Politics

• Friday, October 3rd 2025 - 18:32 UTC

  First woman ever tapped for the Archbishop of Canterbury post

  

  Dame Sarah Mullally has been named the next Archbishop of Canterbury, making her the first woman to hold the position in the Church of England's history.

• Friday, October 3rd 2025 - 10:55 UTC

  Bessent insists US ready to help Argentina

  

  US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent publicly reiterated his strong support for Argentine President Javier Milei's government, confirming that his agency was prepared “to do whatever it takes” to stabilize the South American country's economy and was working on a currency swap package believed to be around US$20 billion.

• Friday, October 3rd 2025 - 10:22 UTC

  Two vetoes repealed: New Congressional defeat for Milei

  

  The Argentine Senate rejected President Javier Milei's vetoes on two key bills—the University Funding Law and the Pediatric Emergency Law (which allocates resources to the Garrahan Hospital)—effectively ensuring both laws remain in force.

• Friday, October 3rd 2025 - 10:00 UTC

  Chief prosecutor of Chile's new special unit appointed

  

  Chile's Chief Prosecutor Ángel Valencia has appointed Miguel Ángel Orellana as the first head of the new Supraterritorial Prosecutor's Office (FST) created specifically to combat organized crime and highly complex transnational cases. Until now, Orellana served as chief prosecutor for High-Complexity Cases at the Eastern Metropolitan Regional Prosecutor's Office.

• Thursday, October 2nd 2025 - 09:06 UTC

  Kicillof visits CFK as midterms loom over

  

  Axel Kicillof, Governor of the Argentine province of Buenos Aires, and arguably the main opposition leader following Sept. 7 elections in his district, where he dealt a heavy blow to President Javier Milei's political force, paid a visit Wednesday to Justicialist (Peronist) Party Chairwoman Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK).

• Thursday, October 2nd 2025 - 08:57 UTC

  US gov't shuts down again after seven years

  

  The United States' federal government ended up in the first shutdown in seven years after Republicans and Democrats in the Senate failed to agree on a spending bill.

• Thursday, October 2nd 2025 - 08:57 UTC

  Colombian gov't hands over parts of Pablo Escobar's estate to victims of violence

  

  The Colombian Government of President Gustavo Petro has begun the process of transferring parts of the infamous Hacienda Nápoles —once owned by drug lord Pablo Escobar— to women who were victims of the country's armed conflict.

• Thursday, October 2nd 2025 - 08:32 UTC

  Falklands, British Forces announce a nine days training exercise

  

  The British Forces South Atlantic Island, with HQ in Falkland Islands, is reporting that between 06 – 14 October 2025, BFSAIs current RIC (Roulement Infantry Company), I Company, 2nd Battalion the Rifles (2 RIFLES), will be conducting their final training exercise whilst deployed to the Falkland Islands.

• Thursday, October 2nd 2025 - 08:01 UTC

  “Argentina’s finances just got even more surreal”, by The Economist

  

  On September 22nd, 15 minutes before Argentina’s foreign-exchange markets opened, America’s government made an intervention. “Argentina is a systemically important US ally,” Scott Bessent, America’s treasury secretary, wrote on X, a social network. He added that the United States would “do what is needed” and that “all options for stabilization are on the table.”

• Wednesday, October 1st 2025 - 22:35 UTC

  Vieira: Bolsonaro's conviction not open for discussion with Trump

  

  Brazilian Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira said Wednesday during a hearing before the Lower House's Foreign Affairs Committee that President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's openness to trade negotiations with his US counterpart Donald Trump was not to be taken for a prelude to a pardon for the convicted Jair Bolsonaro.