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Montevideo, November 11th 2026 - 20:17 UTC

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  • Saturday, October 17th 2026 - 06:17 UTC

    Brent touches US$110 for the first time since May on Middle East tensions

    Attacks around Hormuz have intensified over the past ten days, with Iran saying it is responding to the US blockade of its ports and tougher sanctions imposed last month

    Brent crude reached US$110 a barrel on Friday for the first time since May, driven by fears that escalation in the Middle East could further tighten supplies and by doubts over how much diesel Russia can supply to the market. Brent settled 3.7% higher at US$109.86, its highest since May 19, while US benchmark WTI rose 3.5% to US$101.41.

  • Friday, October 16th 2026 - 21:50 UTC

    Rodrigues-Birkett, UN leadership hopeful: “Not choosing a woman would send a very negative message”

    Guyana’s ambassador to the UN, Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett, one of the best-placed candidates to succeed António Guterres at the head of the organisation, has warned that not choosing a woman “would send a very negative message to the world”, in an interview with the newspaper El País published on the day the Security Council holds its first informal colour-coded straw poll, which reveals whether any of the five permanent members opposes each candidate.

  • Friday, October 16th 2026 - 10:07 UTC

    The Falklands dispute threatens Argentina’s bid to join the trans-Pacific trade pact

    The possibility was raised in the House of Commons by Conservative MP Wendy Morton, who urged the government to prepare to oppose Argentina’s application if threats over the islands continue

    The escalating dispute between Argentina and the United Kingdom over the Sea Lion oil project north of the Falklands has spilled into trade: London, a member of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, has not ruled out using its position to stall Argentina’s bid to join the pact, which requires the consensus of all its members. The British government says Buenos Aires’s conduct raises “very serious questions about its reliability as a partner”.

  • Friday, October 16th 2026 - 09:59 UTC

    Inter-American Court hears case over the April 11, 2002 killings in Caracas

    The only people convicted over the events were Metropolitan Police officers, released this year, and police commissioner Iván Simonovis, who escaped house arrest in 2019 and lives in exile

    The Inter-American Court of Human Rights held this week in San José, Costa Rica, the first public hearing in the case over the killings of April 11, 2002 in Caracas, when an opposition march came under gunfire near the Miraflores Palace. Nineteen people died and dozens were wounded that day, in the run-up to the coup that removed then-president Hugo Chávez from power for two days.

  • Friday, October 16th 2026 - 09:52 UTC

    Uruguay signs a US$5.7 billion data centre investment with Spain’s Solaria

    The project, under a free-trade-zone regime, will allocate US$5.5 billion to the data centres and US$200 million to a 350-megawatt solar plant to supply the complex

    Uruguayan President Yamandú Orsi on Wednesday signed an agreement with Spanish company Solaria Energía y Medio Ambiente to develop a data centre campus of up to 500 megawatts with its own solar generation, a US$5.7 billion investment the government described as the largest in the country’s history. The opposition has demanded explanations about the company’s financial capacity and the jobs the project will create.

  • Friday, October 16th 2026 - 09:40 UTC

    Argentina abstains on a Russian UN resolution on colonialism and draws criticism

    Several speakers questioned Russia’s credibility in presenting it given its invasion of Ukraine. Brazil, Uruguay and Mexico were among the countries that voted in favour

    Argentina abstained on Thursday in a vote by the UN General Assembly’s Fourth Committee on a Russian-sponsored draft on “contemporary forms of colonialism”, a decision that Buenos Aires province’s government minister, opposition figure Carlos Bianco, linked to President Javier Milei’s alignment with the United States and to Argentina’s strategy over the Falklands.

  • Wednesday, October 14th 2026 - 22:05 UTC

    Badenoch accuses Farage of trading Chagos for Trump’s silence on the Falklands

    “There is no pride in our country in the way he talks about us. This is careless, loose talk from a man who wants to be responsible for Britain’s national security,” added Badenoch

    British Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has called “humiliating” a proposal by Reform UK leader Nigel Farage to offer US President Donald Trump the Chagos archipelago in exchange for him to stop talking about the Falklands. “Giving away British territory in return for someone keeping quiet is not a deal. It is humiliating,” she told The Telegraph.

  • Wednesday, October 14th 2026 - 21:53 UTC

    Farage proposes offering Trump Diego Garcia in exchange for his silence on the Falklands

    “I’d have gone in and said, ‘Right, you know what mate? Chagos, it’s yours. Diego Garcia, in perpetuity, the most strategic American military base in the world’,” Farage said

    Reform UK leader c has said that, if he were prime minister, he would offer US President Donald Trump the use in perpetuity of the Diego Garcia military base, in the Chagos archipelago, in exchange for him to stop talking about the Falklands. The proposal sparked a clash with Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch, who called it “humiliating”, and prompted the White House to come to Farage’s defence.

  • Wednesday, October 14th 2026 - 21:45 UTC

    What are the red notices Argentina has sought from Interpol over Sea Lion

    The chief executive of the islands’ government, Andrea Clausen, acknowledged that the use of Interpol poses a threat

    Argentina has requested Interpol red notices against individuals linked to the Sea Lion oil project north of the Falklands, and the United Kingdom has asked the organisation to reject them as “politically motivated”, according to the British newspaper The Guardian. Interpol responded by reaffirming Article 3 of its constitution, which prohibits any intervention or activity of a political character.

  • Wednesday, October 14th 2026 - 21:10 UTC

    HMS Protector breaks down and leaves UK without an Ice Patrol

    HMS Protector at Devonport Dockyard, Plymouth

    Britain has been left without its Ice Patrol after HMS Protector on Tuesday suffered engine problems and had to be towed back to Plymouth, according to reports in the media. This could speed the Royal Navy’s assessment as to whether the vessel originally built in Norway and now with 25 years of rough seas in both poles has to be replaced.