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Caribbean Clarity: How Antigua.news Surprised Europe’s Financial Media
South Africa Today
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July 30, 2025
When the Credit Suisse debacle shook European markets, few expected the most penetrating insights to come from a digital newsroom based not in London or Zurich—but on the island of Antigua. Yet Antigua.news, a publication founded by Dario Item,...
Why Latin America Has Become a Goldmine for Indian Deep‑Tech Startups
Punekar News
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July 30, 2025
New Delhi / Latin America, 30th July 2025: Indian deep‑tech startups are increasingly turning to Latin America for growth, funding, and global expansion. The region’s fast‑growing deep‑tech ecosystem, coupled with strong government support and...
Mexico’s rising mercury trade fuels toxic gold mining in Latin America: Report
Mongabay
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July 30, 2025
High prices and weak oversight have turned Mexico into one of the main suppliers of mercury for gold mines across Latin America, according to an Environmental Investigation Agency report. Despite signing an international treaty to combat mercury...
Attempts to seek 'Taiwan independence' through provocative acts are doomed to fail, says FM on Lai reportedly delaying Latin America trip after 'transit' plan rejected by US
Global Times
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Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun When asked to comment on reports that Taiwan regional leader Lai Ching-te has delayed his planned trip to Latin America to visit so-called "diplomatic allies" after the US rejected his planned...
Hunger declines in Latin America, but sharp disparities remain
United Press International (UPI)
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In the central kitchen of the World Food Program in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, employees work to combat hunger by preparing meals for refugee camps, where thousands of families await food that is sometimes their only meal of the day....
Shantytowns and favelas: a century of urban informality in Latin America
Latinoamerica21
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July 30, 2025
The 1925 Tenants’ Strike was the first major social crisis of the 20th century in Panama. This strike emerged due to the overcrowding, precarious living conditions, and lack of housing alternatives faced by thousands of former Canal workers in the...
Tsunami nears South America after Russia earthquake
Deutsche Welle
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Skip next section Chile: Easter Island evacuates coastal areas 07/30/2025July 30, 2025Chile: Easter Island evacuates coastal areas Authorities in Chile issued evacuation orders for the coastal areas of Easter Island in the wake of tsunami warnings...
Tsunami Alerts in Latin America After 8.8 Quake in Russia
Tico Times
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July 30, 2025
An 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck off Russia’s Far East coast on Wednesday, one of the most powerful quakes ever recorded, triggering tsunamis with waves up to four meters high and evacuation alerts from the United States to Colombia. Russian...
Largest solar PV site in Central America and the Caribbean now online
Energy Knowledge - Energy Institute
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Cotoperí Solar has begun feeding renewable electricity into the grid of La Romana province, Dominican Republic Photo: Acciona Energía Located in the La Romana province, the 163 MWp Cotoperí project is comprised of three solar plants that will...
ISA to Host Key Solar Energy Summit in Chile for Latin America and Caribbean
Energetica India
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July 30, 2025
The International Solar Alliance will convene its Seventh Regional Committee Meeting in Santiago to accelerate solar adoption, foster innovation, and mobilise finance across Latin America and the Caribbean. July 30, 2025. By EI News Network The...
World Free Zones Organisation to host its 12th World Congress in Panama City next year
Eye of Riyadh
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The World Free Zones Organisation (World FZO) announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the government of Panama to host the 12th annual World FZO’s World Congress in the country’s capital, Panama City, in July 2026. The...
World Liberty Financial invests $10 million in Falcon Finance
Cryptopolitan
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July 30, 2025
Donald Trump-backed DeFi project, World Liberty Financial (WLF), has provided Falcon Finance with a $10 million strategic investment. The investment seeks to advance integrations between WLFI’s USD1 stablecoin and Falcon’s synthetic dollar...
Global Hunger Fell Overall in 2024, but Rose in Africa and Western Asia as Climate and Conflict Threaten Progress: UN Report
EcoWatch
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July 30, 2025
Poor children in India hold their hands out for food. hadynyah / E+ / Getty Images Why you can trust us Founded in 2005 as an Ohio-based environmental newspaper, EcoWatch is a digital platform dedicated to publishing quality, science-based content...
Global South Media Forum opens in Caracas
Prensa Latina - Cuba
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July 30, 2025
Sponsored by the Venezuelan Ministry of People’s Power for Foreign Affairs, the meeting seeks to foster plural and inclusive discourse, so more than 2,000 people will participate via videoconference. “Faced with the media blockade, one of the most...
World Bank: New Financing for Belize
I News Cayman
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July 30, 2025
Washington, D.C., July 29, 2025 — The World Bank Group’s Board of Executive Directors has approved a US$20 million Development Policy Credit with a Catastrophe Deferred Drawdown Option (Cat-DDO) for Belize. The operation provides emergency funding...
Hunger rises in Africa and Western Asia despite global decline: report
China Daily Global
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By Edith Mutethya in Nairobi, Kenya | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2025-07-30 16:28 Women work in a field in Monguno, Borno state, Nigeria, July 5, 2025. [Photo/Agencies] Hunger continued to rise in most sub-regions of Africa and Western Asia,...
Mikaili Charlemagne Secures Prestigious World Aquatics Scholarship
The Voice
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July 30, 2025
Sponsored | Article continues below Mikaili Charlemagne [photo credit : SLAF]Saint Lucian national swimmer Mikaili Charlemagne has been awarded a World Aquatics Scholarship, a testament to her unwavering dedication and outstanding performance in...
World Reuters Chile's coastal erosion could erase 10 beaches within a decade, scientists say
Yahoo News
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RENACA, Chile (Reuters) -Chile's central and southern coastlines are facing erosion that could cause at least 10 beaches to disappear within a decade, according to a team of scientists in the South American country, which stretches for several...
Leading artists take the catchy bachata beat global
DR1
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Wilfredo José Burgos Matos, a professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at Lehman College (CUNY), writes for The Conversation about how bachata has gone in just decades from being a grassroots underground dance in the Dominican Republic to...
Russia earthquake: A look at tremors that shook the world
Mid Day Mumbai
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July 30, 2025
The powerful 8.8 magnitude temblor set off a series of warnings in Hawaii, North and Central America and Pacific islands south towards New Zealand, with officials warning that the potential tsunami danger may last for more than a day Emergency...