MercoPress https://en.mercopress.com/ South Atlantic News Agency en Copyright 2026, MercoPress. https://en.mercopress.com/web/img/en/mercopress-logo.gif MercoPress http://en.mercopress.com/ <![CDATA[Trump insults Norway and rejects its immigrants for not giving him the Nobel Peace Prize]]> Trump has made no secret of his wish to win the prize US President Donald Trump lashed out at Norway at a rally in Port Huron, Michigan, on Sunday, saying Norwegian immigrants are not welcome in the United States because the Nobel Committee did not award him the Peace Prize. Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide replied that the committee is independent.

]]> Mon, 26 Oct 2026 13:24:00 GMT <![CDATA[Trump questions Lula’s victory as most of the region, including the right, congratulates him]]> “They just applied the Biden playbook in Brazil. Bolsonaro had a big lead in the first round and was the clear favourite. But communists don’t give up power once they get it,” Trump said US President Donald Trump cast doubt on Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s re-election in Brazil and compared it with the 2020 US election, while most Latin American governments, including several right-wing allies of Washington, congratulated the Brazilian president. In Argentina, President Javier Milei remained silent.

]]> Mon, 26 Oct 2026 13:16:00 GMT <![CDATA[Defense and Falklands, PM Burnham call with Chilean president Kast]]> The leaders began by outlining their shared ambitions to strengthen the two nations’ relationship including on defense, security, science and trade. Ten Downing Street reported on Friday that Prime Minister Andy Burnham spoke to the President of Chile, Jose Antonio Kast on Friday 23 October.

]]> Sun, 25 Oct 2026 09:36:00 GMT <![CDATA[Next Wednesday, Chancellor Healey delivers the Budget statement, PM Burnham’s first]]> The previous Labour Chancellor, Rachel Reeves holding the famous red Budget box Each year UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer makes the Budget statement to the House of Commons outlining the state of the economy and the Government's proposals for changes to taxation. The government of PM Andy Burnham has announced that the Budget will take place this week on Wednesday 28 October 2026 and delivered by Chancellor MP John Healey. The last Budget was delivered Wednesday, 26 November 2025.

]]> Sun, 25 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[7 Workforce Planning Platforms for Employers Trying to Raise Productivity Without Overhiring]]> On October 6 Brazil's senators began arguing over a constitutional amendment that would take the legal working week down from 44 hours to 40 and leave every pay packet where it is. For employers across South America's largest economy that means roughly 9% fewer contracted hours for the same payroll, and the reflex will be to hire into the gap. Seven workforce planning platforms offer a cheaper answer. They start by showing what the people already on the books can do, before anyone new is recruited.

]]> Sun, 25 Oct 2026 00:03:00 GMT <![CDATA[Burnham tells Trump of the “economic consequences” of Argentina’s Falklands measures]]> Trump has said in recent weeks that the US position of neutrality on sovereignty over the archipelago is under review British Prime Minister Andy Burnham set out to US President Donald Trump on Friday “the economic consequences that Argentina’s coercive measures have for the United Kingdom and the United States”, in a phone call focused on the Sea Lion oil project north of the Falklands, according to a Downing Street statement quoted by the EFE news agency. Burnham reiterated the islanders’ right to develop their natural resources.

]]> Sat, 24 Oct 2026 08:32:00 GMT <![CDATA[The Pope cancels a visit to Assisi as a medical precaution, two weeks before his South American tour]]> According to a medical bulletin released by the Vatican on Friday, a follow-up chest X-ray “confirmed his optimal post-operative recovery” Pope Leo XIV has cancelled a visit planned for Tuesday, October 27, to Assisi, in central Italy, after his doctors advised against helicopter travel so soon after the lung surgery he underwent on October 13. It is the first engagement on his schedule to be called off since the operation, two weeks before the start of his tour of Uruguay, Argentina and Peru.

]]> Fri, 23 Oct 2026 18:19:00 GMT <![CDATA[Trump won’t betray Britain over the Falklands]]> The King’s visit to US in April was a stunning success: even “No Kings” Democrat Members of Congress giving King Charles a series of standing ovations By Nile Gardiner (*) - In his second term, Donald Trump has aggressively pursued an America First foreign policy. And rightly so. The U.S. president represents the American people, and every policy he advances should be in his nation’s interest. But backing British sovereignty over the Falkland Islands fits firmly within this vision, and his administration should stand shoulder to shoulder with the UK on an issue of huge importance to the British people.

]]> Thu, 22 Oct 2026 14:40:00 GMT <![CDATA[A partial win in Hamburg could help Milei in 2027, an analysis suggests]]> The tribunal will hold its hearing on November 10 and 11 Argentina has slim chances of persuading the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea to halt the Sea Lion oil project north of the Falklands by invoking its sovereign rights, but it could secure a partial victory on environmental grounds that would help President Javier Milei ahead of the 2027 election, according to an analysis by an international law academic published on The Conversation.

]]> Thu, 22 Oct 2026 02:24:00 GMT <![CDATA[Global alert over two critical PHP flaws forces government websites offline]]> The flaws, tracked as CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, carry a severity score of 9.2 out of 10 and affect all PHP installations serving web requests Governments and companies in several countries temporarily took websites offline this week over two critical vulnerabilities in PHP, the programming language that powers much of the internet, which allow an attacker to run code remotely on servers without authenticating. PHP’s development team released fixes on Wednesday and urged users to update immediately.

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