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Peru's agro-exports totaled US$4.578 billion from January to May 2025
Andina
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July 11, 2025
"In these first months of the year, we have seen how almost all regions of the country have experienced significant growth in their exports, not only due to prices, but also to production volumes," she added. The minister of Foreign Trade and...
Panama’s President Mulino Travels to Argentina to Participate in the Mercosur Summit
Newsroom Panama
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July 2, 2025
President José Raúl Mulino will travel to Argentina this Wednesday to attend the 66th Summit of Heads of State of the Southern Common Market (Mercosur), where Panama will participate for the first time as an Associate State. As an Associate State,...
Do Payment Launches Its Own Pay-In Platform Across Latin America
The Fintech Times
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July 2, 2025
Peruvian fintech Do Payment has launched a new regional payment solution aimed at speeding up transactions and reducing reliance on intermediaries, starting with rollouts in Peru, Mexico and Ecuador. The company’s new pay-in service, branded as Do...
California weighs Amazon oil imports after Indigenous leaders raise alarm
Environmental Health News
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June 25, 2025
Ecuadorian Indigenous leaders recently traveled to California to protest Amazon crude imports, prompting state lawmakers to consider a resolution examining the environmental and human rights impact of this oil trade. Steven Grattan and Godofredo...
Methane Leaks from Fossil Fuels Hit Record Highs. And We’re Still Looking the Other Way
ZME Science
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July 3, 2025
Gas flaring at oil drilling site on the Napo river, Amazone, Ecuador. If you’ve ever looked at a flare burning brightly above a liquefied natural gas facility, it pretty much looks just like any other flame. But from above, satellites detect...
How tariffs on imported flowers are shaking up Maine's floral industry
Maine Public Broadcasting Network
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July 3, 2025
Beginning in early June, Ryan Ravenscroft spends a lot of time in his fields and greenhouse at Mare Brook Farm in Brunswick, cutting flower stems. He snips snapdragons, stocks, and delphiniums, placing them in 5 gallon buckets. The blooming...
Victoria’s Secret Model Reveals Exciting Baby News
The Daily Beast
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July 10, 2025
Victoria’s Secret model Jasmine Tookes announced that she is pregnant with her second child, a boy, on Instagram on Wednesday. Tookes, 34, told Vogue she planned the pregnancy every step of the way, but didn’t anticipate the physical toll it would...
Brazil To Prioritize Agreements As Mercosur Leader
MENAFN
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July 3, 2025
(MENAFN- Brazil-Arab News Agency (ANBA)) São Paulo – Upon assuming the pro tempore presidency of Mercosur at a summit on Thursday (3) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said that one of Brazil's priorities...
Debt, deficits and dilemmas
Weekly Cutting Edge
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July 1, 2025
Pakistan’s fiscal position reveals a precarious blend of mounting debt, dwindling export capacity, and deep-rooted structural flaws. With external debt servicing consuming nearly half of its export earnings and economic reforms hanging by a...
TymeBank founder warns minister about fee increase for ID verification
The Citizen (South Africa)
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June 24, 2025
Companies pay the department of home affairs to do ID verification when consumers, for example, want to pay with a card or apply for credit. TymeBank founder Coenraad Jonker has warned Minister of Home Affairs, Leon Schreiber, in an open letter...
The hidden cost of imported flowers
Ferntree Gully Belgrave Star Mail
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July 3, 2025
By Matilda McDermott While Australia’s best receive a beautiful bunch of blooms for all the greatest occasions, the looming secret about where they come from is unknown to most. Yet, it isn’t unknown to residents in Monbulk, as it’s where the...
He was caught smuggling over Mexico-US border, police say: His cargo was bound, sedated and duct-taped under dashboard
OregonLive.com
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July 10, 2025
A California man was charged Wednesday in San Diego federal court with attempting to smuggle 14 exotic toucans across the U.S.-Mexico border after the protected birds were found bound and hidden in his car’s dashboard. The driver, 35, was charged...
Investornewsbreaks Channelchek By Noble Highlights Aurania Resources (TSXV: ARU) As 2D Inversion Reveals Six Conductive Anomalies At Awacha
MENAFN
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July 1, 2025
(MENAFN- Investor Brand Network) Channelchek , a Noble Financial Group, Inc. product and service, reports that Aurania Resources (TSXV: ARU) identified six highly conductive anomalies at its Awacha porphyry copper target in Ecuador using updated...
Born In South America, Sold Worldwide: Inside The Global Rise Of Latin Cannabis Brands
Forbes
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SoulblimeCourtesy of Soulblime In Latin America, cannabis has long meant raw material: plants, labor, sunshine. A region to grow in, not to grow from. But something’s changing. In pockets of Chile and Argentina, a new generation of entrepreneurs...
I Ate Like a Tour de France Racer for an Entire Day—It Was the Dumbest Thing I’ve Done All Year
Bicycling
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July 10, 2025
Stretching 21 stages in the July summer heat, the men’s Tour de France presents many unique challenges for the 184 racers contesting the race’s 2025 edition. To survive a three-week Tour, riders and team staff put in countless hours training and...
China Meet Up 2025 returns to Guangzhou
Fresh Plaza
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July 3, 2025
China Meetup 2025, the mainland China-focused event linked to Asia Fruit Logistica, is set to return to Guangzhou from 8–9 September 2025. Organisers have confirmed broader international participation this year, with companies and delegates...
Elevan el caso de Glas ante la Corte IDH y piden medidas provisionales
KVIA - Texas
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July 2, 2025
Por Ana María Cañizares, CNN en Español Un día después de conocerse la nueva sentencia por corrupción contra el exvicepresidente de Ecuador Jorge Glas, que lo condena a 13 años más de prisión, la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos se...
3 IAF Jaguar fighter jet crashes in six months. How these accidents happened
The Week
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On Wednesday, a Jaguar aircraft of the Indian Air Force (IAF) crashed in Rajasthan's Churu district. While details of how the crash happened are yet to be known, reports have revealed that the aircraft crashed in an agricultural field in Bhanoda...
Linchpin Caicedo’s ban leaves big hole for Chelsea in Club World Cup test
The Guardian
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July 3, 2025
Moisés Caicedo was still going strong. There were 108 minutes on the clock at the Bank of America Stadium – not taking into account the lengthy weather delay – when the Chelsea midfielder won possession in Benfica’s half, found Cole Palmer and...
Man charged with smuggling bound, sedated toucans across U.S.-Mexico border
The San Diego Union-Tribune - California
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July 10, 2025
A San Ysidro man was charged Wednesday in San Diego federal court with attempting to smuggle 14 exotic toucans across the U.S.-Mexico border after the protected birds were found bound and hidden in his car’s dashboard. The driver, 35, was charged...