Politics

• Friday, September 25th 2026 - 00:10 UTC

  Nine days from the vote, neither Brazilian front-runner comes close to 50%

  

  Neither of Brazil's two leading presidential candidates is approaching the threshold needed to win outright on October 4, according to the latest Datafolha poll, which puts President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on 40% of voting intentions and Senator Flávio Bolsonaro on 36%.

• Friday, September 25th 2026 - 00:08 UTC

  Netanyahu rejects genocide allegations before an assembly emptied by dozens of delegations

  

  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday called genocide allegations against his country over the war in Gaza “the biggest lie of the century”, in an address to the United Nations General Assembly that dozens of delegations left before he began speaking.

• Thursday, September 24th 2026 - 23:47 UTC

  Punta Arenas/Falklands maritime links are based on history, economics and geography

  

  The announced maritime and trade link between Punta Arenas in Chile and the Falkland Islands has been strongly argued and supported by the main newspaper from the Chilean austral city on the Magellan Strait and capital of the Magallanes Region.

• Thursday, September 24th 2026 - 10:59 UTC

  UK replies to Milei: “not the behaviour we expect of a democracy”

  

  The United Kingdom has asked for a written statement to be placed in the official record of the UN General Assembly in response to Argentine President Javier Milei's address, saying Buenos Aires' conduct over the Falklands “is wholly incompatible with the principles established in the United Nations Charter and is not the behaviour we expect of a democracy”.

• Thursday, September 24th 2026 - 10:47 UTC

  Delcy Rodríguez tells the UN there will be elections in Venezuela, without setting a date

  

  Venezuela's acting president, Delcy Rodríguez, announced on Wednesday before the United Nations General Assembly that her country will hold elections, without specifying when, and thanked US President Donald Trump for “his willingness to return to the path of diplomatic relations and cooperation”.

• Thursday, September 24th 2026 - 00:11 UTC

  Machado's team says three attempts to return to Venezuela failed in 24 hours

  

  The circle around Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado said this week that three attempts to return to Venezuela from Panama, by sea and by air, were thwarted within roughly 24 hours. One was recorded in a flight manifest placing her among the passengers of an aircraft that never took off; the document does not establish why.

• Wednesday, September 23rd 2026 - 17:54 UTC

  Milei at the UN: “The Malvinas are a national cause for us”

  

  Argentine President Javier Milei called on the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday to act over what he described as unilateral British actions in the Falklands, and accused the organisation of having “decided to look the other way” on the dispute. “The Malvinas are a national cause for us,” he said, repeating the phrase twice at the start of his address.

• Wednesday, September 23rd 2026 - 17:48 UTC

  Chilean Defense Committee meets in Punta Arenas to address pretensions over Magellan sovereignty

  

  Chilean Vice-president Claudio Alvarado praised the Defense Committee from the House of Deputies which is planning to hold a formal meeting next Friday at the Austral Naval Command in Punta Arenas, to address the Defense budget, Armed Forces capability and austral sovereignty particularly the Magellan Strait.

• Wednesday, September 23rd 2026 - 13:58 UTC

  Chilean Senate reaffirms Magellan Strait sovereignty and support for Punta Arenas to trade with the world

  

  A delegation from the Chilean Senate was in Punta Arenas to subscribe a declaration reaffirming Chilean exclusive sovereignty over the Magellan Strait and committing extra funds for its maintenance and reinforcement of strategic capacities when discussing the 2027 national budget. Likewise they supported the right of the people from the Magallanes Region to freely trade with whoever they decide in the world.

• Wednesday, September 23rd 2026 - 09:49 UTC

  Burnham at the UN: “the rights of British territories to remain British”

  

  British Prime Minister Andy Burnham placed the Falklands among the challenges to the rule of law in his first address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered on Tuesday evening in New York, setting them in the same sentence as Russia.