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Stories for February 2025

  • Wednesday, February 12th 2025 - 00:01 UTC

    Interesting ways of random number generation

    Photo: PxHere

    Random number generation is a key part of cybersecurity and encryption, and it is applied to many apps used in everyday life, both for business and leisure.

  • Tuesday, February 11th 2025 - 19:52 UTC

    Brazil: January's IPCA lowest since 1994

    The so-called Itaipu Bonus on electricity bills played a key role in achieving these figures, the IBGE explained

    Inflation last month in South America's largest country reached 0.16%, January's lowest since 1994, the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) announced Tuesday. The agency also noted that the main cause for such an unprecedented feat after the introduction of the real was the so-called Itaipu Bonus, a special discount on electricity bills benefitting some 78 million consumers. The Real Plan was implemented in July of that year.

  • Tuesday, February 11th 2025 - 19:26 UTC

    Taiwan largest market for Paraguayan pork exports

    Overall, Paraguayan pork shipments grew both in volume and revenue over the past year

    Taipei's Embassy in Asunción confirmed this week that Paraguay's pork exports to Taiwan grew by 108% last year, thus grabbing an 87% share of the South American country's shipments of the product, yielding revenues around US$ 29 million.

  • Tuesday, February 11th 2025 - 14:23 UTC

    Guterres wants Israel and Hamas to keep negotiating while Trump heralds hell in Gaza

    “We must avoid at all costs the resumption of hostilities,” Guterres said

    United Nations (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres Tuesday urged the terrorist group Hamas not to drop the plan to release Israeli hostages in exchange for convicted Palestinians. The Portuguese diplomat urged both sides of the conflict to avoid “hostilities” and carry on with the second stage of the ceasefire. Hamas had announced it would not abide by the deal after Israel allegedly violated the truce.

  • Tuesday, February 11th 2025 - 10:39 UTC

    First U.S.-Venezuela deportation flights begin under Trump-Maduro agreement

    Venezuelan deportees are loaded onto a plane, in an image shared by the White House, February 10, 2025.

    Two state-owned Conviasa planes departed from El Paso, Texas, on Monday, carrying the first group of Venezuelan deportees under the agreement between United States President Donald Trump and his counterpart, Nicolás Maduro. The operation comes just two weeks after Maduro met with Trump’s envoy, Richard Grenell, in Caracas—a meeting marked by the U.S. flag flying once again at Miraflores Palace.

  • Tuesday, February 11th 2025 - 10:11 UTC

    PAHO warns of outbrreak of dengue DENV-3 serotype

    In the first weeks of 2025, 23 countries and territories in the region reported a total of 238,659 cases

    The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Monday issued an epidemiological alert given the growing circulation of a different of dengue in the region. Cases of the DENV-3 serotype have been repported to be on the rise in Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico, and Peru.

  • Tuesday, February 11th 2025 - 09:48 UTC

    Milei cries foul play in live TV interview

    Also Monday, Milei replaced the official at the helm of the ANSES Pensions Bureau

    Argentine President Javier Milei said his interview with the local TV station A24 was sabotaged. “They tried to replicate the tricks of the 2023 campaign,” argued the wary head of state, who also sacked Argentina's Ambassador to the Organization of American States (OAS) after her father contended that the current exchange rate between the peso and the US dollar was 20% behind. The Libertarian leader said those remarks were “shameful and stupid.”

  • Tuesday, February 11th 2025 - 09:25 UTC

    Uruguayan industry might face encores of Yazaki case

    There is no developed country without a robust industry, García pointed out

    After the departure from the country earlier this month of Japanese autopart maker Yazaki, Uruguay's Chamber of Industries (CIU) President Leonardo García warned that the South American country's situation might encourage other foreign companies to follow suit.

  • Tuesday, February 11th 2025 - 09:17 UTC

    Petro off on Arabian trip despite internal turmoil

    Petro's entourage includes various members of cabinet whose resignations will presumably not be accepted

    Despite the political turmoil in his country, where he requested the resignation of every cabinet member, Colombian President Gustavo Petro left for the Arabic Peninsula to attend a series of international engagements, including the World Government Summit 2025 in the United Arab Emirates.

  • Tuesday, February 11th 2025 - 09:00 UTC

    German President announces South American tour

    Steinmeier will be attending Orsi's inauguration in Montevideo

    German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier will be touring Uruguay, Paraguay, and Chile between February 28 and March 8, it was announced Monday in Berlin. The head of state will attend Yamandú Orsi's inauguration in Montevideo on March 1. He is also scheduled to meet with Paraguay's Santiago Peña and Chile's Gabriel Boric Font.