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From Montevideo to Luján: Leo XIV’s tour of Uruguay and Argentina

“It fills me with joy to return to the continent where I have lived so many moments of my life,” wrote the pontiff, who was born in Chicago and spent almost two decades as a missionary in PeruPope Leo XIV will begin a tour of South America in Montevideo on November 6 that will take him to Uruguay, Argentina and Peru, with open-air Masses, meetings with Presidents Yamandú Orsi and Javier Milei, and events with young people, workers and prisoners. His stop in Argentina, from November 8 to 11, will be the first papal visit to the country since John Paul II’s in April 1987.


Specialised prosecutors appeal Milei’s dismissal in the $LIBRA case and seek to reopen it

According to the prosecutors, the investigation is not exhaustedArgentina’s Office of Administrative Investigations, a specialised prosecution service for crimes committed by public officials, has appealed the dismissal of charges against President Javier Milei, his sister and presidential chief of staff Karina Milei, and nine other defendants in the case over the $LIBRA cryptocurrency, and asked for the investigation to be reopened, arguing that key evidence is still missing.


Hackers steal US$6.3 billion in crypto from Binance in the sector’s biggest-ever heist

The Secret Service, the federal agency responsible for financial crimes, said it was “working around the clock” with the private sector “to identify, freeze, trace, and recover” the fundsHackers stole about US$6.3 billion in cryptocurrency from Binance, the world’s largest digital asset exchange, in the biggest theft in the sector’s history, which the US Secret Service is investigating with other agencies. Blockchain analytics firms point to a hacking group linked to North Korea, though there has been no official attribution.


Leo XIV becomes the first pope to vote in a US election

The Chicago-born pope voted “as a citizen” and as he has done “whenever he has had the opportunity”, according to a statement from the Holy See press officePope Leo XIV has voted by mail in the US midterm elections to be held on November 3, making him the first pontiff to take part in an election in that country, the Vatican said on Friday.


Venezuela names Oliver Blanco, a former opposition aide, as foreign minister

A graduate in International Studies, Blanco was an aide to Henry Ramos Allup, a leader of the opposition Democratic Action party, when he presided over the National Assembly elected in 2015Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez has appointed Oliver Blanco, a 35-year-old diplomat who began his political career alongside a veteran opposition leader, as foreign minister in a reshuffle of her government’s international team. Blanco replaces Félix Plasencia, whom Rodríguez has tasked with moving to the United Kingdom to recover Venezuelan gold held at the Bank of England.


 

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