MercoPress this week received a letter from reader Michael (“Ted”) Jones, a farmer at Head of the Bay —a settlement located in the immediate vicinity of the site where British forces landed on 21 May ...

A painting by US Abstract Expressionist painter Jackson Pollock sold for a record US$181.2 million (€156.2 million) with fees ...

The Swedish government this week announced a deal to purchase four new frigates for its navy from France’s Naval Group.

Chilean executive Germán Naranjo Maldini has been held since Friday 15 May at the Guarulhos prison on the outskirts of São ...

Argentine footballer Lionel Messi, 38, has crossed the USD 1 billion net worth threshold and joined the exclusive group of ...

Uruguay this week filled 63% of the annual zero-tariff rice quota granted by the European Union to Mercosur, in the first ...

Two humpback whales have been sighted in separate breeding grounds off Australia and Brazil, the first time scientists have ...

A farmer in the Colombian region of Antioquía region of Colombia has unearthed an astonishing US$600 million in cash. The money was found buried in rusty metal drums while the rural worker, who ...

Hundreds of Brazilians camped overnight on beach chairs, plastic benches and tarps outside an immigration center in Ciudad del Este, on the border with Brazil, to secure a spot in a Paraguayan ...

The Argentine Air Force (FAA) acquired in 2025 an Embraer ERJ-140LR aircraft for USD 4.085 million, nearly double the price ...

Graham Bound, who was born and raised in the Falkland Islands, is widely known as a journalist and writer. Among his achievements, he founded the weekly newspaper Penguin News and he has authored ...

Sulivan Shipping Services Ltd and Penguin Travel attending the Marketplace Networking Event. Reaffirming the close relationship and collaboration members from the Falkland Islands Development ...