Politics

• Thursday, August 20th 2026 - 08:13 UTC

  A judge demands urgent reports from Argentina's government on the fate of road funds

  

  Federal judge Ernesto Kreplak, sitting in La Plata, this week admitted a class action and requested urgent reports from the Ministry of Economy, the National Roads Directorate and Banco Nación on the use of resources from the Integrated Road System (SisVial), a trust fund financed by the tax on liquid fuels whose legal purpose is the construction and maintenance of national highways.

• Thursday, August 20th 2026 - 08:06 UTC

  Harry and Meghan will move to the UK without resuming official royal duties

  

  The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, will settle in the United Kingdom from this autumn, though they will not resume their roles as working members of the royal family, British media reported on Wednesday. The story was broken by The Telegraph and corroborated to the Associated Press by a person close to the couple who was not authorised to speak publicly. There has been no official statement from the palace or the Sussexes.

• Wednesday, August 19th 2026 - 21:50 UTC

  A critical report says Argentina's investment regime concentrated capital in mining and oil

  

  Argentina's Large Investment Incentive Regime (RIGI), created in 2024, “consolidated a strongly extractive profile and did not stimulate new sectors,” according to a report released on Wednesday by the RIGI Observatory, a coalition of civil society organisations and academic centres that examines the scheme from a critical standpoint.

• Wednesday, August 19th 2026 - 09:52 UTC

  An Argentine consultant who advised Milei's campaign detained in Bolivia after a shooting

  

  Bolivian police detained Argentine political consultant Fernando Cerimedo in the early hours of Tuesday at Viru Viru international airport in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, hours after his former partner, Bolivian lawyer Nadia Beller, was shot three times outside a hotel in the city. Cerimedo has not been formally charged and his involvement in the attack, which remains under investigation, has not been established.

• Tuesday, August 18th 2026 - 22:06 UTC

  Trump posts a map designating the Strait of Hormuz as “new US territory”

  

  US President Donald Trump on Tuesday posted an image on his Truth Social platform showing a map of the Strait of Hormuz circled and captioned “NEW U.S. Territory,” above a band in the colours of the American flag. The post carried no accompanying text.

• Tuesday, August 18th 2026 - 06:56 UTC

  Petrobras confirms oil off the Amapá coast but cannot yet estimate the volume

  

  Brazil's state-controlled Petrobras confirmed on Monday the presence of oil in the Morpho exploratory well, located in ultra-deep waters off the northern state of Amapá, in the Foz do Amazonas basin. The company cautioned that it cannot yet estimate the volume found or the viability of commercial production.

• Tuesday, August 18th 2026 - 06:52 UTC

  Argentina's vice-president says she is “extremely worried” about those who cannot make ends meet

  

  Argentina's vice-president, Victoria Villarruel, has again distanced herself from Javier Milei's government, voicing concern over unemployment and the financial difficulties facing households. “I am extremely worried about Argentines who today have no work or who cannot make ends meet,” she said at the opening of Expo Venado 2026, an agricultural fair in Venado Tuerto, Santa Fe province.

• Tuesday, August 18th 2026 - 06:38 UTC

  Colombia's president hands out branded footballs in an earthquake-hit port city

  

  Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella was filmed on Sunday throwing footballs to children on a street in Buenaventura, the country's main Pacific port and one of the places worst affected by the magnitude 7.4 earthquake of August 10. The balls carried the logo of Defensores de la Patria, the political movement that brought him to the presidency eleven days ago.

• Tuesday, August 18th 2026 - 06:15 UTC

  Moscow warns the UK of “consequences” over British drones used against its territory

  

  Russia's embassy in London has accused the British government of deliberately opting for an escalation of the Ukraine conflict, after it emerged that British-made drones were used in strikes on targets inside Russian territory. “In doing so, the United Kingdom is acting as an accomplice and co-perpetrator of the bloody crimes and terrorist attacks,” it said in a statement.

• Monday, August 17th 2026 - 23:48 UTC

  A Chelsea fan displays a Falklands flag as Enzo Fernández comes on

  

  A Chelsea supporter held up a Falkland Islands flag at Stamford Bridge on Saturday as Argentine midfielder Enzo Fernández came onto the pitch during the club's final pre-season friendly, a 3-1 win over Real Sociedad.