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Lion on the Pampas: India and Argentina forge a strategic bond

Lion on the Pampas: India and Argentina forge a strategic bond

In Buenos Aires, a hand-etched silver lion on a fuchsite stone gifted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to President Javier Milei symbolises the rare and resolute convergence of two distant powers. Set against the vibrant backdrop of the Argentine...

Senator Whitehouse delivers 300th “Time to Wake Up” climate speech, calls for fight against “shadow government”

Senator Whitehouse delivers 300th “Time to Wake Up” climate speech, calls for fight against “shadow government”

U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse delivered his 300th “Time to Wake Up” speech on the Senate floor last night, marking more than a decade of urging Congress to address climate change while issuing his strongest warning yet about what he called a...

Haiti: Setback for LGBT+ rights in the Caribbean

Haiti: Setback for LGBT+ rights in the Caribbean

New penal code allows anti-LGBT+ discrimination without penalty Haiti has adopted a new penal code that strips LGBT+ people of protections against discrimination that they would have enjoyed under the previous draft of the law. Adoption of the new...

Tourism Minister hails Vincy Mas 2025 a huge success

Tourism Minister hails Vincy Mas 2025 a huge success

Minister of Tourism and Culture, Carlos James has described Vincy Mas 2025 a huge success as activities for the festival continue to wind down. He made this statement during today’s Face to Face programme on NBC Radio. Minister James said...

Dollar Edges Lower As Forex Traders Watch Trump’s Tariff Moves, Brazilian Real Dips To 1-Month Low

Dollar Edges Lower As Forex Traders Watch Trump’s Tariff Moves, Brazilian Real Dips To 1-Month Low

The U.S. Dollar Index (DXY), which closed Wednesday’s session marginally lower, fell slightly early Thursday as President Donald Trump kept up the pressure on the country’s major trading partners. The DXY measures the performance of the greenback...

Trump pledges 50% tariff on goods from Brazil

Trump pledges 50% tariff on goods from Brazil

President Donald Trump said he is considering 50% tariffs on imports from Brazil over the country’s prosecution of its former president, Jair Bolsonaro Trump accused the Brazilian government of conducting a “witch-hunt” against Bolsonaro, who is...

Obesity in Latin America: effective responses value lived experience

Obesity in Latin America: effective responses value lived experience

María Eugenia Anselmi, endocrinologist and lived experience consultant1, Johanna Ralston, chief executive2, Svetlana Axelrod, independent expert3 1public representative, Hospital Universitario Austral, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2public...

Coffee, orange juice prices may spike under Trump’s Brazil tariffs

Coffee, orange juice prices may spike under Trump’s Brazil tariffs

REUTERS/GARY CAMERON/FILE PHOTO Various brands of orange and grapefruit juices are seen at the Safeway store in Wheaton, Md., in February 2015. U.S. consumers face sharp price rises on food staples like coffee and orange juice if the Trump...

Indian Man Made Fibre Can Meet Demand For Cost Affective Apparel In Africa, SE Asia & Latin America

Indian Man Made Fibre Can Meet Demand For Cost Affective Apparel In Africa, SE Asia & Latin America

(MENAFN- KNN India) New Delhi, Jul 8 (KNN) The growing middle-income population across Africa, Southeast Asia, and Latin America is driving demand for climate-resilient, cost-effective, and performance-driven apparel. A recent knowledge paper by...

San Miguel, Ensenada and more: These are the five new airports Mexico is planning to build

San Miguel, Ensenada and more: These are the five new airports Mexico is planning to build

The Mexican airport services agency and state authorities are planning the construction of five new airports in the coming years. These projects seek to boost economic, tourism, and logistical development in different regions of the country and...

Trump threatens Brazil with 50 percent tariffs; Brazil promises to respond in kind

Trump threatens Brazil with 50 percent tariffs; Brazil promises to respond in kind

U.S. President Donald Trump has sent a letter to Brazil President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva that threatens the country with a 50 percent tariff as of 1 August over claims the country was treating former President Jair Bolsonaro unfairly. The...

Terrorism Financing: EU Parliament Confirms Algeria’s Inclusion on List of High-Risk Countries

Terrorism Financing: EU Parliament Confirms Algeria’s Inclusion on List of High-Risk Countries

Rabat – The European Parliament validated Algeria’s inclusion on the list of high-risk countries regarding terrorism financing and money laundering. A statement from the European Commission announced today that it has updated its list of high-risk...

Mexican court jails cartel gunmen for 141 years over killings, kidnappings

Mexican court jails cartel gunmen for 141 years over killings, kidnappings

A court in Mexico has sentenced ten gunmen from the Jalisco New Generation Cartel to 141 years each in prison for murder and kidnapping at what authorities described as a cartel training camp. The men were arrested last September during a military...

Watching a 'witch hunt': 5 things about Trump and Brazil's Bolsonaro

Watching a 'witch hunt': 5 things about Trump and Brazil's Bolsonaro

Both Trump and Bolsonaro are right-wing populists who lost re-election bids and faced criminal charges after leaving office. Both presidents experienced similar post-election unrest with supporters attacking government buildings. Trump has...

Border Patrol union chief blasts anti-masking proposal: 'Tone deaf politics'

Border Patrol union chief blasts anti-masking proposal: 'Tone deaf politics'

Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs said she’s aware of concerns from critics about ICE wearing masks, but said it’s ultimately up for Congress to decide on the VISIBLE Act at a news conference in Phoenix, Arizona. NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!...

Man busted with anti-government, anti-Trump documents after Texas ICE ambush suspect phone call, feds say

Man busted with anti-government, anti-Trump documents after Texas ICE ambush suspect phone call, feds say

Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Nancy Larson provides an update on the charges facing suspects accused of attacking a Texas ICE facility on ‘The Story.’ NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A man charged with...

Data Contradicts Trump, Shows U.S. Runs Trade Surplus with Brazil

Data Contradicts Trump, Shows U.S. Runs Trade Surplus with Brazil

Despite U.S. President Donald Trump’s claim that his country runs a trade deficit with Brazil, the numbers tell a different story. For 17 years, trade in goods between the two countries has favored the U.S., which exports more to Brazil than it...

My Week at the U.S.-Mexico Border: May 27-30

My Week at the U.S.-Mexico Border: May 27-30

Day 4: May 27 This morning we had more time to relax and just lay around after the walk yesterday – something I took full advantage of. After participating in our daily biblical reflection with Adams, Gallegos took us to the border wall to really...

Tension rise between El Salvador and Mexico over an intercepted plane carrying 427 kilograms of cocaine

Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele announced the recall of El Salvador’s ambassador to Mexico, Rosa Delmy Cañas, for consultations. His decision came following accusations by Mexico’s Security Minister Omar García Harfuch over a plane carrying 427...

‘The Gringo Hunters’ Netflix Review: Mexico’s Scathing Critique Of USA’s Illegal Immigrants

‘The Gringo Hunters’ Netflix Review: Mexico’s Scathing Critique Of USA’s Illegal Immigrants

Just because somebody is an undocumented immigrant doesn’t mean they are a criminal; let’s get that straight first. Criminals are criminals regardless of what they look like or where they are from. Countries that have anti-immigration policies are...

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