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Montevideo, October 23rd 2025 - 01:42 UTC

Stories for August 2025

  • Wednesday, August 6th 2025 - 08:52 UTC

    Children's vaccination stagnating worldwide

    According to the World Health Organization (WHO), in 2024, around 20 million children worldwide were unvaccinated or incompletely vaccinated

    A new study supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, recently published in The Lancet, showed childhood vaccination coverage stagnated worldwide and even declined since 2010, which was made worse by the Covid-19 pandemic. The research, which analyzed data from 204 countries between 1980 and 2023, found that while there was sustained growth in vaccination rates during the 1980s and 1990s for diseases like diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, measles, and polio, this progress has now stalled.

  • Wednesday, August 6th 2025 - 07:28 UTC

    Argentina accepts Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies, five remaining for entry into force

    Ambassador Lunazzi: This firm commitment to fairer and freer trade not only strengthens our economy, but also protects the marine resources in the South Atlantic

    Argentina deposited its instrument of acceptance of the Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies on 22 July. Ambassador Gustavo Lunazzi presented Argentina’s instrument of acceptance to WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. Just five more acceptances are needed for the Agreement to enter into force.

  • Wednesday, August 6th 2025 - 07:24 UTC

    Brazilian corporations consolidate a leading share in the global meat market

    MBRF is ready to become one of the world’s leading meat processors but still has to overcome possible objections about market dominance

    Two major Brazilian corporations’ shareholders, from Marfrig (MRFG3), and BRF (BRFS), approved on Tuesday the proposed merger between the two global food processors, the firms said in a joint securities filing.

  • Wednesday, August 6th 2025 - 07:21 UTC

    Falklands congratulates RFA on its 120th anniversary: Be it war or natural disasters, they are always there

    RFA Tidespring is currently deployed in the Indo-Pacific as part of the Carrier Strike Group 25’s eight-month mission.

    The Falkland Islands Government Office in London, FIGO, has wished the RFA.(Royal Fleet Auxiliary) Headquarters a very happy 120th birthday, The wishes in the name of all the Falklands, remember RFA played a crucial role to the Liberation of the Islands in 1982.

  • Wednesday, August 6th 2025 - 07:20 UTC

    Falklands Government opens search for future Telecommunications provider

    FIG is seeking information in preparation for a potential tender (or licensing) process to design and carry out operations and future development of telecommunication and media services

    Following approval by Executive Council, the Falkland Islands Government (FIG) has opened an international search for future providers of telecommunications. This work, which relates to the period after the end of Sure’s current exclusive license, is being led by FIG’s appointed consultants, Cambridge Management Consulting.

  • Tuesday, August 5th 2025 - 21:46 UTC

    Ecuador's Constitutional Court blocks Noboa's initiatives

    The ruling is temporary, pending a final decision on the matter, so Noboa still stands a chance of applying them at a later time

    Ecuador's Constitutional Court has provisionally suspended several articles from three laws championed by President Daniel Noboa: the Organic Intelligence Law, the National Solidarity Law, and the Organic Law on Public Integrity. These norms had faced constitutional challenges from various organizations and opposition groups who argued that they violated fundamental rights.

  • Tuesday, August 5th 2025 - 21:26 UTC

    Uruguay's population projected to decline over time

    A smaller population could decrease housing demand in major cities like Montevideo

    A study released this week by Uruguay's National Institute of Statistics (INE) showed that the South American country's population will have dwindled by nearly half a million people by 2070, falling from approximately 3.49 million to 3 million, due primarily to a low birth rate, an aging population, and a net loss to emigration.

  • Tuesday, August 5th 2025 - 12:40 UTC

    Japanese team audits Paraguayan beef production

    Paraguay's beef exports are expanding rapidly

    A team from Japan's Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries is in Paraguay to audit the South American country's meat production until August 8, with visits to various facilities and regional offices.

  • Tuesday, August 5th 2025 - 11:26 UTC

    Brazil turns to tea-drinking China to cushion 50% tariffs on coffee by US

    Per capita coffee consumption in China is still only 16 cups per year, compared to the global average of 240

    Amid new 50% tariffs on Brazilian coffee exports to the United States, China has authorized 183 Brazilian companies to export coffee to its domestic market. This move is seen as a way for Brazil to offset the economic impact. Jorge Viana, head of ApexBrasil, the country’s export promotion agency, called the agreement a “milestone for Brazil’s coffee sector.”

  • Tuesday, August 5th 2025 - 11:16 UTC

    BP announces huge discovery off Rio de Janeiro

    However, production could take years to begin

    BP, the British oil and gas company, has announced its largest oil and gas discovery in 25 years, in the Boomerang Field, an area over 300 square kilometers within Brazil's Santos Basin, roughly 404 kilometers off the coast of Rio de Janeiro.