Stories for 2025

Friday, November 28th 2025 - 10:10 UTC
Brazil launches yet another Scorpene submarine

Brazil's Navy celebrated a milestone in its naval modernization program (ProSub) this week with the ceremonial launch of the Almirante Karam (S43), the fourth Scorpene-class submarine built in the country under a strategic agreement with France.
Friday, November 28th 2025 - 08:32 UTC
After 24 years in power, Comrade Ralph loses St Vincent and the Grenadines elections

After 24 consecutive years in office, St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves -also known as Comrade Ralph for his leftwing stance- lost Thursday's elections to historian and political scientist Dr. Goodwin Friday of the center-right New Democratic Party (NDP).
Friday, November 28th 2025 - 03:30 UTC
The Next Generation of CRE: Exploring the Best Sites Like LoopNet for Buyers and Brokers

Commercial real estate sits in a moment of quiet upheaval. For a long time, investors, brokers, and owners worked within the limits of static portals and phone-heavy relationships, tracing opportunities through listings that rarely changed and networks that moved at their own pace. Today, a mix of new technology, shifting capital flows, and more data-driven habits is reshaping how people find and interpret property.
Friday, November 28th 2025 - 00:48 UTC
Standardizing Professional Development for Polar Guides, AECO/IAATO conference

Cruise Industry News is reporting that The Polar Tourism Guides Association (PGTA), is looking forward to an upcoming inaugural AECO/IAATO Field Staff Conference (FSC), designed for guides and expedition leaders (ELs) in Arctic and Antarctic expedition tourism.
Friday, November 28th 2025 - 00:45 UTC
Falkland Islands Holding losses narrow but weakness persists in Falklands

The Financial highlights of the Falkland Islands Holding Group, (FIH) indicate, despite a 4% increase in revenues to £18.9 million on the six months ending September 2025, that overall revenue was below prior year at £40.9 million (2024: £52.5 million).
Thursday, November 27th 2025 - 21:52 UTC
France's National Assembly stones EU-Mercosur FTA

The French National Assembly voted unanimously on Thursday to reject the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the European Union (EU) and the Southern Common Market (Mercosur), sending a strong, non-binding message to President Emmanuel Macron to withhold his approval.
Thursday, November 27th 2025 - 21:21 UTC
Venezuela revokes licenses from foreign airlines abiding by FAA warning

Venezuela's Chavista regime has revoked the operating concessions from the foreign carriers Iberia, Air Europa, TAP, Avianca, LATAM, Turkish, and GOL after they abided by the United States' Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) not to serve the South American country, given the ongoing military developments there, which pose a “potentially dangerous situation” in the Caribbean.
Thursday, November 27th 2025 - 09:39 UTC
Former Peruvian President Vizcarra sentenced to 14 years for bribery

Former Peruvian President Martín Vizcarra was sentenced on Wednesday to 14 years in prison and immediately taken into custody following a court ruling that found him guilty of bribery during his tenure as regional governor of Moquegua.
Thursday, November 27th 2025 - 09:28 UTC
Brazil approves locally produced dengue vaccine

Brazil's National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) has approved the final administrative step before the formal registration of the single-dose dengue vaccine developed by the São Paulo-based Butantan Institute for people aged 12 to 59, which protects against all four virus serotypes.
Thursday, November 27th 2025 - 09:17 UTC
Bolivia: DEA returning after 17-year absence

The Bolivian government confirmed this week that the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) will return to the country “very soon,” marking a significant change in the country's anti-drug policy since the agency was expelled in 2008 by former President Evo Morales.