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Leaders on Canada’s expanded G7 guest list to tackle climate, economy and security
Brandon Sun
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June 13, 2025
OTTAWA – Canada is bringing the world to Alberta for the G7 leaders summit in Kananaskis. As summit host, Prime Minister Mark Carney can invite any leaders he chooses — even those from countries outside the G7 club — as he attempts to shape...
Q&A with Francis David (Copec): “We have the largest fast-charging network in Latin America”
Petrol Plaza
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June 12, 2025
We speak with Francis David, Commercial Manager at Copec Voltex, about how the company is accelerating Chile’s e-mobility transition. From building Latin America’s largest fast-charging network to enabling more sustainable public transport, he...
Environmentalism for the rich
The News International
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As COP30 approaches in Brazil, there is growing disillusionment for drama dressed up as diplomacy. These conferences have become rituals. Polluters arrive with carefully worded pledges. Governments shake hands on stage but the real deals are made...
Productivity, boosting investments key to growing Caribbean economies, says IMF deputy
The Gleaner
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June 13, 2025
Caribbean countries need to digitalise government and banking services to reduce the cost of financing and doing business in the region, says Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund Dr Nigel Clarke. Noting that the region has...
Venezuela Proposes Strategic Redesign of OPEC: A Path Forward Amid Sanctions and Energy Transition
teleSUR
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Venezuela urges OPEC+ unity and new governance model to protect oil producers’ interests.Photo:Xinhua. June 12, 2025 Hour: 4:14 pm Venezuela urges OPEC+ to adopt a new strategy in response to sanctions, volatile prices, and the global energy...
Neworld Theatre’s Eyes of the Beast showcases the human pain of climate disaster
The Georgia Straight
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June 13, 2025
Get the best of Vancouver in your inbox, every Tuesday and Thursday. Sign up for our free newsletter. When one thinks about tragic plays, the mind typically wanders through Shakespeare’s canon. But while Eyes of the Beast doesn’t have any Ophelias...
Argentina’s Peronists Grapple with Renewal as Kirchner Faces Prison and Exile
LatinAmerican Post
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June 12, 2025
Argentina woke to court headlines that felt like an aftershock: Cristina Fernández de Kirchner—two-term president and national lightning rod—has been convicted of corruption and banned for life from public office. The ruling reshapes October’s...
Argentina’s Cultural Icon Mafalda Enters U.S. Market Amid Renewed Curiosity
LatinAmerican Post
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June 12, 2025
Sixty years after Quino first sketched a six-year-old who hates soup as much as she hates dictators, Mafalda Vol. 1 has reached Manhattan bookshelves in a new translation, inviting English-speaking readers to hear Argentina’s sharpest comic voice...
GreenSinnergy and Axens sign MoU to advance SAF projects in Argentina and Latin America
Decarbonisation Technology
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June 12, 2025
12-06-2025 GreenSinnergy GmbH, a company specialized in green project developments, and Axens, a global provider of technologies and services for the production of cleaner fuels, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to explore the...
Mexican Government Praised After Scientists Are Called In To Solve Nagging Beach Issue That Won't Go Away
The Travel
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June 12, 2025
Credit to Mexico as it continues to make key changes to improve long-term tourism. Tourists were recently rejoicing over the Mexican government's crackdown on excessive taxi fees. Several taxis were towed in an attempt to clear the airport of...
World watches as national climate goals loom over Cop30
The National News
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Leading figures have sounded the alarm as they gathered in the UAE ahead of the next major round of UN climate talks at Cop30, in Brazil. Speaking at an event in Abu Dhabi on Thursday, Majid Al Suwaidi, chief of climate investment vehicle,...
Weekly global protein digest: Egg prices in the US dropped 11% in May; Brazil faces mixed global response to bird flu case
The Poultry Site
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Livestock analyst Jim Wyckoff reports on global protein news Weekly USDA US beef, pork export sales Beef: Net sales of 15,300 MT for 2025 were up 71 percent from the previous week and 21 percent from the prior 4-week average. Increases primarily...
Why investors remain bullish on US renewables
The Financial Times
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June 12, 2025
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Caribbean-American Lawyers honor outstanding four
Caribbean Life - New York
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June 12, 2025
Justice Sylvia Hinds-Radix, left, presents Outstanding Public Servant Award to Assembly Member Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn, chair of the Brooklyn Democratic Party. Photo by Nelson A. King The Brooklyn-based Caribbean-American Lawyers Association,...
President Abinader travels to Brazil for Caribbean Summit
DR1
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After completing a busy agenda in France, President Luis Abinader is scheduled to travel to Brasilia, Brazil on 12 June 2025 to attend the Brazil-Caribbean Summit hosted by Brazil President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Friday and Saturday, 13-14...
Casa Mexicana chronicles the evolving iconography of Mexican homes
STIRworld
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The architectural narrative of Mexico is as rich and complex as its history. Casa Mexicana, presented by Thames & Hudson, is a decade-long project brought to life through the lens of London-based photographer Edmund Sumner and the words of design...
Huge Ice Falls at Argentina’s Perito Moreno Glacier Stir Awe, Concern
The Japan News
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June 13, 2025
Reuters TV via Reuters Ice breaks off Perito Moreno Glacier into Lake Argentina in Los Glaciares National Park in Argentina on April 21, in this combination of screengrabs from video. Reuters 10:54 JST, June 13, 2025 PERITO MORENO GLACIER,...
Why Brazil is too big and too important for Australia to ignore
Financial Review
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June 13, 2025
This November, around 50,000 people will converge on Belem – a small city at the mouth of the Amazon. Brazil is hosting the global COP30 climate change gathering this year – just as Australia hopes to do in Adelaide next year. Even Brazilians are...
UN decries erosion of Indigenous land rights in Brazil
JURIST
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June 12, 2025
A UN expert Wednesday reprimanded Brazil’s adoption of a controversial legal doctrine to limit the Indigenous People’s land rights. UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous Peoples Albert Kwokwo Barume reported that Brazil’s Senate has...
GreenSinnergy and Axens sign Memorandum of Understanding to advance SAF projects in Argentina and Latin America
Decarbonisation Technology
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June 12, 2025
12-06-2025 GreenSinnergy GmbH, a company specialized in green project developments, and Axens, a global provider of technologies and services for the production of cleaner fuels, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to explore the...