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São Paulo stocks jump 8% and the real firms after Bolsonaro's first-round win
Brazilian markets rallied sharply on Monday in response to the first round of the presidential election, in which Senator Flávio Bolsonaro finished ahead of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, contrary to what polls had predicted. The São Paulo Stock Exch...
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Politics
- Halliburton rules out Sea Lion after Argentina raised criminal and civil enforcement
- Brazil heads to the polls without a single debate between Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro
- British foreign secretary reiterates support for the Falklands in meeting with Cheryl Roberts
- British-Iranian man arrested over the RAF Fairford incident
Energy & Oil
- Uruguay's foreign minister separates the “invaded island” from the money extracted from the Falklands
- London rejects Argentina's arbitration and questions its “reliability” as a partner
- Milei orders arbitration proceedings against the UK over the Sea Lion project
- Falklands government extends all offshore oil licences for five years
Agriculture
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- Germany, extreme hot summer ripens grapes faster and advances wine harvest several weeks
- The US waives beef tariffs for Brazil and Paraguay, but not for Argentina and Uruguay
- Wildfires in Spain and France hit the world's two largest wine-growing nations
Environment
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- Falklands’ stamps and the story of the only reindeer world population unaffected by the Chernobyl radioactive fallout
- Argentine Patagonia national park will twin with a Welsh similar of Snowdonia
- WMO forecasts a very strong El Niño peaking at year's end and lasting into February 2027
Entertainment
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- Drums in his neighbourhood and a wake in parliament: Uruguay bids farewell to Ruben Rada
- Specialist outlets estimate GTA VI absenteeism could cost the US a billion dollars
- Ruben Rada, who took Uruguayan candombe to international audiences, dies at 83
Health & Science
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- Norway prepares to open The Whale Museum, 190 miles north of the Arctic Circle
- A personalized mRNA therapy passes a phase 3 melanoma trial for the first time
- Australia launches program to vaccinate colonies of little penguins against avian influenza
Tourism
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- Latin American airports will need US$178 billion to nearly double their traffic
- A port dispute in Montevideo blocks a second ferry operator on the Buenos Aires route
- Venezuela's main airport reopens with temporary modules two months after the earthquake
