Politics

• Thursday, October 22nd 2026 - 00:07 UTC

  Milei says Argentina will pursue the Falklands diplomatically: “We do not believe in military solutions”

  

  Argentine President Javier Milei said in Madrid on Wednesday that he is confident of recovering the Falklands through diplomacy and repeated three times that his government “does not believe in military solutions”, amid an escalating dispute with the United Kingdom over the Sea Lion oil project.

• Wednesday, October 21st 2026 - 19:14 UTC

  Paraguay’s president travels to Washington and will meet the CIA director

  

  Paraguayan President Santiago Peña travelled to Washington on Wednesday for a brief visit that includes a meeting with US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director John Ratcliffe and a keynote address at the annual gala of the Inter-American Dialogue think tank.

• Wednesday, October 21st 2026 - 14:31 UTC

  Milei calls Sánchez an “unpresentable dictator” in Madrid in the middle of Spain’s election campaign

  

  Argentine President Javier Milei on Wednesday called Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez an “unpresentable dictator”, “corrupt” and “authoritarian”, and urged Spaniards to “kick the socialists out” of power, at his first public event in Madrid, just over a month before the snap general election on November 29.

• Wednesday, October 21st 2026 - 14:21 UTC

  Lula ramps up public handouts in the final stretch of Brazil’s presidential campaign

  

  Some 20 million Brazilian families begin receiving this week a 15% increase in the Bolsa Família social programme, the centrepiece of a broad package of aid, subsidies and tax cuts announced by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the final stretch of the campaign for Sunday’s runoff, in which he faces Senator Flávio Bolsonaro in a statistical tie.

• Wednesday, October 21st 2026 - 10:15 UTC

  Falklands: UK Statement at the UN Fourth Committee on Decolonization

  

  Statement by Ambassador Kate Foster, UK Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN, at the UN’s Special Political and Decolonization Fourth Committee. “The United Kingdom has no doubt about its sovereignty over both the Falkland Islands, and South Georgia, and the South Sandwich Islands, and their surrounding maritime areas”.

• Wednesday, October 21st 2026 - 01:46 UTC

  Argentina and the UK to face off in Hamburg on November 10 over Falklands oil

  

  The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea will hold hearings on November 10 and 11 on Argentina’s request for an order requiring the United Kingdom to halt the Sea Lion oil project north of the Falklands. The dates were set by the tribunal’s president, Judge Maurice K. Kamga, in an order dated October 20.

• Tuesday, October 20th 2026 - 16:10 UTC

  A Russian satellite shadows a US one for days in an unprecedented manoeuvre

  

  A Russian military satellite, Kosmos-2612, manoeuvred for several days at close range to a commercial satellite operated by a US company that supplies images to Ukraine, coming within less than five kilometres, in what space-tracking specialists describe as an unprecedented approach between active satellites belonging to different owners.

• Tuesday, October 20th 2026 - 15:29 UTC

  Milei calls Lula a “leftist thief” and says he hopes he will not “steal” Brazil’s election

  

  Argentine President Javier Milei attacked his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva again on Tuesday, accusing him of a “dirty campaign” and saying he hoped Lula would not try to “steal” Sunday’s presidential runoff, in which he faces Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, whom Milei has publicly backed.

• Tuesday, October 20th 2026 - 10:09 UTC

  Meta races the clock to prove to Brazil’s electoral court it treats Lula and Bolsonaro equally

  

  The 24-hour deadline given by Brazil’s Superior Electoral Court to Meta to show that its algorithms and artificial intelligence treat President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Senator Flávio Bolsonaro equally expires on Tuesday, five days before the runoff. If the owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp fails to show compliance, the daily fine will double from 500,000 to one million reais.

• Tuesday, October 20th 2026 - 09:52 UTC

  Argentina awaits the Supreme Court after the YPF case is closed at first instance

  

  New York federal judge Loretta Preska has vacated her 2023 judgment ordering Argentina to pay more than US$16 billion over the expropriation of oil company YPF and formally closed the case at first instance. Its future now depends on whether the US Supreme Court agrees to review it, as litigation funder Burford Capital requested in early October.