, with Argentina among them

  

  US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said his government will announce new tariffs on some 60 economies in the coming days for failing to enforce bans on the import of goods produced with forced labor. “The US has laws to prohibit trading goods with forced labor. Other countries, most of them, don't have a law, and those that do really don't enforce it,” he said on Tuesday in an interview with CNBC.

• Wednesday, July 22nd 2026 - 00:37 UTC

  The NFL Returns to Brazil for a Third Straight Year, and This Time It's Bringing the Cowboys

  

  The Baltimore Ravens and Dallas Cowboys will meet at the Maracanã in Rio de Janeiro on September 27, part of a record nine-game NFL International Series slate in 2026.

• Wednesday, July 22nd 2026 - 00:20 UTC

  The verification economy: how KYC rules are reshaping cross-border commerce

  

  In the third quarter of 2025, the World Bank put the global average cost of sending a $200 remittance at 6.36 percent, still more than double the 3 percent target that G20 governments agreed to reach by 2030.

• Tuesday, July 21st 2026 - 21:34 UTC

  Baseless conspiracy theories about Argentina's defeat go viral and are debunked

  

  In the hours after Argentina's 1-0 defeat to Spain in the 2026 World Cup final, social media filled with posts claiming, without offering evidence, that the result was “fixed.” Fact-checkers and Argentina's own coach, Lionel Scaloni, moved to dismiss those versions.

• Tuesday, July 21st 2026 - 21:08 UTC

  Conmebol presses FIFA for a 64-team 2030 World Cup and more matches in South America

  

  The South American Football Confederation (Conmebol) has stepped up its pressure on FIFA for the 2030 World Cup to be played with 64 teams, which would allow Uruguay, Argentina, and Paraguay to host more matches than currently planned. A day after the 2026 World Cup final, won by Spain, the body's president, Alejandro Domínguez, treated the format as all but settled in a message on the social network X: “In 2030 the World Cup is coming to Uruguay, Argentina, and Paraguay,” he wrote, proposing to mark the centenary “with a 64-team competition.”

• Tuesday, July 21st 2026 - 21:01 UTC

  Falklands Assembly congratulates Burnham and looks to continuity with London

  

  The Falklands Legislative Assembly congratulated the United Kingdom's new prime minister, Labour's Andy Burnham, and expressed confidence in the continuity of the relationship between the islands and London, in an official statement issued on Tuesday. The territory's legislative body said it looks forward to working with the new prime minister and his government, and to “continuing the close and productive relationship” between the two sides.