United States

• Sunday, July 19th 2026 - 17:43 UTC

  Lula asks Trump to explain 25% tariffs on Brazil, speaks of a “war of truth”

  

  Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva publicly called on his US counterpart, Donald Trump, to explain the reasons behind the 25% tariffs he imposed on most Brazilian products, a measure Brasília attributes to political rather than commercial motives. The levies, announced on July 15 by the Office of the US Trade Representative, will take effect on July 22.

• Friday, July 17th 2026 - 20:33 UTC

  Balogun says he thought it was “a joke” when FIFA suspended his red card after Trump call

  

  United States forward Folarin Balogun said he thought it was “a joke” when he was told FIFA had suspended the sanction for his red card, allowing him to play in the World Cup round-of-16 match against Belgium. “Two days before the Belgium match they told me I was allowed to play again, and for me it was unreal; at first I thought it was a joke,” the player said during a conversation with basketball star LeBron James at the Fanatics Fest in New York.

• Friday, July 17th 2026 - 10:13 UTC

  Milei hits out at Falklands “tantrums,” says he is “closer” to recovering the islands

  

  Argentina's president, Javier Milei, championed diplomacy as the path for the sovereignty claim over the Falklands and dismissed as “tantrums” certain reactions that followed the national team's victory over England in the World Cup semifinal, without specifying at whom the criticism was aimed.

• Friday, July 17th 2026 - 10:00 UTC

  Trump accuses China of meddling in 2020 election, though intelligence findings say otherwise

  

  US President Donald Trump accused China of interfering in the 2020 presidential election and of having the complicity of officials who, he said, concealed that information. He did so on Thursday night in a primetime address to the nation from the White House, announcing the declassification of documents that he claimed reveal vulnerabilities in the US electoral system.

• Friday, July 17th 2026 - 09:47 UTC

  Canada wildfire smoke blankets New York, Chicago and Detroit days before World Cup final

  

  A dense cloud of smoke from the hundreds of wildfires burning in Canada covered much of the US northeast and southern Canada on Thursday, sharply worsening air quality in cities such as New York, Chicago, Detroit, and Toronto. Health authorities advised residents to stay indoors, three days before New Jersey's MetLife Stadium hosts the World Cup final between Spain and Argentina.

• Wednesday, July 15th 2026 - 22:00 UTC

  Miami ruling links Maduro to “hostage diplomacy,” orders $314 million in damages

  

  A federal judge in Miami ordered $314 million in damages to be paid to three US citizens who were imprisoned in Venezuela, where they said they were tortured by intelligence services before being freed in a 2023 exchange with Washington for Colombian businessman Alex Saab.

• Tuesday, July 14th 2026 - 22:07 UTC

  US-backed talks between Venezuela's two parliaments to begin August 1

  

  The two legislative bodies vying for legitimacy in Venezuela will begin a joint working agenda on August 1, promoted by the United States, with the stated aim of moving toward a democratic reinstitutionalization of the country, more than six months after the capture of former President Nicolás Maduro.

• Tuesday, July 14th 2026 - 07:24 UTC

  Trump says US is investigating whether Iran stores drones in Cuba

  

  US President Donald Trump said on Monday that his government is investigating whether Iran is storing drones in Cuba and warned that Washington would act if their presence on the island is confirmed, though he framed the matter as a hypothesis that has not been verified.

• Tuesday, July 14th 2026 - 07:06 UTC

  Venezuela names its envoy to Washington as foreign minister in cabinet reshuffle

  

  Venezuela's acting president, Delcy Rodríguez, has appointed diplomat Félix Plasencia to head a new Ministry of Foreign Relations and Trade, merging the diplomatic and foreign trade portfolios. Plasencia had until now served as Venezuela's chief of mission in the United States, and replaces Yvan Gil, foreign minister since 2023, who moves to the Ministry of Science and Technology.

• Saturday, July 11th 2026 - 07:19 UTC

  Trump threatens Iran with '1,000 missiles' over alleged assassination plot

  

  US President Donald Trump warned that “1,000 missiles” are armed and aimed at Iran, ready to strike the country should Tehran attempt to assassinate him, in a message posted on his social network that raises tension with the Islamic Republic amid an already ongoing military escalation.