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Indonesia's sports communities no longer depend on one venue or one broadcast.

The United States has withdrawn all the bombers it had deployed at RAF Fairford, in western England, a week after the incident near the base that British counter-terrorism police are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.

The president of the Falkland Islands Chamber of Commerce, Mike Summers, has defended reopening trade with Chile's Magallanes region despite Argentina's campaign against economic activity linked to the archipelago, and warned that this week's business mee…

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.

Argentine unions linked to the fishing, maritime and port industries have complained bitterly to the International Transport Workers Federation against a workshop on the Shortfin Squid (Illex Argentinus) organized by OPPC3, in Vigo with the suppot of the…

Argentina's government has unveiled a citizenship-by-investment programme that will allow foreigners to obtain an Argentine passport in exchange for a non-refundable US$350,000 contribution to the Treasury or the purchase of US$800,000 in a seven-year gov…

Uruguay ranked third in Latin America and the Caribbean in 2025 for international air passengers per inhabitant, according to Airports Council International figures presented in Lima this week, despite its small share of the region's total traffic.

By Gwynne Dyer - “Flávio Bolsonaro is Trump’s candidate and what Trump wants is to colonize Brazil, take our riches, steal our future and leave us in the dust,” claims the latest video released by President Luiz Inácio ‘Lula’ da Silva’s re-election campai…

Brazil holds the first round of its presidential election on Sunday, with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Senator Flávio Bolsonaro tied in a prospective runoff and a narrow band of undecided voters, along with abstention, able to tip the result.

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 pr…

Brazilian broadcaster Globo on Thursday cancelled, an hour before it was due to start, the last presidential debate scheduled before Sunday's first round, following a series of court rulings and the absence of both President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and…

The sea ice surrounding Antarctica reached its third-lowest winter maximum this year since satellite records began in 1979, according to the US National Snow and Ice Data Center.

British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband hosted Cheryl Roberts, a member of the Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly, in London on Thursday, and reiterated to her that the United Kingdom “stands shoulder to shoulder” with the archipelago's residents and “re…

British counter-terrorism police on Thursday arrested a 25-year-old man with dual British and Iranian nationality in London on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts, in connection with Sunday's incident near RAF Fairford, an airbase in western England used

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.

Business people from Punta Arenas, in southern Chile, and from the Falklands held 822 business meetings over two days, at an event the organisers described as a success and which serves as a prelude to the reopening of a direct sea route between the Chile…

Uruguay's Foreign Minister Mario Lubetkin argued that the Falklands dispute has changed in nature with oil exploration: one thing, he said, is "the invaded island" and "the fight against colonialism", and another is "when a lot of money is taken from ther…

An opinion column published on Wednesday in the British weekly The Spectator likens Argentine President Javier Milei's campaign over the Falklands to that of dictator Leopoldo Galtieri in 1982, with the difference, its author argues, that the current gove…

The British government has rejected Argentina's decision to initiate international arbitration over the Sea Lion oil project and said Buenos Aires' campaign over the Falklands "raises questions about Argentina's reliability as a partner for the United Kin…

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.

A pilot on a Flydubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv stabbed another pilot in the cockpit on Wednesday and, according to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, "apparently tried to crash the plane".

The marine accident investigation report refers to the loss of Argos Georgia, 23 July 2024, which occurred approximately 190 nautical miles east of Port Stanley.

Falkland Islands Member of the Legislative Assembly Cheryl Roberts met and talked Monday evening with Prime Minister Andy Burnham and members of his ministerial cabinet in one of several receptions at the current Labor Party Annual Conference at Liverpool.

Argentine President Javier Milei will lead Argentina Week in Paris from Wednesday, a gathering aimed at attracting European investment, with its main day on Thursday at the headquarters of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, ending…

A remark by Brazilian President and re-election candidate Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva about men's reluctance to undergo prostate examinations has sparked a controversy in the final stretch of the campaign, after opposition figures linked it to child sexual…

A false report that presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro backed stripping Our Lady of Aparecida of her title as Brazil's patron saint has produced contradictory rulings from three Supreme Federal Court justices, a clash with the Catholic bishops' confe…