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Monday, May 4th 2026 - 01:39 UTC
Orsi follows Milei and Kast aboard USS Nimitz as opposition alleges unconstitutionality

Uruguayan President Yamandú Orsi visited the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz of the United States Navy in international waters off the Uruguayan coast on Saturday, in a new chapter of the Southern Seas 2026 regional deployment, following the steps of Argentine President Javier Milei and Chilean President José Antonio Kast, who had toured the same vessel in previous weeks. The invitation was extended by the US ambassador in Montevideo, Lou Rinaldi, and the delegation was transported from Carrasco Air Base No. 1 to the carrier's deck aboard a Grumman C-2 Greyhound military aircraft of the US Armed Forces.
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Sunday, May 3rd 2026 - 09:59 UTC
Trump threatens to take Cuba 'almost immediately' after tightening sanctions on the regime

US President Donald Trump said on Friday that his country would take Cuba “almost immediately,” in remarks made during a private event at the Forum Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, hours after signing an executive order substantially expanding economic sanctions against the Havana regime. The president's words, though framed in colloquial tone, considerably escalate bilateral tensions and open a new chapter in US policy toward Miguel Díaz-Canel's government.
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Friday, May 1st 2026 - 17:12 UTC
RAF 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 published by The Times that reaffirm London's military stance on the archipelago following the leak of an internal Pentagon memorandum that considered reviewing US historic support for British sovereignty over the islands. Smyth stressed that the RAF's role in defending the territory was “non-negotiable,” a formulation that reflects the hardening of British military rhetoric in the latest phase of the diplomatic crisis.
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Friday, May 1st 2026 - 12:12 UTC
Pentagon seals artificial intelligence agreements with seven tech giants

The United States Department of War announced the signing of agreements with seven leading technology companies to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) tools into classified operational environments. The contracts, which include SpaceX, OpenAI, Google, NVIDIA, Reflection, Microsoft, and Amazon Web Services, seek to consolidate Washington's military technological leadership.
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Friday, May 1st 2026 - 11:13 UTC
Caracas and Washington launch direct flights after seven years and sign two oil deals

The United States and Venezuela inaugurated on Thursday the first direct air connection between the two countries since 2019 and signed two new energy agreements, in a day the White House described as a substantive advance in the “economic revitalization” phase of the three-stage plan designed by President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio to reorganize the bilateral relationship following the capture of former president Nicolás Maduro by US troops on January 3.
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Thursday, April 30th 2026 - 13:09 UTC
US intervention forces end to decade of statistical opacity at Venezuela's Central Bank

The Central Bank of Venezuela (BCV) has begun systematically publishing economic indicators that had been held under wraps for at least a decade, in an institutional shift driven by the US military intervention that culminated on January 3 with the capture of former president Nicolás Maduro and by the subsequent reconfiguration of Venezuela's financial system under Washington's oversight. The updating of historical series on the central bank's website now makes it possible to learn for the first time in years that monthly inflation reached 32% in January, 14.6% in February and 13.1% in March, while the year-on-year figure stood at 649.5% at the end of the first quarter.
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Thursday, April 30th 2026 - 03:39 UTC
US troops train in Argentina with USS Nimitz in Atlantic Dagger exercise

US troops began joint maneuvers on Tuesday with their Argentine counterparts as part of the “Atlantic Dagger” exercise, one of the broadest joint military operations between the two countries in decades, alongside the deployment of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz in South Atlantic waters. The simultaneous presence of special forces on Argentine soil and a US naval strike group off the Atlantic coast forms part of a single package authorized by President Javier Milei through Necessity and Urgency Decree 264/2026, after Congress failed to take up a 2025 bill to enable the entry of foreign troops.
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Wednesday, April 29th 2026 - 13:52 UTC
Trump tells King Charles: “Americans have had no closer friends than the British”

On the second day of his state visit to the United States, speaking before Congress, where he was repeatedly acclaimed with loud applause, King Charles III stressed the value and importance of the “indispensable” UK and US partnership.
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Wednesday, April 29th 2026 - 02:09 UTC
King Charles avoids direct Iran reference and hails 'most consequential alliance' between UK and US

King Charles III delivered a 28-minute address on Tuesday to a joint session of the United States Congress in which he hailed the “special relationship” between London and Washington as “one of the most consequential alliances in human history,” in a speech that avoided any direct reference to the war against Iran or the Epstein case, two issues that have strained transatlantic ties in recent weeks. The address marked the centerpiece of the monarch's state visit to Washington, held in the framework of the 250th anniversary of American independence.
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Tuesday, April 28th 2026 - 17:42 UTC
King Charles prepares speech on 'reconciliation and renewal' to US Congress after White House welcome

King Charles III is preparing to deliver an address to a joint session of the US Congress at 3:00 p.m. local time on Tuesday, in which he will frame “reconciliation and renewal” as the defining themes of the bilateral relationship between London and Washington 250 years after American independence. The speech, expected to be one of the centerpieces of his state visit, comes after a heavily symbolic military welcome at the White House, where President Donald Trump extended to the monarch the highest protocol honor accorded by the United States to a visiting head of state.
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