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Friday, October 9th 2026 - 07:35 UTC
US charges Maduro and Cilia Flores with torture and repression in Venezuela

US federal prosecutors on Thursday brought new torture and repression charges against former Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, adding to the drug trafficking and narco-terrorism case both face in a New York court. The same day, the judge denied a request by Flores for house arrest on health grounds.
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Wednesday, October 7th 2026 - 08:07 UTC
Trump promises payments to voters ahead of midterms dominated by the cost of living

US President Donald Trump has announced a series of direct payments to various groups of citizens in recent weeks and has promised US$5,000 to every adult if Republicans keep control of Congress in the November 3 midterm elections, in which the cost of living is shaping up as the central issue.
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Monday, October 5th 2026 - 01:35 UTC
US withdraws all its bombers from Britain's RAF Fairford base

The United States has withdrawn all the bombers it had deployed at RAF Fairford, in western England, a week after the incident near the base that British counter-terrorism police are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.
Sunday, October 4th 2026 - 08:57 UTC
Trump declines to back Lula or Flávio Bolsonaro as Brazil votes

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.
Saturday, October 3rd 2026 - 06:56 UTC
Halliburton rules out Sea Lion after Argentina raised criminal and civil enforcement

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.
Thursday, October 1st 2026 - 22:20 UTC
Christa Pike survives a failed execution in Tennessee and remains in critical condition

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.
Wednesday, September 30th 2026 - 19:10 UTC
Trump and six tech companies sign a voluntary artificial intelligence safety accord

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”.
Monday, September 28th 2026 - 06:01 UTC
Britain has just received a painful reminder that nobody respects weakness

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.
Friday, September 25th 2026 - 10:41 UTC
“The UN has more reason to exist every day”, Uruguay's president said two days after Milei

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.
Friday, September 25th 2026 - 09:37 UTC
Trump and Xi end the state visit with the trade truce extended and no substantive deals

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.