Politics

• Thursday, November 20th 2025 - 10:43 UTC

  IDB grants Uruguay US$25 million loan for security improvements

  

  Uruguay's Interior Ministry has secured the first disbursement of a US$200 million credit line from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), with an initial US$25 million tranche set for execution in 2026 to modernize the country's public security apparatus. The financing supports the government's ambitious 2025–2035 National Public Security Plan, aiming to address longstanding concerns about rising crime and prison conditions.

• Thursday, November 20th 2025 - 09:45 UTC

  Chile: LATAM Airlines pilots' union ends 8-day strike

  

  LATAM Airlines Group and the SPL pilots' union (Sindicato de Pilotos de Latam) reached an agreement late Wednesday, concluding the airline’s first pilot strike since 1997. The work stoppage, which involved 464 unionized pilots, had led to widespread flight cancellations over the past eight days.

• Thursday, November 20th 2025 - 08:59 UTC

  Cambridge Dictionary names AI related 'parasocial' as the Word of the Year 2025

  

  The word is defined by the Cambridge Dictionary as ‘involving or relating to a connection that someone feels between themselves and a famous person they do not know, a character in a book, film, TV series, etc, or an artificial intelligence’.

• Thursday, November 20th 2025 - 08:48 UTC

  Art market opens with record sale for Klimt’s “Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer”

  

  The “Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer” by the Austrian artist Gustav Klimt, was sold at Sotheby’s on Tuesday night for US$236.4 million, making it the second-most expensive painting ever sold at auction, blowing past its original estimate of more than US$150 million.

• Thursday, November 20th 2025 - 08:34 UTC

  Falklands, Broadband Support Packages for households, begins February

  

  The Falkland Islands Government (FIG) is pleased to update the public on the introduction of Broadband Support Packages, linked to the changes to VSAT licensing announced at the end of October. From 1 February 2026, eligible households will be able to sign up, via FIG, to receive a subsidized unlimited broadband package from Sure South Atlantic (Sure).

• Thursday, November 20th 2025 - 08:23 UTC

  BBC can survive President Trump’s libel suit, but it is a blow to its trust reputation

  

  By Gwynne Dyer - I have spent thousands of hours sitting alongside video editors working on productions quite similar to the Panorama documentary that has landed the British Broadcasting Corporation with the threat of a billion-dollar libel suit by Donald Trump. I think I know what happened.

• Thursday, November 20th 2025 - 08:08 UTC

  Charles III birthday celebration in Buenos Aires embassy included some 800 guests

  

  Britain’s Ambassador in Buenos Aires David Cairns hosted the first major event of his posting in Argentina on Tuesday, welcoming around 800 guests to the residence in Recoleta for a celebration marking the 77th birthday of King Charles III.

• Wednesday, November 19th 2025 - 23:41 UTC

  Falklands Election, Friday closing date for potential candidates’ nomination

  

  The Deputy Returning Officer, Elizabeth J. Dent wishes to inform potential candidates for the General Election that the closing date for receipt of nomination papers is 4pm Friday 21 November 2025 at the Registry Office, Townhall, Stanley.

• Wednesday, November 19th 2025 - 23:39 UTC

  Assets from CFK and Lázaro Báez seized

  

  The Federal Oral Court # 2 (TOF 2) in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires has ordered the seizure of real estate and funds valued at an updated total of US$684,990,350,139.86 in the ongoing case concerning fraudulent administration against the State's Motorroads Bureau (Vialidad).

• Wednesday, November 19th 2025 - 22:23 UTC

  Five foreign tourists confirmed dead in Chilean national park

  

  The death toll has risen to five on Wednesday following a tragic incident involving foreign tourists on the challenging “O” circuit in Torres del Paine National Park in Chile. Authorities launched a major operation to locate several tourists who went missing while hiking the strenuous route, known for its intense weather variability.