Politics

Sunday, September 27th 2026 - 12:26 UTC
Brazil reaches the election with its top court under suspicion and the candidates tied

Brazil votes next Sunday in a presidential election that arrives with the Supreme Federal Court mired in its worst institutional crisis since the return to democracy, the right's candidate formally under investigation in the same case, and the two leading contenders tied within the margin of error in every poll.
Saturday, September 26th 2026 - 11:06 UTC
De la Espriella announces the reopening of oil exploration in Colombia, including fracking

Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella announced on Friday that his government will “fully” reopen hydrocarbon exploration and the signing of new contracts, including hydraulic fracturing, during the swearing-in of businessman Joaquín Gutiérrez as president of Ecopetrol, the country's largest company.
Friday, September 25th 2026 - 23:26 UTC
Falklands Assembly responds to Argentina's campaign: “This Assembly remains calm”

The chair of the Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly, Jack Ford, said on Thursday during a sitting of the body that there is “nothing new” in the claims made this week, and that the institution “remains calm” and steadfast in defending the right of the archipelago's residents to determine their own future.
Friday, September 25th 2026 - 21:28 UTC
Milei and Netanyahu discussed the Falklands in his only bilateral in New York

Argentine President Javier Milei met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for about twenty minutes on Thursday at United Nations headquarters, in what was his only bilateral meeting with a head of state or government during his trip to New York. Foreign Minister Pablo Quirno confirmed they discussed the Falklands.
Friday, September 25th 2026 - 10:41 UTC
“The UN has more reason to exist every day”, Uruguay's president said two days after Milei

Uruguayan President Yamandú Orsi defended the United Nations' relevance and condemned the economic embargo on Cuba before the General Assembly on Thursday, in an address of just under twenty minutes that contrasted with that of his Argentine counterpart, Javier Milei, two days earlier from the same podium.
Friday, September 25th 2026 - 09:37 UTC
Trump and Xi end the state visit with the trade truce extended and no substantive deals

Chinese President Xi Jinping's state visit to Washington ended on Thursday with a two-month extension of the bilateral trade truce, agreed before the meeting itself, and no progress on the central issues dividing the two powers: tariffs, rare earths, agricultural purchases, Taiwan and export restrictions on advanced chips.
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”.