Politics

• Monday, July 13th 2026 - 07:49 UTC

  Venezuela quake toll rises to 4,490 as government defends withholding missing figure

  

  The death toll from the twin earthquakes that struck northern Venezuela on June 24 rose to at least 4,490, after another 157 fatalities were added to Saturday's count, according to figures released by the president of the National Assembly, Jorge Rodríguez. The number of injured held at 16,740 and that of people rescued alive at 6,462.

• Saturday, July 11th 2026 - 07:19 UTC

  Trump threatens Iran with '1,000 missiles' over alleged assassination plot

  

  US President Donald Trump warned that “1,000 missiles” are armed and aimed at Iran, ready to strike the country should Tehran attempt to assassinate him, in a message posted on his social network that raises tension with the Islamic Republic amid an already ongoing military escalation.

• Saturday, July 11th 2026 - 07:00 UTC

  Four held in Ecuador over migrant-smuggling network to the United States

  

  Ecuador's police arrested four people, including a serving officer and a former immigration-control official, accused of belonging to an alleged network dedicated to smuggling migrants to the United States, the institution said. The arrests were made in simultaneous operations in the provinces of Pichincha, Tungurahua, Carchi and Santa Elena.

• Friday, July 10th 2026 - 18:37 UTC

  Colombia's president-elect asks Congress to be sworn in at a military base

  

  Colombia's president-elect, Abelardo de la Espriella, has asked Congress to assess the legal feasibility of moving his inauguration ceremony, set for August 7, from Bogotá to a military garrison, in a proposal without recent precedent that will be left to the incoming legislature to decide.

• Friday, July 10th 2026 - 18:27 UTC

  Milei plans regional tour seeking investment, with a Bolsonaro visit that irks Lula

  

  Argentine President Javier Milei announced a busy international schedule for the coming weeks, with trips to Brazil, Peru, Colombia and Ecuador, which he presented as part of an outward-looking strategy aimed at attracting trade and investment. The itinerary includes a gesture toward the Brazilian opposition that is likely to cause discomfort for the government of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

• Friday, July 10th 2026 - 18:22 UTC

  Uruguay reels from rare quintuple homicide as five relatives shot dead in Montevideo

  

  Five members of the same family, including a 14-year-old girl, were killed on Friday in a shooting in the El Monarca neighborhood, on the northeastern outskirts of Montevideo, in an attack that authorities link to violence between criminal groups and that has no recent precedent in Uruguay.

• Thursday, July 9th 2026 - 16:12 UTC

  Milei says Argentina is 'diametrically opposite' to the country he inherited in 2023

  

  Argentine President Javier Milei said on Thursday that the country is “diametrically opposite” to the one he inherited when he took office in December 2023, during the vigil marking the 210th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, held at the Historic House in San Miguel de Tucumán.

• Thursday, July 9th 2026 - 14:23 UTC

  Falklands lawmaker meets UK Conservative leader during Westminster visit

  

  A member of the Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly, Cheryl Roberts, met on Tuesday in Westminster with the leader of the UK opposition and of the Conservative Party, Kemi Badenoch, as part of a round of political engagements in the United Kingdom.

• Thursday, July 9th 2026 - 04:57 UTC

  Court orders Argentina to restore Cristina Kirchner's widow's pension

  

  Former Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner will again receive, starting in August, a widow's pension of about 15.7 million pesos gross per month (around 12,000 dollars at the official exchange rate), following a court injunction that ordered the benefit provisionally reinstated after it was suspended in late 2024 in the wake of her corruption conviction.

• Thursday, July 9th 2026 - 04:13 UTC

  Cuba details business reforms opening private firms to foreign investment

  

  The Cuban government on Wednesday set out the scope of measures on the management model for its state and private economic actors, part of a package of 176 reforms approved in June by the National Assembly with the stated aim of liberalizing and decentralizing the island's economy.