Chile Merges 25 Social Programmes Into Nine After Kast Vowed No Cuts
Chile's government has discontinued 25 social programmes and folded them into nine. President Kast had promised in the campaign to...
September 26, 2026Section
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Bolivia Reviews 67 State Companies for Closure as Losses Mount
Bolivia has made winding up loss-making state companies a priority. Sixty-seven firms are under review, and unions have declared an...
September 26, 2026
Milei’s Team Looks Set to Accept Senate Terms on Central Bank Reform
Argentina's government looks set to accept the Senate's rewrite of the central bank reform, because reversing it in Deputies needs...
September 26, 2026
Brazil Gives Bettors Until 5 October to Empty Betting Accounts
Brazil's betting ban sets a 5 October cash-out deadline, gives Congress 120 days to vote and leaves a tax hole...
September 26, 2026
Lula Extends Brazil’s Diesel Subsidy Eight Days Before the Election
Brazil's finance ministry extended the diesel subsidy for another 30 days, eight days before the first round, and the opposition...
September 26, 2026
Petrobras Nears US$2.3 Billion Platform Deal With Malaysia’s Yinson
Petrobras is negotiating with Yinson over a US$2.3 billion floating platform for the ageing Albacora field, a test of its...
September 26, 2026
Brazil’s Top Court Finds Hidden AI Commands Inside a Legal Appeal
Brazil's Supreme Court says a lawyer hid AI commands in an appeal, while a governing-party deputy asks the same court...
September 26, 2026
Benin Explained: Wadagni’s New Era, the Cotonou Port Boom and the Jihadist North
Benin explained: President Wadagni’s seven-year term, 8.1% growth, a US$24.6 billion economy, the Cotonou port, cotton and the jihadist threat...
September 26, 2026
USA & Canada Intelligence Brief
USA & Canada Intelligence Brief for 26 September 2026: a country that no longer argues about its own economy as...
September 26, 2026
Europe Intelligence Brief
Europe Intelligence Brief for 26 September 2026: Stockholm waits for someone to blink two weeks after voting, Athens grieves in...
September 26, 2026
Asia Intelligence Brief
Asia Intelligence Brief for 26 September 2026: Islamabad pays for a march that was called off after sealing the capital...
September 26, 2026
Africa Intelligence Brief
Africa Intelligence Brief for 26 September 2026: Dakar says out loud what it used to whisper as the president explains...
September 26, 2026
Brazil Bans Online Betting, Sites Shut After 5 October
Brazil's online betting ban is in force: Provisional Measure 1,394 bars deposits, sports bets included, and sites close after 5...
September 26, 2026
Burkina Faso Explained: Traoré’s Junta, the Jihadist War, Gold and What to Watch
Burkina Faso explained: who runs the junta, how record gold output fuels the economy, why it broke with France, and...
September 26, 2026
Who Is William Ruto? Kenya’s President, the ICC Case, Gen-Z Protests and 2027
Who is William Ruto? Kenya's president explained: his rise, the ICC case, the 2024 Gen-Z tax protests, the IMF and...
September 26, 2026
Shakira Plays Egypt’s Giza Pyramids on 28 November
Shakira Egypt concert 2026: Saturday 28 November, 8 p.m. Cairo time, on the Giza plateau. Entry tickets are reported at...
September 26, 2026
Fatboy Slim Nairobi: Kenya Show Moves to MUZE Open Air at Wilson Airport, 11 December
Fatboy Slim Nairobi 2026 is set for Friday 11 December at MUZE Open Air, Hangar 16, Wilson Airport in Kenya,...
September 26, 2026
Detty December Fest Lagos Runs 18 to 30 December in Nigeria, Opening Night from ₦50,000
Detty December Fest Lagos runs 18 to 30 December 2026 in Nigeria, with Wizkid on opening night and entry from...
September 26, 2026
Kehlani Plays Pretoria 15 December and Cape Town 17 December
Kehlani plays Pretoria on Tuesday, 15 December and Cape Town on Thursday, 17 December. Tickets from about US$48, times and...
September 26, 2026
Leon Bridges South Africa: Soul Singer Plays Johannesburg on 28 and Kirstenbosch on 30 November
Leon Bridges South Africa 2026: the soul singer plays Marks Park in Johannesburg on 28 November and Kirstenbosch in Cape...
September 26, 2026