Argentina
Sat, 09 May 2026 22:32:00 GMTNahuel Gallo describes torture and a sardonic "you're off to Disney" during Venezuela detention
Argentine gendarme Nahuel Gallo, who spent 448 days detained in Venezuela under the regime of Nicolás Maduro, described in a televised interview the torture inflicted on him at the El Rodeo I prison and revealed the phrase his...
Sat, 09 May 2026 05:49:00 GMTArgentine court reinstates full force of Milei's labor reform
An Argentine court on Friday lifted the precautionary injunction that had suspended 82 of the 218 articles of the labor reform pushed by President Javier Milei, restoring the full force of one of the most contested laws in the ...
Fri, 08 May 2026 15:40:00 GMTUshuaia landfill scrutinized in cruise ship hantavirus outbreak probe
Seven kilometers from downtown Ushuaia, the municipal landfill serving Argentina's southernmost city has become one of the focal points of the epidemiological investigation into the hantavirus outbreak aboard the MV Hondius cru...
Tue, 05 May 2026 18:28:00 GMTBullrich vows that Argentina's government will capture former guerrilla Apablaza for extradition to Chile
Argentine senator and former Security Minister Patricia Bullrich said in Santiago on Tuesday that Javier Milei's government maintains "the firm determination" to locate Chilean former guerrilla Galvarino Sergio Apablaza, on the...
Tue, 05 May 2026 02:07:00 GMTLawmaker requests Adorni's arrest over alleged witness tampering in illicit enrichment case
Argentine Congresswoman Marcela Pagano on Monday requested the arrest of Cabinet Chief Manuel Adorni, accusing him of having pressured contractor Matías Tabar prior to his judicial testimony regarding the renovation works carr...
Tue, 05 May 2026 02:02:00 GMTContractor testifies Adorni paid $245,000 in cash to remodel his country home; government rejects the figure
Contractor Matías Tabar testified on Monday before Argentine federal courts that Cabinet Chief Manuel Adorni paid him $245,000 in cash for renovation works carried out at the residence in the Indio Cua gated community, in Exal...
Tue, 05 May 2026 01:34:00 GMTWhy the Falkland Islands are British
By Graham Pascoe - On April 24 it was reported in the Guardian and the Telegraph in London that President Trump has asked the Pentagon to “review Britain’s claim to the Falkland Islands”, as a possible “punishment” fo...
Mon, 04 May 2026 01:45:00 GMTThree dead in hantavirus outbreak aboard polar cruise ship from Ushuaia bound for Cape Verde
The World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed three deaths on Sunday aboard the polar cruise ship MV Hondius from a hantavirus outbreak, a disease typically transmitted through rodents. The vessel, operated by the Dutch company...
Fri, 01 May 2026 17:12:00 GMTRAF chief calls Falklands defence 'non-negotiable' as Rubio plays down Pentagon memo
The head of Britain's Royal Air Force (RAF), Air Chief Marshal Sir Harv Smyth, said on Friday that the United Kingdom remains “on high alert and ready” to defend the Falklands “at a moment's notice,” in remarks publishe...
Fri, 01 May 2026 06:40:00 GMTAfter 25 years of negotiation, the Mercosur-EU agreement takes effect this Friday
The association agreement between Mercosur and the European Union (EU) enters provisionally into force on Friday May 1, after more than a quarter-century of negotiations, in what constitutes one of the world's most ambitious tr...