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UK sends a 68-strong search and rescue team and £2 million in aid to Venezuela
The United Kingdom on Friday deployed a specialist search and rescue team of 68 people and announced an initial £2 million (about $2.7 million) in humanitarian funding to support the response to the earthquakes that devastated north-central Venezuela, where the latest of...
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Politics
- Venezuela's earthquake tests US assistance to the interim government it helped install
- Peru's electoral board rejects 23 more appeals by Sánchez's party as Fujimori's win holds
- Uruguay to deploy army armored vehicles to patrol high-crime Montevideo neighborhoods
- “Evidence” on Iranian nuclear weapons is about as reliable as Trump himself
Economy
- Bank of England keeps rate at 3.75%; inflation 2.8% but energy prices remain volatile
- Brazil softens Selic rate but concerns grow about fiscal stimulus on election year and impact of El Niño
- Fed keeps rates unchanged; new chairman Warsh anticipates FOMC summaries will be shorter…and to facts
- US-Iran memorandum sets Hormuz reopening, $300 billion reconstruction and sanctions relief
Energy & Oil
- Venezuela hands Shell a license for the cross-border Loran gas field shared with Trinidad
- Colombia's government confirms El Niño will be among the most intense since 1950
- Argentina warns it could 'fully exercise all actions' over Falklands oil drilling plans
- Venezuela moves to open its power sector to private investment after years of blackouts
Agriculture
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- Uruguay sheep produce exports from July25 to May26 reached US$ 281 million
- FAO food commodity prices in May showed increases in cereals, sugar and beef
- Uruguay captures 63% of Mercosur's annual rice quota to the European Union
Environment
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- Fishermen film the first seconds of Venezuela's earthquake from the sea off La Guaira
- Australia reports bird flu has killed 13.000 elephant seal pups in Heard and McDonald islands
- Uruguay to add AI to environmental controls and seeks a new environmental-crimes law
Entertainment
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- Messi becomes the outright all-time top scorer in World Cup history
- David Hockney, the artist who forced Britain to make room for color, joy and queerness
- With a historic Messi, Argentina begin their title defense by thrashing Algeria
Health & Science
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- Submarine Force Advisory Council flagged ARA San Juan concerns seven months before its sinking
- WHO warns of “magnitude and speed” of Ebola outbreak in Congo with 131 deaths and cases in Uganda
- Labs across three continents confirm passenger-to-passenger spread on hantavirus cruise
Tourism
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- Falklands, South Atlantic Airbridge will change UK terminal to East Midlands for four months
- Montevideo's Carrasco airport to fly to 15 destinations in June with 158 weekly flights
- Falklands reaffirms close relationship with IAATO; Marketplace Expo in USA
