Politics

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.
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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.
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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.
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Monday, October 12th 2026 - 10:50 UTC
Lula takes to the streets of São Paulo to close the gap two weeks before the runoff

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva led a large rally on São Paulo’s Avenida Paulista on Sunday to relaunch his campaign two weeks before the October 25 runoff, in which he trails Senator Flávio Bolsonaro. “This country cannot lose its democracy,” he told a largely young crowd.
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Monday, October 12th 2026 - 08:59 UTC
Pope Leo XIV to undergo surgery on a lung nodule a month before his tour of Uruguay, Argentina and Peru

Pope Leo XIV will undergo surgery in Rome this week to remove a lung nodule detected at an early stage, less than a month before the start of his first tour of South America, which will take him to Uruguay, Argentina and Peru from November 6 to 17. The Vatican has announced no changes to the trip.
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Monday, October 12th 2026 - 08:56 UTC
Lawyers and opposition challenge Milei’s citizenship-by-investment scheme as unconstitutional

The citizenship-by-investment programme launched by Javier Milei’s government, which allows foreigners to obtain Argentine nationality in exchange for a US$350,000 contribution to the Treasury or the purchase of a US$800,000 bond, faces challenges from constitutional lawyers and from the opposition, which is trying to block it in Congress.
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Monday, October 12th 2026 - 07:10 UTC
Brexit campaigner Daniel Hannan warns a US shift on the Falklands would wreck the Atlantic alliance

Daniel Hannan, one of the leading strategists of the Brexit campaign and director general of the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), has warned in the Washington Examiner that a change in the US position on the Falklands would put the Atlantic alliance at risk. His column responds to one by economists Walter E. Block and Ege Fakkusoglu defending Argentina’s claim to the archipelago.
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Friday, October 9th 2026 - 20:53 UTC
US sanctions the International Criminal Court hours after a former judge wins the Nobel Peace Prize

Donald Trump’s administration on Friday imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court as an institution, hours after the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to South African jurist Navi Pillay, a former judge of the court, “for her efforts to promote peace and international law”.
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Friday, October 9th 2026 - 07:48 UTC
US plans its first military execution since 1961, by firing squad and livestreamed

The Pentagon will livestream the firing-squad execution of Nidal Malik Hasan, the military psychiatrist who killed 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009, scheduled for December 3. It will be the first execution carried out by the US armed forces since 1961, the first by firing squad since 1945 and the first publicly broadcast in the country’s history.
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Friday, October 9th 2026 - 07:35 UTC
US charges Maduro and Cilia Flores with torture and repression in Venezuela

US federal prosecutors on Thursday brought new torture and repression charges against former Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, adding to the drug trafficking and narco-terrorism case both face in a New York court. The same day, the judge denied a request by Flores for house arrest on health grounds.
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