South America
South America
Fri, 03 Jul 2026 07:58:00 GMTMercosur backs Argentina days after Islanders' UN appeal for self-determination
Within the span of a week, the two opposing positions in the Falklands dispute were laid out clearly in two separate arenas: South American governments' backing for Argentina's sovereignty claim, and the defense of self-determi...
Fri, 03 Jul 2026 07:53:00 GMTMilei abolishes the Interior Ministry, expanding Santilli's role ahead of Congress talks
Argentina's government abolished the Interior Ministry and transferred its functions to the cabinet chief's office, headed by Diego Santilli, through an emergency decree published on Thursday in the Official Gazette. The measur...
Fri, 03 Jul 2026 07:47:00 GMTSnow blankets Mar del Plata as a record polar cold wave grips Argentina
The seaside city of Mar del Plata, one of the main tourist destinations on Argentina's Atlantic coast, woke up covered in snow on Thursday, an unusual sight for a temperate-climate city that became the most widely shared image ...
Thu, 02 Jul 2026 22:12:00 GMTArgentine ex-official Insaurralde seeks to bar the cash-stacks video from his graft case
The former cabinet chief of Buenos Aires province and ex-mayor of Lomas de Zamora, Martín Insaurralde, asked the courts not to use as evidence the video in which his ex-wife, television host Jesica Cirio, appears alongside sta...
Thu, 02 Jul 2026 15:32:00 GMTA multinational rescue frees Hernán, trapped eight days under Venezuela's quake rubble
A 43-year-old Venezuelan security guard, Hernán Gil, was rescued alive on Thursday after eight days trapped under the rubble of a building that collapsed in Catia La Mar, in La Guaira state, during the twin earthquake that str...