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Montevideo, June 30th 2026 - 12:46 UTC

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  • Monday, June 15th 2026 - 15:38 UTC

    Macron skips the planned protocol and does not greet Trump in person at the G7 in France

    Trump arrived in Évian from Geneva airport, where he landed in the early afternoon. At the Hôtel Royal in the spa town, the French leader was not waiting for him on the red carpet

    French President Emmanuel Macron skipped the planned program on Monday and did not personally receive his US counterpart, Donald Trump, on his arrival at the G7 summit in Évian, in the French Alps. The provisional agenda for the meeting had Trump as the only leader to be personally received by the host.

  • Monday, June 15th 2026 - 08:21 UTC

    US and Iran announce a deal to end their war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz

    Trump later clarified that the definitive reopening of Hormuz would take place after Friday's signing

    The United States and Iran reached a preliminary peace deal on Sunday to end nearly four months of war in the Middle East and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, Pakistan, the mediating country, announced. The agreement, confirmed by both US President Donald Trump and Tehran, will be officially signed on Friday, June 19, in Switzerland.

  • Sunday, June 14th 2026 - 12:35 UTC

    'Honduras Gate' audios linking Milei to a disinformation network stir controversy, and denials

    Hernández says Milei “is supporting with $350,000” a project that, according to that account, sought to set up a “news site” operated from the US; the audios also mention Benjamin Netanyahu

    A set of leaked audios, released in late April by left-leaning Spanish media outlets and dubbed “Honduras Gate,” has stirred political controversy in Latin America by alleging a regional disinformation network and naming Argentine President Javier Milei as one of its financiers. The recordings' authenticity is in dispute: the main figure named called them false, and the others mentioned denied or did not respond to the accusations.

  • Saturday, June 13th 2026 - 19:02 UTC

    Trump says a US strike killed Niño Guerrero, leader of Venezuela's Tren de Aragua gang

    Trump said the operation was “coordinated closely” with Venezuela, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth held that US forces struck a Tren de Aragua compound

    US President Donald Trump announced on Friday night that his country's Southern Command had killed, in a “swift and lethal” strike, Héctor Rusthenford Guerrero Flores, alias Niño Guerrero, whom he described as the leader of Tren de Aragua, “one of the most bloodthirsty terrorist organizations on the planet.” Venezuela's government confirmed hours later the death of the criminal boss, which occurred in Bolívar state, in the country's southeast.

  • Thursday, June 11th 2026 - 23:12 UTC

    Venezuela hands Shell a license for the cross-border Loran gas field shared with Trinidad

    Rodríguez described the award as a “historic step,” recalling that the field had remained “without development” for 23 years

    Venezuela on Thursday granted the British company Shell a license for a first phase of exploration and exploitation of the Loran gas field, which has seven reservoirs, six of them transboundary with Trinidad and Tobago. The signing was led by acting President Delcy Rodríguez at Miraflores Palace, the seat of the Venezuelan government.

  • Thursday, June 11th 2026 - 22:46 UTC

    Cuba accuses Rubio of tightening the US economic and energy blockade after Cupet sanction

    Rubio accused the Cuban government of using energy “as a weapon” and of diverting resources to enrich itself, a claim that, according to news agencies, he did not back with evidence.

    Cuba's government on Thursday accused US Secretary of State Marco Rubio of “further reinforcing” the economic and energy siege against the island, after Washington sanctioned the state company Unión Cuba-Petróleo (Cupet), which handles crude extraction, refining and production. Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez charged that Rubio resorts to “usual vulgar lies” to justify the measure.

  • Thursday, June 11th 2026 - 08:12 UTC

    US and Iran trade fire for a second night as Tehran says it has closed Hormuz

    Iran's General Staff declared Hormuz “closed” to all traffic and warned it would fire on any vessel, while the United States maintained that transit continues

    The United States and Iran traded fire for a second consecutive night, in what amounts to a more dangerous phase of the war in the Persian Gulf and raises the prospect of a return to open hostilities. As US forces again struck Iranian targets, the Revolutionary Guard said it had hit bases with a US presence in the region, and Iran's General Staff announced the “absolute” closure of the Strait of Hormuz. President Donald Trump threatened new strikes on Thursday if Tehran does not accept his conditions for peace.

  • Wednesday, June 10th 2026 - 13:52 UTC

    US launches strikes against Iran in retaliation for the downing of an Apache helicopter

    The strikes come amid a week of heightened regional tension

    The United States launched a series of strikes against Iran on Tuesday in retaliation for the downing of a US Apache helicopter over the Strait of Hormuz, Central Command (Centcom) said. The action marks a sharp escalation that deepens doubts over the ceasefire in place since April 8 and over the peace negotiations that President Donald Trump says are within reach.

  • Monday, June 8th 2026 - 23:01 UTC

    Trump interested in buying Chagos Islands with the strategic Diego Garcia air base

    Previous legislation to hand the islands to Mauritius was shelved in April after the US removed its support of the deal.

    The US president Donald Trump is considering a plan to buy the Chagos Islands from Mauritius amid stalled plans from the UK to cede sovereignty of the territory, the Telegraph reported over the weekend.

  • Sunday, June 7th 2026 - 21:24 UTC

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

    “I am going to call Bibi right now and tell him not to retaliate. Each of them had their moment: Israel had its strike, and Iran had its strike. We don't need another one,” Trump said

    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.