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[US withdraws all its bombers from Britain's RAF Fairford base]]> The base, in Gloucestershire, is a forward operating location for the US Air Force's Global Strike Command The United States has withdrawn all the bombers it had deployed at RAF Fairford, in western England, a week after the incident near the base that British counter-terrorism police are investigating. Washington gave no reason for the decision.

]]> Sun, 04 Oct 2026 21:35:00 GMT <![CDATA[Trump declines to back Lula or Flávio Bolsonaro as Brazil votes]]> Trump gave vague answers. “I'm following it very closely. It's a very important country. The people of Brazil are fantastic. It's a very important election” US President Donald Trump has not endorsed either of the two leading candidates in Brazil's presidential election on Sunday, unlike in recent elections in Honduras, Colombia, Chile, Argentina and Costa Rica.

]]> Sun, 04 Oct 2026 08:57:00 GMT <![CDATA[Halliburton rules out Sea Lion after Argentina raised criminal and civil enforcement]]> In a statement issued in Houston, the New York Stock Exchange-listed company said it had been in contact with the “Argentine Federal Authority” regarding any involvement in the project US oilfield services company Halliburton confirmed on Friday that neither it nor its subsidiaries will work on the Sea Lion project or take part in hydrocarbon exploration or production in or around the Falklands, after Argentine authorities raised the prospect of criminal and civil enforcement.

]]> Sat, 03 Oct 2026 06:56:00 GMT <![CDATA[Christa Pike survives a failed execution in Tennessee and remains in critical condition]]> Pike, 50, was given both doses of pentobarbital set out in the state protocol — two 50-millilitre syringes — at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville Christa Pike, the only woman on death row in the US state of Tennessee, survived a lethal injection execution attempt on Wednesday and remains in critical condition in hospital, her lawyers said. Her defence has asked Governor Bill Lee to commute her sentence.

]]> Thu, 01 Oct 2026 22:20:00 GMT <![CDATA[Trump and six tech companies sign a voluntary artificial intelligence safety accord]]> The document, titled “White House Accord on Super Intelligence: Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities”, was posted by the president after a lunch with industry executives US President Donald Trump and the heads of six technology companies signed a voluntary accord at the White House on Tuesday under which the companies commit to ensuring the safety of their own artificial intelligence systems. Trump called it "morally binding" and said it was "almost like a constitution".

]]> Wed, 30 Sep 2026 19:10:00 GMT <![CDATA[Britain has just received a painful reminder that nobody respects weakness]]> Donald Trump muses about transferring part of our territory to Ireland. The EU threatens us with illegal car and steel tariffs By Daniel Hannan (*) As the Chagos humiliation shows, the Foreign Office’s slavish adoration of international courts has got us nowhere. What has all our imagined soft power brought us? For all our performative internationalism, we find ourselves friendless.

]]> Mon, 28 Sep 2026 06:01:00 GMT <![CDATA[“The UN has more reason to exist every day”, Uruguay's president said two days after Milei]]> “The UN has more reason to exist every day,” Orsi said, while calling for multilateral institutions that are “more effective, more representative” and closer to people's needs Uruguayan President Yamandú Orsi defended the United Nations' relevance and condemned the economic embargo on Cuba before the General Assembly on Thursday, in an address of just under twenty minutes that contrasted with that of his Argentine counterpart, Javier Milei, two days earlier from the same podium.

]]> Fri, 25 Sep 2026 10:41:00 GMT <![CDATA[Trump and Xi end the state visit with the trade truce extended and no substantive deals]]> Artificial intelligence was the clearest point of declared agreement Chinese President Xi Jinping's state visit to Washington ended on Thursday with a two-month extension of the bilateral trade truce, agreed before the meeting itself, and no progress on the central issues dividing the two powers: tariffs, rare earths, agricultural purchases, Taiwan and export restrictions on advanced chips.

]]> Fri, 25 Sep 2026 09:37:00 GMT <![CDATA[Delcy Rodríguez tells the UN there will be elections in Venezuela, without setting a date]]> It was the first address by a Venezuelan head of state to the body's plenary since 2018, when Nicolás Maduro spoke Venezuela's acting president, Delcy Rodríguez, announced on Wednesday before the United Nations General Assembly that her country will hold elections, without specifying when, and thanked US President Donald Trump for "his willingness to return to the path of diplomatic relations and cooperation".

]]> Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:47:00 GMT <![CDATA[Machado's team says three attempts to return to Venezuela failed in 24 hours]]> Asked about the matter, Trump denied having told her not to return, saying he had said nothing to her about it The circle around Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado said this week that three attempts to return to Venezuela from Panama, by sea and by air, were thwarted within roughly 24 hours. One was recorded in a flight manifest placing her among the passengers of an aircraft that never took off; the document does not establish why.

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