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Saturday, December 2nd 2023 - 20:46 UTC
Some thoughts on climate change at the start of COP28 in Qatar

By Gwynne Dyer - At the opening of the COP28 global climate summit in Qatar, here are some thoughts about the state of climate science. I have interviewed at least sixty leading climate scientists in a dozen countries over the past three years.
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Saturday, December 2nd 2023 - 11:38 UTC
Foreign office minister Rutley in Falklands, “Islanders elected to belong to the British Family”

David Rutley, Foreign Office Minister for the Americas, Caribbean and Overseas Territories, is currently in the Falkland Islands where he arrived on Thursday to show UK' determination in upholding the right of self determination for the Islanders and their democratic decision to belong to the British Family.
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Saturday, December 2nd 2023 - 11:19 UTC
Spotify exiting Uruguay as of February

The global music and podcast streaming service Spotify Friday warned its Uruguayan users that the platform would be leaving the South American country shortly citing “drastic changes in the way music works” locally and that no new accounts can be opened after Dec. 28, it was reported in Montevideo.
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Saturday, December 2nd 2023 - 10:43 UTC
Mondino insists: Argentina not joining BRICS

Argentina's future Foreign Minister Diana Mondino confirmed this week that her country would not be joining the BRICS alliance on Jan. 1 as scheduled despite a personal letter from Chinese President Xi Jinping to President-elect Javier Milei.
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Saturday, December 2nd 2023 - 10:43 UTC
UAE, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Paraguay agree to promote bioceanic corridor

Argentina, Brazil, Chile, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Paraguay Friday agreed in Dubai on the sidelines of the United Nations Climate Summit (COP28) to “seek opportunities” for the highway due to link the port of Santos, in Brazil, with the Chilean ports of Arica and Iquique. Former Paraguayan President Mario Abdo Benítez has dubbed the initiative “the small Panama Canal.”
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Saturday, December 2nd 2023 - 08:14 UTC
“Falklands' status as a BOT has nothing to do with imperial gestures, but the wishes of its population”

The Falkland Islands’ status as a British overseas territory has nothing to do with imperial gestures, and everything to do with the wishes of the population, writes Dr. Nigel Haywood, in response to the article by Simon Jenkins, published in The Guardian and MercoPress a week ago.
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Friday, December 1st 2023 - 22:45 UTC
Brazil joining OPEC+ as of next year

Effective Jan. 1, 2024, South America's largest country will join the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Brazil's Minister of Mines and Energy Alexandre Silveira announced this week after participating virtually in a meeting with other colleagues from the bloc.
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Friday, December 1st 2023 - 10:17 UTC
Will Maduro attempt to take over Guyana's Esequibo? Brazil sends troops to the area

Brazil announced “intensified defensive actions” along its northern border fearing a possible invasion of Guyana by the dictatorial regime of President Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela. This Friday the UN International Court is expected to halt a referendum, on a disputed area between the two neighbors, which is seen as “an exercise in forced annexation” by Venezuela.
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Friday, December 1st 2023 - 09:55 UTC
Pedro Sánchez promises Paraguayan president to work for Mercosur deal finalizing

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez held a telephone conversation this week with Paraguayan President Santiago Peña during which he insisted on his country's commitment to finalizing the trade deal between the European Union and Mercosur while he held the rotating presidency of the northern alliance. The deal would unite 800 million people and represent a quarter of the world's Gross Domestic Product (GDP). If things go on as projected, Mercosur would obtain duty-free access for 93% of its exports to the EU, with a 10-year deadline to achieve this goal.
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Friday, December 1st 2023 - 09:46 UTC
Uruguayan national among those released by Hamas

Uruguayan national Shani Goren Horovitz was among the eight hostages released by the terrorist group Hamas Thursday in exchange for yet another batch of 30 prison inmates from Israeli jails, Qatari government sources confirmed.
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