United States

• Thursday, April 30th 2026 - 13:09 UTC

  US intervention forces end to decade of statistical opacity at Venezuela's Central Bank

  

  The Central Bank of Venezuela (BCV) has begun systematically publishing economic indicators that had been held under wraps for at least a decade, in an institutional shift driven by the US military intervention that culminated on January 3 with the capture of former president Nicolás Maduro and by the subsequent reconfiguration of Venezuela's financial system under Washington's oversight. The updating of historical series on the central bank's website now makes it possible to learn for the first time in years that monthly inflation reached 32% in January, 14.6% in February and 13.1% in March, while the year-on-year figure stood at 649.5% at the end of the first quarter.

• Thursday, April 30th 2026 - 03:39 UTC

  US troops train in Argentina with USS Nimitz in Atlantic Dagger exercise

  

  US troops began joint maneuvers on Tuesday with their Argentine counterparts as part of the “Atlantic Dagger” exercise, one of the broadest joint military operations between the two countries in decades, alongside the deployment of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz in South Atlantic waters. The simultaneous presence of special forces on Argentine soil and a US naval strike group off the Atlantic coast forms part of a single package authorized by President Javier Milei through Necessity and Urgency Decree 264/2026, after Congress failed to take up a 2025 bill to enable the entry of foreign troops.

• Wednesday, April 29th 2026 - 13:52 UTC

  Trump tells King Charles: “Americans have had no closer friends than the British”

  

  On the second day of his state visit to the United States, speaking before Congress, where he was repeatedly acclaimed with loud applause, King Charles III stressed the value and importance of the “indispensable” UK and US partnership.

• Wednesday, April 29th 2026 - 02:09 UTC

  King Charles avoids direct Iran reference and hails 'most consequential alliance' between UK and US

  

  King Charles III delivered a 28-minute address on Tuesday to a joint session of the United States Congress in which he hailed the “special relationship” between London and Washington as “one of the most consequential alliances in human history,” in a speech that avoided any direct reference to the war against Iran or the Epstein case, two issues that have strained transatlantic ties in recent weeks. The address marked the centerpiece of the monarch's state visit to Washington, held in the framework of the 250th anniversary of American independence.

• Tuesday, April 28th 2026 - 17:42 UTC

  King Charles prepares speech on 'reconciliation and renewal' to US Congress after White House welcome

  

  King Charles III is preparing to deliver an address to a joint session of the US Congress at 3:00 p.m. local time on Tuesday, in which he will frame “reconciliation and renewal” as the defining themes of the bilateral relationship between London and Washington 250 years after American independence. The speech, expected to be one of the centerpieces of his state visit, comes after a heavily symbolic military welcome at the White House, where President Donald Trump extended to the monarch the highest protocol honor accorded by the United States to a visiting head of state.

• Tuesday, April 28th 2026 - 04:10 UTC

  Argentine VP tells islanders to 'go back to England' as US presses UK over F-16 jets

  

  The Falklands sovereignty dispute returned to the centre of the diplomatic agenda this week with two developments of immediate impact: comments by Argentine Vice President Victoria Villarruel demanding that islanders “go back to England” if they “feel English” — despite the fact that in the 2013 referendum islanders voted by a 99.8% majority to remain British — and a disclosure published by The Telegraph that the United States had pressured the British government to tolerate the delivery to Argentina of F-16 fighter jets sourced from allied territory.

• Monday, April 27th 2026 - 14:40 UTC

  Argentine economy ministry secretary resigns over seven undeclared properties in Miami

  

  Argentine Economy Minister Luis Caputo on Sunday accepted the resignation of Infrastructure Coordination Secretary Carlos Frugoni, following a media investigation that revealed the official failed to declare to Argentine tax authorities seven apartments in the state of Florida, acquired through two limited liability companies incorporated in Delaware. Frugoni, who had been in the post for just four months, now faces a complaint for alleged illicit enrichment and malicious omission in his asset declarations.

• Monday, April 27th 2026 - 06:03 UTC

  King Charles arrives in the US for a state visit marked by bilateral tensions over the Iran war

  

  King Charles III and Queen Camilla landed on Monday at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, beginning a four-day state visit to the United States — the most prominent of the current reign and the first by a British monarch in two decades. The tour coincides with the 250th anniversary of the US Declaration of Independence and unfolds at a particularly delicate moment for the “special relationship” between London and Washington, sharpened by tensions stemming from the war against Iran and a series of diplomatic disagreements that have accumulated in recent months.

• Saturday, April 25th 2026 - 16:40 UTC

  King Charles III and Camilla begin US visit Monday: meeting with Trump and will address Congress

  

  Beginning Monday 27 and until Thursday 30, King Charles III and Queen Camilla will be on a state visit to the United States, with engagements in Washington DC, New York and Virginia, which will include private meetings with President Donald Trump, addressing Congress and an agenda marking the 250th anniversary of US independence.

• Saturday, April 25th 2026 - 16:20 UTC

  Who’s arriving on Monday, the King of Australia or the British Monarch?

  

  US residents and children are usually not very illustrates about foreign countries, much less about flags so the District of Columbia, could be partially exonerated of the lack of knowledge. In effect DC, according to news reports, mistakenly placed several Australian flags ​instead of British flags near ‌the White House ahead of King Charles’ U.S. visit.