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  • Thursday, October 6th 2022 - 09:49 UTC

    “Click chemistry” developers awarded Nobel Prize

    “Click chemistry and bioorthogonal reactions have taken chemistry into the era of functionalism,” the jury explained

    Caroline R. Bertozzi and Barry Sharpless of the United States have been awarded the 2022 Chemistry Nobel Prize together with Denmark's Morten Meldal for making difficult things easy, it was announced.

  • Thursday, October 6th 2022 - 09:11 UTC

    Mortgage rates in UK on the rise, first time since 2014

    The interest rate on a typical two-year fixed rate mortgage has breached 6% for the first time in 14 years

    Mortgage rates in the UK have been going up for months, but recorded a sharp increase in response to the fall-out from the mini-budget nearly two weeks ago. First-time buyers and those looking to remortgage are affected.

  • Wednesday, October 5th 2022 - 13:48 UTC

    EU unifies chargers to USB-C format; bill becomes effective 2024

    The proposal has been discussed for years in the EU after consumers began to complain about the number of different chargers they needed for their devices

    As it had been anticipated the European Parliament approved a law on Tuesday that will require companies to ensure that every smart-phone, tablet and camera has the same charger.

  • Wednesday, October 5th 2022 - 13:30 UTC

    Guyana expected to deliver 810,000 bpd of light sweet crude by 2025

    Exxon, the operator who owns 45% of the block with Hess holding 30% and CNOOC the remaining 25%, is developing the Stabroek Block at a lightning pace.

    The former British colony of Guyana, to the north of Brazil and on the Caribbean has emerged as one of the continent’s top oil producers and is poised to become a leading global energy exporter. Since 2015 an Exxon Mobil-led consortium has made a swathe of high-quality oil discoveries in offshore Guyana in the 6.6-million-acre Stabroek Block, with the latest announced in July 2022. It is estimated those finds have uncovered nearly 11 billion barrels of recoverable oil resources in the Stabroek Block with further oil discoveries to come.

  • Wednesday, October 5th 2022 - 10:12 UTC

    EU-Mercosur agreement ratified in 2023? Uruguayan Foreign Minister sees it possible

    ”I think Brazil is going to be a protagonist. I believe that we have a window of opportunity”, Bustillo said.

    It's been more than two decades since the negotiations began. Yet, geopolitical conditions have never been favorable to ratify the agreement between the European Union (EU) and Mercosur. However, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Uruguay, Francisco Bustillo, said Tuesday during a press conference that there is “a window of opportunity” to ratify the accord between the European and South American blocs in 2023, during the pro tempore rulings of Spain and Brazil in each group.

  • Wednesday, October 5th 2022 - 09:56 UTC

    Cruise ship line announces no more COVID-19 protocols onboard

    Starting this 2022/23 season NCL will also offer a service linking Europe with South America, from Lisbon to Buenos Aires

    A leading cruise company has announced it will no longer be requiring passengers to be vaccinated against COVID-19 or to wear facemasks while onboard effective October 4.

  • Wednesday, October 5th 2022 - 09:53 UTC

    Nobel Physics Prize goes to 3 quantum mechanics researchers

    Quantum mechanics researchers from France, Austria, and the United States were awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell's inequalities and pioneering quantum information science,” it was announced in Stockholm by Sweden's Royal Academy of Sciences.

  • Wednesday, October 5th 2022 - 09:43 UTC

    Uruguayan exports slump for the first time in two years

    The decrease in September amounted to 0.2% if data from the duty-free trade zones are added

    Uruguayan overall exports have fallen in September of 2022 for the first time in almost two years. The country still shows an increase of 33.2% so far this year, according to the Union of Exporters of Uruguay's monthly report.

  • Tuesday, October 4th 2022 - 19:57 UTC

    Trump sues CNN for damages after derogatory remarks

    Trump also announced he would be filing lawsuits against other major media companies

    Former US President Donald Trump is seeking US$ 475 million in damages from CNN after the network referred to him as “Putin's lackey,” a “racist” and “Hitler,” among other epithets.

  • Tuesday, October 4th 2022 - 19:52 UTC

    North Korean missile flies over Japan scaring millions

    Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida called Tuesday's event “a barbaric act”

    A North Korean ballistic missile was reportedly fired early Tuesday over northern Japan, which triggered all alarms before falling into the Pacific Ocean. It was the first such firing since 2017.