South America

The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Friday night lifted the nationwide ground stop it had ordered in the afternoon, after some four and a half hours of airspace closure that left thousands of flights cancelled. Donald Trump’s administration blamed the failure on overloaded, outdated analogue telecommunications equipment at air traffic control […]

The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Friday ordered a halt to all flights departing from the country’s airports “due to extraordinary circumstances and for reasons of safety”, following a communications failure affecting air traffic control centres. Thousands of flights were cancelled or delayed and hundreds of thousands of passengers were […]

Microsoft said on Friday its services were recovering after a global outage that began on Thursday afternoon, European time, and for hours affected millions of users in more than 70 countries, including public bodies in Australia and Japan. The company ruled out a cyberattack.

Chile’s Foreign Minister Francisco Pérez Mackenna has ruled out asking Argentina for authorisation for the voyage of the Chilean vessel Danstar, which plans to reopen the commercial route between Punta Arenas and the Falklands in December, invoking the right of innocent passage recognised by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. […]

Pope Leo XIV met some 52,000 young people at Lima’s National Stadium on Thursday, according to El País, in the last event of his stay in the Peruvian capital before travelling to Chiclayo, the diocese he led as bishop. “Someone told me that Peru needs hope. You are the sign of hope,” he told them, to applause.

A former Royal Marine has travelled to Argentina to return to an Argentine veteran the helmet he took during the Battle of Mount Harriet in the 1982 Falklands War, in a reunion filmed for a documentary, BBC Sussex reported.

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will visit Madrid on Monday, November 16, to meet Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, less than two weeks before the snap general election on November 29, in which Sánchez is seeking re-election. It will be Lula’s first visit to Spain since he won Brazil’s election on October 25.

Paraguay’s Superintendent of Banks, Holger Insfrán, was arrested on Thursday as part of the investigation into the collapse of Ueno Bank, which has already led to the pre-trial detention of former President Santiago Peña and former Central Bank president Carlos Carvallo, according to prosecution sources cited by the EFE news agency. The charges against […]

Pope Leo XIV arrived in Lima on Wednesday, the final stage of his South American tour, and in his first speech in Peru, the country where he lived for some twenty years and whose nationality he holds, called for diplomacy that “respects international law” in the face of wars and for the country’s past events “to be dealt with justice and […]

The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea will announce on Saturday, November 28, its decision on Argentina’s request for provisional measures to halt the Sea Lion oil project north of the Falklands, after two days of hearings concluded in Hamburg on Wednesday. Argentina presented final requests that were more specific than its initial ones, and […]