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Montevideo, August 16th 2026 - 06:00 UTC

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  • Monday, July 20th 2026 - 19:51 UTC

    Rubio says talks on Venezuela's democratic transition will begin in early August

    “I believe the first official conversations will begin the first week of August,” Rubio said at a news conference at Andrews Air Force Base

    U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Monday that talks to begin a democratic transition in Venezuela will start in early August. Rubio, who leads Washington's relationship with Caracas, said a group representing the National Assembly elected in 2015 —the last one the United States recognizes as legitimate— met with the interim government and agreed to establish a forum for reconciliation talks and to begin the transition process.

  • Monday, July 20th 2026 - 00:47 UTC

    Spain crowned world champions with 1-0 extra-time win over Argentina in the final

    Photo: EPA/EFE/RONALD WITTEK

    Spain were crowned world champions for the second time in their history by beating Argentina 1-0 in extra time in the final played on Sunday at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey. The winning goal came in the 106th minute, after a cross from Pedro Porro that Nico Williams headed on and that, according to the match report, Ferran Torres finished to settle a game clearly dominated by the Spanish side.

  • Sunday, July 19th 2026 - 23:05 UTC

    Trump takes center stage at the World Cup final, presenting Spain's trophy and holding it beforehand

    The episode fits into the close relationship between Trump and Infantino, which has run through much of the tournament

    US President Donald Trump was one of the central figures off the pitch at the 2026 World Cup final, co-hosting alongside FIFA President Gianni Infantino the trophy presentation to Spain, champions after beating Argentina 1-0 in extra time at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey. Trump, who watched the match from the VIP box with his wife, Melania, also held the original trophy before kickoff, in images that circulated widely on social media.

  • Sunday, July 19th 2026 - 23:00 UTC

    ICE kills a Colombian and a Mexican in operations where they weren't the target, officials say

    Mexican national Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, 52, who had lived in Houston for three decades, had died on July 7, at a traffic stop in that city

    Two Latin American migrants were shot dead by agents of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) within a week, in operations in which, as federal authorities and lawmakers acknowledged, neither was the intended target. The deaths revived protests and calls for accountability over President Donald Trump's immigration policy.

  • Sunday, July 19th 2026 - 17:43 UTC

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

    “The war I want to wage with him is a war of narrative, a war of truth. I want to show the world who is telling the truth in this tariff war between Brazil and the United States,” Lula said

    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

    “All I did was ask for a review because I didn't think it was a foul,” Trump said at the time

    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

    The president highlighted what he described as progress by Argentina's Foreign Ministry and a rapprochement with the United States to revive negotiations

    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

    The address came less than four months before the November midterm elections, in which polls point to an unfavorable outlook for the Republican Party

    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

    In New York, the Emergency Management Office urged people to avoid outdoor activity, while city workers asked passersby to leave the parks

    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

    Judge Darrin P. Gayles issued a default judgment on Tuesday against Nicolás Maduro, Saab, five other Venezuelan officials, and the so-called Cartel of the Suns

    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.