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Stories for August 2023

  • Monday, August 21st 2023 - 11:01 UTC

    Dramatic report on world water resources, four billion people affected

    Water demand worldwide is more than twice what it was in 1960, and throughout the globe, demand is exceeding supply.

    One-fourth of the planet’s population in 25 countries experiences extremely high water stress annually, using nearly all of their available water supply on a regular basis, according to new data from the World Resources Institute (WRI)’s Aqueduct Water Risk.

  • Monday, August 21st 2023 - 10:43 UTC

    World scientists call for more research on the Southern Ocean and climate change

    An Iceberg in the Southern Ocean.

    Three hundred scientists from 25 nations have met this week in the Antarctic gateway city of Hobart, Australia, for the first-ever international conference of the Southern Ocean Observing System, SOOS.

  • Monday, August 21st 2023 - 10:37 UTC

    Cuban leader reaffirms support for Angola

    Díaz-Canel's next stop will be the BRICS Summit in South Africa

    Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel ratified this weekend during an official trip to Luanda his country's support to the Angolan government, it was reported.

  • Monday, August 21st 2023 - 10:19 UTC

    Stolen cell phone leads to arrest of Argentine pedophile

    Chaco Security Minister Gloria Zalazar said she saw the pictures

    A thief in the Argentine city of Resistencia, the capital of the northern province of Chaco, stole a cell phone containing child pornography and tipped the police, leading to the arrest of the alleged pedophile who owned it, it was reported this weekend.

  • Monday, August 21st 2023 - 09:58 UTC

    Brazilian entrepreneurs seek opportunities through BRICS

    We already have many industries in India, Alban explained

    Some 30 industrialists from South America's largest country are attending this week's Cebric's Encounter, a gathering of businesspeople parallel to the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) Summit in Johannesburg until Wednesday, Agência Brasil reported.

  • Monday, August 21st 2023 - 09:49 UTC

    Paraguay's new FM faced with further waterway negotiations

    Ramírez insisted all the necessary legal means would be used to solve the situation

    Paraguay's new Foreign Minister Rubén Ramírez met last week with representatives of the Paraguay-Parana Waterway Agreement Committee (CPTCP) to discuss the next steps toward the elimination of the toll of US$ 1.47 per ton of net register to river transport circulating through the “Port of Santa Fe-Confluencia” section unilaterally imposed by Argentina.

  • Monday, August 21st 2023 - 08:30 UTC

    Spanish Socialists closer to forming a new coalition government

    Francina Amengol was voted as the speaker of Spain's congress. Armengol is the former leader of the Balearic Islands region, where Catalan is widely spoken

    Spanish caretaker Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is closer to forming a new government following on the election of Francina Amengol as the speaker of Spain's congress. Armengol is the former leader of the Balearic Islands region, where Catalan is widely spoken, received a majority of 178 votes in the 350-seat chamber.

  • Monday, August 21st 2023 - 07:13 UTC

    India, third world's car maker, planning flashier vehicles for wealthier drivers

    As incomes rise, Indian drivers are opting for more expensive sport utility vehicles and sedans over hatchbacks

    World car manufacturers aim to turn India into an export hub as locally produced vehicles targeting wealthier drivers become more globally competitive. India, which overtook Japan as the world’s third-largest car market after the U.S. and China last year, saw a 14% uptick in auto exports in the year through March, with 662,891 units shipped. That is still well behind Japan’s figure of 3.37 million cars for the same period, but automakers in India see room for further growth.

  • Saturday, August 19th 2023 - 17:38 UTC

    Javier Milei plans to give a “prominent role” to Mauricio Macri in his future government

    Macri has approached the libertarian candidate, who often voices discontent with the political class, seeing them all, including the former President, as part of the same “caste.”

    The libertarian Javier Milei, the most voted presidential candidate in the last Primary, Open, Simultaneous and Mandatory (PASO) elections in Argentina, with about 30.90% of the votes, ratified that he maintains a strong dialogue with former President Mauricio Macri. So much so that he plans to offer him “a prominent role” if he were elected as the next national president, as he expressed in radio statements this week.

  • Saturday, August 19th 2023 - 10:55 UTC

    IMF holds talks with Argentina's opposition economists

    For the IMF the meetings were one of the Fund's regular and routine contacts with “a wide range of political and economic references”

    International Monetary Fund (IMF) specialists Friday held separate video conferences with economic teams from Argentina's two main contenders for the Oct. 22 presidential elections: La Libertad Avanza (LLA) and Juntos por el Cambio (JxC).