Politics

• Sunday, June 7th 2026 - 23:52 UTC

  Argentina seeks a trade pact that would link it with the UK for the first time since 1982

  

  Argentina has applied to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), a step that, if completed, would place it for the first time since the 1982 Falklands War in a trade agreement that also includes the United Kingdom. Foreign Minister Pablo Quirno announced the decision during a tour of Europe and handed the formal letter of intent to New Zealand, the treaty's depositary.

• Sunday, June 7th 2026 - 21:24 UTC

  Trump says he will urge Netanyahu not to retaliate after Iran's missile attack on Israel

  

  US President Donald Trump said he would call Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to ask him not to respond to the missiles Iran fired at Israel on Sunday, in an effort to prevent a new escalation and salvage a deal with Tehran that he considers “very close.” It was Iran's first direct attack since the ceasefire reached on April 8.

• Sunday, June 7th 2026 - 21:22 UTC

  Pope Leo XIV expected to visit Peru in November, including his former diocese of Chiclayo

  

  Pope Leo XIV is expected to visit Peru in November, returning to the country where he was bishop of Chiclayo, carried out much of his pastoral life and obtained citizenship. Interim President José María Balcázar said on Sunday that the trip is “programmed from November 10,” in brief remarks after voting in the presidential runoff.

• Sunday, June 7th 2026 - 21:17 UTC

  Trump's 'Shield of the Americas' reshapes Central America's war on drug cartels

  

  Donald Trump's return to the White House and the launch of the “Shield of the Americas” —a militarized anti-narcotics coalition that excludes Mexico and that Washington unveiled in Miami in March— have reshaped the security landscape in Central America. The pressure, intensified after the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in January, has pushed trafficking routes into international waters and forced uneven responses across the isthmus, according to a report by EL PAÍS.

• Saturday, June 6th 2026 - 12:44 UTC

  Royal Navy will receive all eight Type 26 frigates as planned, Minister Pollard confirms

  

  The Royal Navy will receive all eight of its Type 26 frigates as planned, despite speculation over build slots being offered to the Norwegian navy, Defense Minister Luke Pollard has confirmed.

• Saturday, June 6th 2026 - 08:09 UTC

  Falklands’ public meeting Monday 8th June on the 2026/27 annual budget, with Secretary Clunie attending

  

  The Falkland Islands Government will be holding a public meeting on Monday 8th June 2026 from 5-6pm in the Court & Assembly Chamber where the Financial Secretary, Pat Clunie will present the 2026-27 annual budget.

• Friday, June 5th 2026 - 23:56 UTC

  Fujimori and Sánchez close campaigns in Lima before Peru's tight Sunday runoff

  

  Peru's presidential candidates, conservative Keiko Fujimori and leftist Roberto Sánchez, closed their campaigns in Lima on Thursday before thousands of supporters, three days before a runoff that polls suggest will be very close. Fujimori appealed for the “unity and reconciliation” of Peruvians, while Sánchez promised to end the “chaos” and centered his speech on anti-fujimorismo.

• Friday, June 5th 2026 - 23:12 UTC

  US sanctions Cuba's president Díaz-Canel and inner circle in push for regime change

  

  The United States sanctioned Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel and his closest circle on Thursday, in a fresh escalation of Washington's pressure on the island with the stated goal of forcing a change of regime after 67 years of communist government. Havana rejected the move at once.

• Friday, June 5th 2026 - 23:06 UTC

  Chile's far-right proposes a 'Museum of Truth' on the Allende era to counter coup memory

  

  Seven of the eight deputies of the National Libertarian Party (PNL), the far-right group founded by Johannes Kaiser, presented a resolution in Chile's Congress asking President José Antonio Kast to create a “Museum of Truth” devoted to what they describe as “the abuse, hunger and humiliation” of the Popular Unity government, led by Salvador Allende from 1970 until his overthrow on September 11, 1973.

• Friday, June 5th 2026 - 22:49 UTC

  Bolivia's blockade crisis reopens a deep racial divide

  

  The social conflict in Bolivia has split the country once again. The road blockade led by Indigenous peasants, which has besieged La Paz for more than a month, has brought expressions of racism to the surface in the capital. Worn down by the lack of gasoline and food and by soaring prices, some residents lash out at the protesters —and the hostility runs in both directions.