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Wednesday, November 20th 2024 - 09:44 UTC
Milei meets with IMF Manager in Rio

Argentine President Javier Milei met Tuesday in Rio de Janeiro on the sidelines of the G20 Summit with International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva to negotiate a new disbursement from the credit agency to boost the South American country's coffers. Also participating in the meeting were Ministers Gerardo Werthein (Foreign Affairs) and Luis Toto Caputo (Economy), among other officials
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Tuesday, November 19th 2024 - 21:15 UTC
Paraguayan President says he is okay after Monday's hospitalization

Paraguayan President Santiago Peña Tuesday shared a video message on social media saying he had fully recovered from Monday's health crisis that had him hospitalized while attending the G20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro.
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Tuesday, November 19th 2024 - 10:55 UTC
Rio G20 Declaration signed – Argentina adheres only partially

G20 Leaders Monday signed at the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro a joint 85-item declaration in which they addressed the world's current challenges. However, Argentine President Javier Milei announced he would not be endorsing the so-called 2030 Agenda goals.
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Tuesday, November 19th 2024 - 09:47 UTC
US to release aid package for Brazilian Amazon

The United States offered an aid package for environmental actions in the Brazilian Amazon to address climate change, it was announced Monday during President Joseph Biden's visit to Manaus as part of his journey to the country for the G20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Agencia Brasil reported. The first trip by a sitting US president to the region marked celebrations of 200 years of diplomatic relations between the two countries.
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Tuesday, November 19th 2024 - 09:38 UTC
Ortega discloses blueprints for projected Nicaragua Canal

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Monday launched the blueprints for a 445-kilometer long canal through his country linking the Caribbean SSea with the Pacific Ocean, which would be an alternative to the existing transoceanic path in Panama, where the United States has a key say.
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Tuesday, November 19th 2024 - 08:46 UTC
Global warming and the burning issue of money

By Gwynne Dyer - It's hard to imagine a less plausible venue for the annual UN-sponsored conference on climate than the dictatorial petro-state of Azerbaijan. Baku, the capital, has a walled medieval center that's worth a day or two, but offshore the shallow Caspian Sea is littered with a century's worth of old and new oil wells.
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Tuesday, November 19th 2024 - 08:32 UTC
Falklands MLA Spink present at the Joint Ministerial Council in London with other OTs democratically elected

Roger Spink, member of the democratically elected Legislative Assembly from the Falkland Islands, is taking part in the annual Joint Ministerial Council at the Foreign Office in London, next to representatives from twelve other Overseas Territories.
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Monday, November 18th 2024 - 21:59 UTC
Argentina becomes newest founding member of Lula's alliance against hunger

Javier Milei's Argentina became after last-minute negotiations the 82nd country to join the Global Alliance against Hunger and Poverty, Brazil's initiative launched during the two-day G20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro. With Buenos Aires' decision, no G20 country stayed out of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's partnership which is also made up of the African Union and the European Union, in addition to 9 financial institutions, 24 international organizations, and 31 philanthropic and non-governmental entities, totaling 148 founding members.
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Monday, November 18th 2024 - 14:51 UTC
Lavrov arrives in Rio for G20 Summit as world tensions escalate

Russia’s Foreign Ministry Sergey Lavrov arrived Sunday in Rio de Janeiro to head his country's delegation attending the two-day G20 Summit starting Monday in the former Brazilian capital while President Vladimir Putin stayed in Moscow as winds of World War III blew again during the weekend after US President Joseph Biden gave his nod to Kyiv using US-built missiles.
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Monday, November 18th 2024 - 14:15 UTC
“F**k you,” Brazilian First Lady tells Elon Musk

During a G20 social event this past weekend, Brazilian First Lady Janja da Silva cursed against billionaire Elon Musk in an outburst that made waves ahead of the world's leader's Summit starting Monday in Rio de Janeiro. President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's wife was speaking through a microphone to an audience when a ship horn nearby interrupted her: “It’s Elon Musk,” she said. “I’m not afraid of you, f**k you, Elon Musk,” she added.
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