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Sat, 14 Mar 2026 03:45:00 GMTBolsonaro moved to intensive care with bronchopneumonia as family renews house arrest plea
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was admitted on Friday to the intensive care unit of Brasília’s DF Star hospital after being transferred from prison with high fever, low oxygen saturation, sweating and chills. The ...
Sat, 14 Mar 2026 01:54:00 GMTGlobal volatility hits Argentine assets as country risk edges back toward 600 points
Argentine assets ended the week under pressure, pulled lower by international volatility linked to the Middle East war, in a session marked by falling stocks and bonds, a higher country risk index and renewed oil-driven pressur...
Fri, 13 Mar 2026 16:26:00 GMTCuba confirms talks with the United States amid its deepest energy crisis in years
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel said on Friday that his government has recently held talks with U.S. officials, the first public acknowledgment of such bilateral contacts in more than a decade, as the island faces a severe f...
Fri, 13 Mar 2026 16:03:00 GMTUruguayan fugitive Sebastián Marset captured in Bolivia and placed in U.S. custody
Suspected Uruguayan drug trafficker Sebastián Marset was captured on Friday in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, in an operation that ends one of the Southern Cone’s longest and most visible manhunts. Paraguayan authorities ...
Fri, 13 Mar 2026 11:24:00 GMTIran exploits its asymmetric edge in Hormuz, narrowing the U.S. Navy’s room to act
Iran is shifting a key part of the war to the sea, where its conventional naval power is far weaker than that of the United States but where it still retains enough tools to disrupt global energy traffic. In the Strait of Hormu...