International

Friday, January 23rd 2026 - 23:04 UTC
EU and Ecuador wrap up talks on sustainable investment deal, EU’s first SIFA with Latin America

The European Union and Ecuador have concluded negotiations on a Sustainable Investment Facilitation Agreement (SIFA), in what Brussels is portraying as the bloc’s first such deal with a Latin American country, according to an EFE report on Friday.
Friday, January 23rd 2026 - 19:19 UTC
EU ‘ready’ to roll out Mercosur deal once South American ratifications start, von der Leyen says

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the European Union is prepared to provisionally implement the EU–Mercosur trade agreement as soon as Mercosur countries begin completing their ratification procedures, seeking to reassure partners after a European Parliament vote injected fresh uncertainty into the bloc’s approval track.
Friday, January 23rd 2026 - 18:16 UTC
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Thursday, January 22nd 2026 - 23:02 UTC
Argentina envoy asks French lawmakers to cover “Falklands” label on map during hearing

Argentina’s ambassador to France, Ian Sielecki, halted the start of a hearing at France’s National Assembly and refused to speak while a map behind him displayed the Falklands/Malvinas as UK territory. Proceedings resumed only after a staff member covered the islands with a sticky note.
Thursday, January 22nd 2026 - 01:54 UTC
Falklands Sports Council launches competition to design Glasgow Games Baton

The run-up to the Commonwealth Games has officially begun in the Falkland Islands, with plans for a King’s Baton Relay revealed by the National Sports Council. In previous years, one baton has travelled around the whole Commonwealth but this time each nation has received their own blank baton.
Thursday, January 22nd 2026 - 00:24 UTC
Trump is buying eleven icebreakers from Finland for Arctic Ocean patrolling

“We are buying the best icebreakers in the world, and Finland is known for producing them,” US president Donald Trump said, as part of his campaign to take over Greenland and his concern as the Arctic Ocean becomes more navigable and with more trade routes.
Thursday, January 22nd 2026 - 00:01 UTC
Why Trump is obsessed with Greenland and why Canada's staying out of it

By Gwynne Dyer - After the Danish and Greenland foreign ministers came out of a meeting in Washington on last week convinced that Donald Trump really intended to seize Greenland, things moved very fast.
Wednesday, January 21st 2026 - 21:26 UTC
European Parliament puts EU-Mercosur trade deal on hold, seeks top court legal opinion

The European Parliament voted on Wednesday to freeze its approval track for the EU-Mercosur trade agreement and request a legal opinion from the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on whether the deal is compatible with EU treaties. The motion passed by a razor-thin margin —334 in favour, 324 against, with 11 abstentions— injecting new uncertainty into a pact that the two blocs had only just signed in Asunción after a quarter-century of negotiations.
Wednesday, January 21st 2026 - 13:16 UTC
UK investment in Antarctica underlines role as a leading polar research nation

A major new British Antarctic Survey (BAS) facility at Rothera Research Station is being presented as evidence of the UK’s standing in polar research. The £100 million Discovery Building—together with a new services network at Rothera—has been formally opened by BAS Director Professor Dame Jane Francis, completing what BAS describes as the largest UK construction project ever carried out in Antarctica.
Wednesday, January 21st 2026 - 11:21 UTC
Why the Chagos Islands are strategically vital to US and UK military operations

The Chagos Archipelago is of major military significance as it hosts the strategically located Diego Garcia base.