Politics

• Wednesday, October 14th 2026 - 22:02 UTC

  US lifts sanctions on Jorge Rodríguez, president of Venezuela’s National Assembly

  

  The US Treasury Department on Wednesday removed from its sanctions list Jorge Rodríguez, president of Venezuela’s National Assembly and brother of acting president Delcy Rodríguez. The Treasury did not explain the reasons for the decision.

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

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

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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.

• Tuesday, October 13th 2026 - 19:03 UTC

  Miliband: Falklands residents have the right to develop their resources “as they see fit”

  

  British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband said on Tuesday that the people of the Falkland Islands “have a right to develop their natural resources as they see fit”, as he announced on X the British government’s measures to protect companies and individuals from Argentine sanctions.

• Tuesday, October 13th 2026 - 18:53 UTC

  UK Overseas Territories Minister accuses Milei of using the Falklands for electoral ends

  

  British Overseas Territories Minister Uma Kumaran on Tuesday accused Argentine President Javier Milei of a “brazen attempt to use the people of the Falkland Islands as some sort of political prop ahead of Argentina’s elections next year”, in a statement to the House of Commons watched from the gallery by the Chair of the islands’ Legislative Assembly, Jack Ford.

• Tuesday, October 13th 2026 - 18:45 UTC

  London says it will abide by any law of the sea provisional measures as it moves to shield its companies

  

  The British government said on Tuesday that any provisional measures ordered by the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea are binding and that the United Kingdom complies with its international obligations, on the same day Argentina asked that tribunal to halt the Sea Lion oil project in Falklands waters. In parallel, London announced it will use its protection of trading interests legislation to shield British companies from Argentine sanctions.

• Tuesday, October 13th 2026 - 14:52 UTC

  Lubetkin warns Flávio Bolsonaro that “it is not easy to leave Mercosur”

  

  Uruguay’s Foreign Minister Mario Lubetkin has warned Brazilian presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro that “it is not easy to leave Mercosur”, in response to his criticism of the bloc during the campaign for the October 25 runoff. In the same interview, with the newspaper Folha de S.Paulo, he said Uruguay would not restore diplomatic relations with Venezuela while Delcy Rodríguez governs.

• Tuesday, October 13th 2026 - 09:13 UTC

  “Falkland Islanders will is to remain British, and we will uphold it”, PM Burnham told Trump

  

  “In my meeting with President Trump I raised the Falkland Islands and the clear and declared will of the Islanders to remain British”, revealed United Kingdom Prime Minister Andy Burnham in an oral statement to the House of Commons this Monday.

• Monday, October 12th 2026 - 21:57 UTC

  Republican senators urge Trump to cancel the Putin diesel deal as unlawful

  

  Four Republican and three Democratic members of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee have urged President Donald Trump to “immediately reverse course” on his diesel supply deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin, arguing it contravenes the law banning Russian energy imports. It is the most direct Republican criticism of a Trump foreign policy decision in his current term.